It's hard to know where to start with this - like Steve, I didn't
realise there were any of you guys left outside the Bible Belt.
> *What* evidence?
> Have you noticed any significant change in the weather, sea levels or
> any of
> the other dire predictions in your lifetime?
Yes - 8 of the hottest 10 years on record have occurred in the last
decade, and people living on low lying Pacific islands are now having
to move their villages back as the sea levels rise towards them.
> Or are you under the impression (which the enviro loonies certainly
> tried to
> give at the time) that the asian tsunami or hurricane Katrina, for
> example,
> were consequences of GW?
No, and this isn't true - responsible reporting made it clear that
although these events might be linked to GW, it was by no means certain
> I know that the green line is to continually repeat "now the evidence
> is
> overwhelming", but they don't actually provide the evidence. Just
> rehash the
> same old flawed and/ or highly selective studies and misused statistics
> we've seen a thousand times before. They are becomeing more shrill not
> because it is happening but because if they don't get their way soon
> it's
> going to be obvious to everyone that, yet again, their dire predictions
> haven't materialised.
>
Again just not true - it's not about stats, it's about events like
chunks of ice sheet the size of Belgium falling off Antarctica, and the
northern ice cap shrinking to its smallest size since records began
> I do know where people might get the impression that there is a
> problem;
> every time any weather related event makes the news the greens are
> there
> with a press release blaming GW which certain newspapers are only too
> ready
> to splash in big headlines, but how many notice the later followup in
> more
> rational places which says that it was no such thing?
>
> The politicians, of course, love it because they can introduce as many
> new
> taxes as they like, as long as they call it "green". It will even
> allow them
> to stay in office while presiding over a *declining* economy, which
> would
> otherwise be electoral suicide.
>
Rather the reverse - to his shame, Brown backed down in front of the
fuel protesters and abandoned the fuel tax escalator. This government
has done almost nothing to reduce UK emissions, only taken advantage of
the reductions which were inevitable from the switch from coal to gas
for power generation, and of the continuing decline in heavy industry
to claim that they had achieved something.
> Incidentally, if you really believe in anthropogenic global warming,
> *why is
> your primary leisure activity based on the extensive use of an internal
> combustion engine?*
> Mine is primarily wind powered, and even towing it around Scotland to
> launch
> it I must use a fraction of the diesel you do in a year.
>
Since moving on board Sanity, my total fuel consumption is now a
fraction of what it was previously. I now use less diesel for virtually
all my energy requirements than I used to use just for personal
transport.
I guess it's not a case of agreeing to disagree, but of agreeing to
consider each other totally deranged, so not much point continuing this
thread.
Bruce
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