-- continued from above-

4) Now this is the big one, Is climate change an the biggest challenge we face today: Absolutely, NOT!.
The impact of climate change is barely worth mentioning compared to issues that really do/or potentially could have an impact of the health, wealth and wellbeing of us humans. For example, some of issues that really matter are: the state of the world's economy especially the price of energy (this is the biggest one cause this directly affects the price of food in the very short term- the vast majority humanity can live with the world having a few extra hot days- but they can't live more than a month without affordable food), access to cheap/free quality drinking water, global outbreaks of disease affecting humans that are not currently widespead/present but have devastating potential such as Bird Flu, Ebola, etc..., global outbreaks of existing or new diseases affecting food supply (especially cereal crop diseases), currently widespead diseases and illness such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, etc..., the political stability of the world, the rise of super-human AI technology (this is potentially a much larger problem than most realize but is at least a couple of decades away), access to quality education, and the list goes on and on. Compared to these immediate and near-term very real threats the decades-to-eventuate-possible-hypothetical threats associated with climate change are insignificant.

' Move on, runner. The world has indeed woken up to your hoax,'
yeah Aiden like the hoax of the idiotic Greens/Labour who refused to build dams in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane because they would never fill up. They will have the nerve to blame the next drought on gw. You guys are a circus however its not funny how the tax payer has been dudded for billions from the charlotans involved.

I have been trying to work out why climate deniers are so vociferous.
I came on some research about this and one reason could be that their brains are not wired to cope with the fact that we are all going to die eventually. so they rationalise by denying AGW.
“Climate change is a threat that our evolved brains are uniquely unsuited to do a damned thing about.”
Why Our Brains Can’t Understand Climate Change
http://www.earthintransition.org/2015/11/why-our-brains-cant-understand-climate-change/

It may be interesting to see how many deniers have sea-level house mortgages (Latin "dead security"). However MAD nukes are in the minds of most Yanks and Russians , thermo warming devices. Tobacco fuming is well known and lead petrol brain-death.
ahh....lead petrol on highways near towns..?

runner, you seem to have trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. The Greens and Labor opposed some dams for environmental reasons (such as the one that would've wrecked the unique ecosystem of the Mary River in Queensland) and some dams have been rejected for economic reasons (they worked out more expensive than desal). But I can't recall any dams being rejected by Labor or the Greens (or indeed any politicians) on the grounds that they'd never fill up. And the claim is highly suspicious, for if hydrologists thought the dams would never fill up, they wouldn't bother putting them to the politicians.

Your claim also bears an uncanny resemblance to the false accusation that Tim Flannery had declared it would never rain again (when what he actually said was that the rain may not come, and it was clear from the context that he meant "before the dams are empty" rather than "ever".

And considering that the droughts are caused by El Niño events, and global warming increases the frequency and severity of those, I think it's quite reasonable to blame the next drought on gw.

Robert ,

Ever thought of offering the bet using a data set other than GISS eg UAH?

Because had you done so your escrow account would now be empty.