Mr Opinion, I can't imagine how anyone could be so proud of having spent years with goobly gook studies so they can pretend they have a meaningful discipline.

Having said that would you mind not telling us you are an environmental sociologist in every post. I find the belief that such a description is meaningful quite nauseating.

Dear Hasbeen,

You let me refer to myself as an Environmental Sociologist and I'll let you refer to yourself as a Plastic Engineer. Fair enough?

If you had studied humanities instead of plastic engineering at uni you would know how to use English correctly.

'1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s: Killer Bees!
But I’m sure they are right this time !'

ha ha the science is settled.

Misopinionated,

Engineers tend to work with reality, real problems in the real world. They have to be cautious and careful about putting their plans into practice. Their responsibility is to be rigorous about what counts as evidence and what is instead hysterical BS.

No, I'm not an engineer, but a vagrant social scientist, with a special interest in Indigenous education over fifty years. So I know barely any more about the environment or climate than you do, i.e. bugger-all.

I look forward to the distant time when you write something meaningful beyond juvenile trolling.

Joe

Please lets leave man made climate change for another thread
I do want to know how others think, how will the current change effect us
Yes food growth will be far better in most or should I say some parts of the world
Far worse in others, yet over all it should be better
Never had a doubt the climate is changing
And getting hotter/colder/ more savage extremes
Is this drought just another in a country known for them
Or will this change bring a dryer country as standard
Will more rain fall in some parts we now can not grow food in? maybe so
Mr O what university did you gain your degree in?
I gained my education after failing at school, oh other than collecting the milk bottles after they had been emptied and burning the schools rubbish in the incinerator
But quite happy to have made it in the university of life, best school in the world

Dear Loudmouth,

In response to your remarks above: (1) I am also an engineer. (2) I am also an environmental sociologist researching the relationship between people and environment and subsequently I have developed a substantial knowledge of the environment. (3) What are your degrees?