Wibble wrote:



It is the most vociferous school of thought but it is in no way a
scientifically proven fact. An important matter but often overlooked.

So far, both sides of the GW debate have a lot of measurements but not
enough to establish, once and for all and beyond all doubt that "GW" is
or is not part of a long term cycle.

An analysis of Global temperature cycles based on 700,000 years of data,
published thirty years ago, suggested that we wouldn't reach the
temperatures reached in the last peak of global warming in the 1940s until
about 2030. We passed that peak in the late 1970s and are now about 0.6
DegC above it.

We'll never reach a stage where everyone will accept AGW as fact, much as
we'll never convince everyone that the Earth is not flat.

Please note, however, that "An Inconvenient Truth" is science-based
whereas Intelligent Design (ID) is religion cloaked as science.

Global warming, by equal measure, could also be described as religion
cloaked as science (sic) but I fear that the hot air generated by the
debate will do more damage to the planet than China, India, America and
Russia combined.

AGW has over a century of scientific research behind it. The forecasts for
the global warming were made over thirty years ago. These forecasts are now
being proved.


--
Graham Davis
Bracknell
It was raining cats and dogs and I fell in a poodle. - Chic
Murray(1919-1985)