"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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"Alan Gardiner" wrote in message
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Whilst there probably are people in global warming denial, there are
others
who are perfectly willing to accept that global warming is happening,
but
doubt just how much impact humanity is having on the process.

Jim Webster



I go along with the idea that warming is taking place but I am sceptical
with regard to the assertions that humans are entirely responsible. The
warming period at the moment is just part of natures processes just like
the
one in the early middle ages which allowed grapes to be grown in Scotland.
There was a huge fig orchard in Canterbury which had an abundance of figs
on
it.
We have had much warmer periods than the present in the past 1,000
years
let alone 2,000 and there was little if any man made activities around
then.
The hysterics over the average temperature figures are damned
ridiculous. When CET figures commenced in 1659 we are going into, "the
little ice age" which lasted well into the middle of the 19th century.
When
I hear so called scientists saying for example that this year 2004 will be
the fourth warmest on record, for God sakes so what.
With regard to the use of fossil fuels, technology will ensure that
we
move on to less polluting and easier to process fuels as part of the
natural
process of human science.
Let it not be forgotten that the stone age did not end due to a
shortage
of stones. The oil age will not end due to a shortage of oil either.

Gavin.


Gavin, can you point me to ANY reputable scientist who thinks that we're
'entirely responsible' for the warming we've seen? Fact is...there isn't
one!

As to future warming, I think it's fair to say we are having an increasing,
and probably dominating, effect on the global climate. (and you can't say
'We have had much warmer periods than the present in the past 1000 years'
either because you simply don't know with enough certainty to state that. We
*might* have had warmer periods, but the evidence is it's unlikely, *more
likely* is that this is the warmest period here this milennia.

BTW there's no need to get hysterical about the CET . Fact is this year
will most likely be the fouth warmest since at least 1659.

However, I do think you are right about oil. Oil isn't going to run out, if
it gets scarce the price will rise.