"Alastair" wrote in message
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On Mar 12, 11:52 pm, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7940532.stm

Can these scientists be making this stuff up, or is it really happening?

Scientists are always conservative in their predictions, especially
after getting the impending ice age wrong. That article is saying
that even they are admitting that their previous estimates were
conservative. But they are still scientists and still conservative.
What is happening is even worse than they describe!

So many conflicting opinions on this subject I end up dreading making
a comment one way or the other without getting shot down in flames by
one camp or another. I have much time for Joe *******i, but he's doesn't
beleive any of it!

Well since I was critcised for making personal remarks about Dr Vicky
Pope I won't use the obvious pun in the case of Joe. However, no
matter how much you respect him, do you reall think his views should
carry more weight than those of:

Professor Sir John Houghton, Professor Sir David King, Professor John
Mitchell, Professor Chris Rapley, Professor Peter Cox, Dr Tim Palmer
FRS, and the American Professor Stephen Schneider?

See Royal Meteorlogial Society web site
http://www.rmets.org/video/talking-heads/rmets.html

Or the Royal Society web pages at :
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=4607

The overwhelming majority of respected scientists are warning about
the dangers of climate change. Why listen to an obscure American
weatherman?

Personally, although climate change is a natural thing, it's a case of
whether this bought is self induced or not?

All climate change in the past was natural, and was often associated
with changes in the level of carbon dioxide. We have increased the
level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by a third over the last 150
years. That is not natural, and although the consequences will be
natural: heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires, melting glaciers, sea
level rises, etc. their cause will not. It is man made, caused by
burning fossil fuels that took 500 million years to form and half of
which we have already destroyed.

Cheers, Alastair.
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I am staggered that people have so much respect for Joe. His latest bitter
March hasn't arrived the same as any of his other dire winter warnings. I
tend to agree with the "proper" scientists but am quite happy if they later
discover there were other factors. Why do people hold so much hate for their
factual measurements? If it pointed to cooling down they would happily say
so.
Dave