"Tiny" wrote in message
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On 9 Apr, 14:29, "Fred X" wrote:

Don't worry - one big rock or comet from space will sort out all our
global warming problems.

The year: 2036

The asteroid: 99942 Apophis

At the moment, the chances of it hitting us is around 1 in 48,000. However,
when you think that the chances of dying in an aircrash is around 1 in
355,000 it puts it into perspective. Scientist will know more when it does
its 2029 flypast when it is calculated to be only 5 earth distances away.

MC

On Apr 9, 8:31*am, Angus Rodgers wrote:

Paul Hyett wrote:
Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

IMO, the warming trend, if it is in fact real rather than a
statistical artefact, is overwhelming natural.

If you're so uninterested in the topic that you instantly switch
channel when it is discussed, then why express an opinion on it?

According to Occam .... the simplest explanation is the most likely

Just supposing that I can bear to actually try to learn anything
about this important subject, does anyone have any book and/or
website recommendations?

You are asking the impossible until you learn to read.

Or am I missing something in the OP's post that states an opinion
based on nothing more than popular telefiction?

(But don't waste too much effort trying to educate me, while I'm
so unwilling to educate myself!)

As if!

On Apr 9, 10:01*am, Martin Brown
wrote:

However, even the scientific sceptics admit that after about 1970 it
impossible to balance the Earth's energy budget without incorporating
AGW greenhouse gas forcing into the models. They say something different
when they are acting as mouthpieces for the ultra-right wing American
think tanks and oil companies that sponsor denialist propaganda.

Here's why:

A recursion to never mind the facts, look at the statistics:
How the government uses dirty data to legislate morality expose by The
Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/10/dirty_data/

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:14:22 +0100, "For example: John Smith"
wrote:


The French who now get more than 50% of its power requirements from nuclear
fission, must be laughing at the backward English.

But at the end of the day, when the lights go out all over Britain we
will still be British and they will still be French, so who gives a
stuff? I'd rather be dead than French.


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On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:22:36 +0100, Sofa - Spud
wrote:

Sam Nelson wrote:
In article 62b1c975-3458-4e8e-9801-9ac9143889b9
@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, says...
On 9 Apr, 08:59, Paul Hyett wrote:
Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

IMO, the warming trend, if it is in fact real rather than a statistical
artefact, is overwhelming natural.
Is this increase in the number of climate documentaries man-made or a
natural phenomenom?

Even if it is man-made, I don't think there's anything we can do about
it.

There is a lot less localised pollution than 35 years ago thats for
sure, I see more Buzzards , Heron and Kingfishers than I ever did as a
child in the urban Canals. In the canals there are huge shoals of very
large fish - I see them regularly as well as myriads of nesting birds
including swans. When I was small it was yellow and had oil slicks on it
from discharged slurry oils .

You had oil in your canals? you lucky lucky *******. We could walk
over ours and the newspapers on our feet never even got damp.

The days of foam flying in the air from the weir, and black bogies
after a day at work are long gone, all the industry has buggered off
to China. The worst polluters now are dog owners and litter louts.


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On Apr 10, 4:02*am, "MC" wrote:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

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Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

It's a conspiracy to brainwash us into thinking that it is, indeed, the
case.



IMO, the warming trend, if it is in fact real rather than a statistical
artefact, is overwhelming natural.
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Yep.

MC

Nope!

In article e67beff0-9780-4712-a1de-462059cd1387
@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com, says...
Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

It's a conspiracy to brainwash us into thinking that it is, indeed, the
case.


Is there a viable purpose for such a conspiracy to exist? It's certainly
not in the governments interest and they would undoubtedly need to be
part of it.


--
Alan LeHun

In message
ups.com
RWood wrote:

On Apr 10, 4:02*am, "MC" wrote:
"Paul Hyett" wrote in message

...

Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

It's a conspiracy to brainwash us into thinking that it is, indeed, the
case.



IMO, the warming trend, if it is in fact real rather than a statistical
artefact, is overwhelming natural.
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Yep.

MC

Nope!
Yep!

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Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/
Believing is the start of everything to come. - Hayley Westenra

In message
Alan LeHun wrote:

In article e67beff0-9780-4712-a1de-462059cd1387
@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com, says...
Am I the only one who instantly changes channel as soon as they start
wittering on about man-made global warming being responsible for every
little climate fluctuation?

It's a conspiracy to brainwash us into thinking that it is, indeed, the
case.


Is there a viable purpose for such a conspiracy to exist? It's certainly
not in the governments interest and they would undoubtedly need to be
part of it.


What planet do you live on? The first law of politics is that
policitians always strive to increase their power and influence. A
good scare story helps no end, since they can bring in restrictions on
their citizens that would be unaaceptable for any other reason.

My point is the government should not have an "interest". In a true
democracy, only the people have interests, which the goverment's job
is to work for. Nothing else. Once they start having "interests" it
is time to get rid of them.

--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/
Believing is the start of everything to come. - Hayley Westenra

In article ,
says...
My point is the government should not have an "interest". In a true
democracy, only the people have interests, which the goverment's job
is to work for. Nothing else. Once they start having "interests" it
is time to get rid of them.


And my point is that the only "interest" that the government has is get
re-elected. Difficult when you are creating a scare story that, should
it work, inevitable results in a perceived drop in the standard of
living.

Say what you like about agw, it certainly isn't part of some huge
international government conspiracy.

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Alan LeHun