If you want the TRUTH about the global warming con...

...this website is indispensable.

http://www.iloveco2.org/

Real science, real research. Unbiased and honest.

The name of the site. So brazen.

Increasingly I think that climate change has been thoroughly put to bed as a potential danger now.

However just in case, here's a quick run-down of what to do in investment terms, to hedge your bets:

- don't buy property in low-lying coastal regions

- don't buy property in floodplains

- don't buy property in dry rural scrub or forest land

- invest in the desalination industry

- invest in plant/crop biotech

Hmm, there must be more than this.

Oh right: buy gold.

Adamus said:

Increasingly I think that climate change has been thoroughly put to bed as a potential danger now.

However just in case, here's a quick run-down of what to do in investment terms, to hedge your bets:

- don't buy property in low-lying coastal regions

- don't buy property in floodplains

- don't buy property in dry rural scrub or forest land

- invest in the desalination industry

- invest in plant/crop biotech

Hmm, there must be more than this.

Oh right: buy gold.

Click to expand...

Buy guns

and a Jenson Interceptor

Adamus said:

- don't buy property in low-lying coastal regions

Click to expand...

Someone should tell Al - I think he's just splashed out 8 million clams on a property by the ocean .

An interesting subject, some points to consider :

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/disinformation_about_global_warming/

cool site, i am also skeptic towards global warming

but to be honest, i dont think a website selling i love co2 tshirts is unbiased.

The very best site for addressing the denialist clap trap, using citations from the real published science to address all the common misconceptions and disinformation:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

New research confirms ocean heat content continues to rise and at a rate faster than model predictions:



http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/05/ocean-heat-content-increases-update/

Not good news for the climate.

NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record
Plus a new record 12-month global temperature, as predicted



http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/...-and-hottest-jan-april-in-temperature-record/

It's surely not the sun, as we are in the deepest solar minimum for a century.

Meanwhile the Arctic ice continues to rapidly shrink:

As Arctic sea ice shrinks faster than 2007, NSIDC director Serreze says, “I think it’s quite possible” we could “break another record this year.”




http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/24/arctic-sea-ice-extent-volume-nsidc-record-steve-goddard/

And the Greenland ice mass continues it's decline:



http://www.skepticalscience.com/Latest-GRACE-data-on-Greenland-ice-mass.html

It seems that the truth about global warming is is right before our eyes:

- heating oceans
- heating atmosphere
- melting cryosphere

dcraig1 said:

It seems that the truth about global warming is is right before our eyes:

- heating oceans
- heating atmosphere
- melting cryosphere

Click to expand...

Lulz...it's just too easy.

Thanks Craigie .

Noisy AGW denialist Monckton (who likes to tell people he is a member of the House of Lords even though he is not, and once advocated the internment of anybody infected with HIV in camps) has been demolished in an exhaustive and scholarly rebuttal by Professor John Abraham of St Thomas University. The scope of Monckton's lies and misrepresentations is quite extraordinary.

http://www.stthomas.edu/engineering/jpabraham/

The issue of the reality of AGW has become quite dull. The science is "settled" to the extent that human activity is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect of sufficient magnitude to be of major concern. The evidence is overwhelming and accepted by all major national academies of science, scientific societies and professional associations that have an official position. There is no chance that this situation is going to change in the foreseeable future. The denialists will go the way of the flat earthers in the next decade or so. And climate science will grow, quite possibly with better projections of the expected warming.

The really interesting and intensely pragmatic issue now is where will the worlds energy come from in the next 50 years or so on the road to zero emissions. Here is some food for thought:

PV SOLAR



PWR NUCLEAR



http://uvdiv.blogspot.com/2009/07/test.html

Notice the costs, and the "capacity factor" which is the ratio of actual output to rated output. The rated output is essentially the maximum output.

Apologies for image sizes - the stupid BB code doesn't seem to have an facility for resizing.

dcraig1 said:

The issue of the reality of AGW has become quite dull. The science is "settled" to the extent that human activity is causing an enhanced greenhouse effect of sufficient magnitude to be of major concern.

Click to expand...

I have come across many people who find arguments that they have lost "dull".

The science is indeed settled as far as it can ever be, which is not much, although not in the way that you imagine.

This article should raise (yet again) some questions for those concerned with the truth. For Craig it will just be more conspiracy-theory and holocaust denial.

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5806

maiden22 said:

This article should raise (yet again) some questions for those concerned with the truth. For Craig it will just be more conspiracy-theory and holocaust denial.

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=5806

Click to expand...

The only questions raised are why anybody should take any notice of cranks such as the author Tim Ball.

The scientific "debate" on the reality of AGW is over, there is not longer grounds for reasonable doubt. In this context, the Tim Ball's of this world resort to the worst sort of personal slanderous attacks on leading scientists devoid of factual basis. But chock full of lies and nonsense.

The lie:

"RealClimate the attack group organized to defend the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)"

The truth:

The RealClimate blog/website has existed for years - long before "climategate" and the politically motivated attacks on the CRU. It's purpose was, and is, to further public understanding and discussion of climate science. The vast majority of articles on the site relate (unsurprisingly) to issues of climate science. Anybody can very easily verify this for themselves by actually looking at the site: http://www.realclimate.org/

The nonsense:

"NASA needs to understand weather and climate because it affects the launch orbit and landing of space vehicles."


The reality:

NASA studies planetary climate and atmosphere for the furtherance of scientific knowledge not only as a necessary adjunct to the launch and landing of space vehicles. Only a (politically motivated) idiot would exclude Earth's atmosphere and climate from this. Indeed only an idiot would suggest that earth's climate and atmosphere is not the most important of all.

The grossly misleading

..... discovery of the so-called the Y2K error, which resulted in a significant change in the US temperature record. The claim 1998 was the warmest year on record and 9 of 10 of the warmest years were in that decade was amended to 1934 being the warmest and 4 of the top 10 were in the 1930s.

The reality:

The fix for the Y2K error made negligible difference to the global temperature record. Cherry picking US data to give false impressions about the global temperature trends is downright dishonest. According to HADCrut, 1998 is the warmest and according to GISSTemp, 2005 is the warmest. When dealing with large data sets, corrections to errors are sometimes made. That is reality. Would Tim Ball prefer that they not be made?

The slanderous:

Each year global annual temperatures are produced by different agencies and every time the NASA GISS data shows a more pronounced warming. “Each time Hansen announces that the GISS has discovered a better way to statistically modify actual US ground temperatures, warming becomes even more pronounced and any cooling less pronounced.”

The facts:

The main reason the GISS record shows slightly more warming is that it includes that arctic and the others (other than the satellite record) don't. The arctic has shown dramatic warming in the last few years (as predicted by models). However, this year the satellite record is showing dramatic warming likely to easily exceed all of the surface temperature records. The UAH satellite record is maintained by Dr Roy Spencer (an AGW skeptic). Will Tim Ball accuse him too of cooking the books? The GISS data processing methods are documented and available for free download. The source code for their software is also available.

A more apt moniker for Tim Ball would be slimeball judging by this horrible article.

Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills

Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills

"That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today."

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/five-thousand-gulf-oil-spills/