climate change is not man made - brainwashed masses

AGREED.... even if we done EVERYTHING that was needed plus tap dance whilst balancing spinning plates, it would only make a 2% difference to our predicament.

You might find that a 2% difference can be a very significant figure.

thanks for your well thought out and scientific analysis zorro, but I think I'll stick with the expert view thanks 

zorro another knock down ginger poster once he's done with the opening post he's done

Science moved on since the days of 3 tv channels

Besides, whether global warming does for us or not, the escalating drain on resources caused by spiralling population growth will ensure the planet is impotent before very long (happily prob not before we've popped us clogs  )

There have been no scientific advances for at least 40 years.

recently (last ten years )the sun has been relatively inactive with a maunder minimum argument introduced  but even then the co2 evidence would appear pretty strong.
Even though the sun has been at its most inactive last year was allegedly one of the hottest (warmest) for a wee while .
Sea temps also suggest a recent warming and world  weather patterns have changed ,of course weather and climate and temps have forever been changing but the recent topsy turvy   changes have happened quickly with rain patterns now unpredictable .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere

There been much evidence  presented that co2 has markedly  increased in the last  century or and appears this is pretty much accepted to be the root  cause ,  would also appear this coincided with the industrial revolution .The sun is still to be fully understood and exactly what effect it does have on the short term  weather  ,if it is at a maunder min or even just at a lull or low it does not explain last years reasonably good weather imo .
Weather patterns have changed and not sure they are being understood fully never mind what the causes are but will have a pound Co2 is causing heating and this is the reason ,exactly why the co2 has increased is the debate but its all a cluster**** tbh .
Although ice is melting at one pole it is increasing at the other .The biggest effect on "ever changing climate and  weather" has been the internet imo .

All them northerners with coal fires, and posh fackers with wood burning stoves.

All that heat has got to the Arctic Circle and made a hole in the Ozone Layer. 

Save the planet by putting on fur coats indoors and leave the heating off.

I KNOW AN ESKIMO WHO CAN PROOVE IT,EVERYTIME HE LIGHTS A FIRE IN HIS IGLOO,PART OF HIS SNOW ROOF MELTS

I fancy this next ten years of rising temperatures.

I'll have a bit of that.

you'll be warm where you're going and I don't mean bendidorm

We've not had a Climate Change Fred for weaks..
this won could run and run like detergents down a river!

Brilliant in that he's read different web-pages and prefers to believe everything without question - like a brainwashed sheep :)

Not really sure what a brainwashed sheep is? Have they been told they are an ostrich. But no, although I do look at the internet, I prefer accredited news and science sites to ones where the font is large blue and often flashing, there is advert for life-crystals in the corner, and a link to something which you suspect is going to anti-semetic but really don't to risk seeing.

More importantly though, man's impact on the environment was the subject of my university degree. You can read it if you like, there's a copy in the library. Climate change was a big deal amongst geography academics back then, not least because even though it had already been widely observed and the consequences potentially catastrophic, politicians were reluctant to do anything about it, because telling people something they don't want to hear is rarely a vote winner.

20 years on and we've made some progress. We can't relax though, because there are always going to be morons willing to believe what they want to believe, as opposed to what these 'so-called experts' or, as a sane person would call them, experts, tell them.

It would vary. Plenty of research funded by vested interests, including the incredibly powerful lobbies for say the automotive industries, who would want to pretend man-made climate change is not happening. And yet even they have had to accept it.

Well, no, just given little credence as there is such overwhelming evidence of it.

Probably the most notorious.

http://sumofus.org/campaigns/gm-heartland

What is the proof that the minor change to world temperatures over the last century is mad made?
Surely if the evidence was there it would be published for all to see and put an end to the scepticism over it?

Why would the Chinese or the Americans want to suppress something that is claimed will be disastrous to the world?

Surely they're simply not convinced because of the lack of tangible evidence to back up the claims.

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No tangible evidence then?

Shame about that.