ALMOST every day some report or event is claimed as evidence of global warming. Al Gore's recent movie An Inconvenient Truth went so far as to claim that we have a "climate crisis" right now.
Do we?
It can be hard finding the real facts on climate change among all the hype.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a mandate to deliver a comprehensive assessment of human-induced climate change every few years, and the Fourth Assessment Report, AR4, is due for release sometime this year.
You have possibly been led to believe, given all the media headlines, that this big report was released in Paris last Friday. It wasn't.
Friday's document was just a 21-page summary of the first part of AR4, and doesn't even have a bibliography.
That's right, just a summary of a quarter of the big report.
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis – Summary for Policy Makers is nevertheless an important document, because it details the position of many global warming experts. So what does it say?
Read my opinion in today's The Courier Mail, click here: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21169204-27197,00.html .
oh my god you are sooo full of bullshit!!! haven't you SEEN the FACTS have you even READ the IPCC summary? because if you had the information is quite clear and most of what you're saying is nowhere near what the report states! Look around you! Australia is in drought London just had a heat wave, Japan had 10 typhoons last year beating its annual record of 7, they have had to redefine a hurricane because they have formed over places they said they would never form over because they have become more TROPICAL!
you can ignore the facts but you can't change them and the fact is that we have been experiencing a lot of change and whether its a 'crisis' or not, if you want your children's children to have water and normal temperatures to live in take what people are saying seriously because it's better safe than sorry!
Christina Macpherson! Why not waste your time responding to the initial post on this thread. You must have a lot more time than you would have us believe since you are an anti-nuclear campaigner. I'll tell my children to thank you when the world's oil and gas runs out decades before it ever should have, with the added surpise of 'no end of fossil fuel plan B' infrastructure in place to help cushion the global shock! The truth is if you are not involved in agriculture today you have likely enjoyed the cushion in lifestyle cheap fossil fuels has afforded us over time. There's going to be a lot more people working the land in the future if Cuba is any hint to a carbon constrained world. I'm tired of today's green movement. You guys don't even have a sustainable model of food production to advocate. And don't give me organic unless you are volunteering to camp in the two thirds of global population that would starve with 100% organic food production. I'll predict by around $90/barrel it will be totally 'uncool' to be seen to be a greeny! World's gone mad with ideology. Where have the on ground workers gone?
No Ian being thick does not the logical conclusion that the greenhouse flux is bang on what it should be. Boom boom. Your pathetic attempt at some politico-waffle diversion is utterly irrelevant and you have completely missed the significance of these papers which shoves proof right under your nose. You might do well to ponder why the warming is greater in these areas. Therein lies the point ! But that would mean you'd have to still your mind and do what we term "reflective reading".
Really Ian if this is as smart as your response gets to this work and its implications, I think retirement looms.