Climate Change is here and man made

[ali benarbia's studs]

In the headlines again. Good page here from the BBC:


http://wwwbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5aceb360-8bc3-4741-99f0-2e4f76ca02bb

Interesting that Dr Congo are one of the main culprits, are they like shipping in waste from western nations and burning it as there are no laws preventing this kind of activity ?

 

[johnny on the spot]

2015 is apparently the warmest year on record. We've also seen a drastic rise in the number of British people dying from cold related illness this year.

 

[malg]

Part 3 that relates rising sea levels to melting Arctic ice is complete bollocks which suggests the rest of it might not be completely reliable.

Is that right? I'm taking it on trust that the BBC wouldn't lie. I'll stick with Private Eye in future!

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

It might be hard to feel climate change in england but whether climate change is true or not i can certainly said it has by growing up in pakistan, and never heard of heavy rains in saudi arabia but over the last few years there have been heavy rains there

 

[JASR]

Whether climate change is happening or not...

I have issues with the IPCC data and its lack of transparency. They are the sole arbiters of the accumulated historical climate data - which in itself is a bit whiffy.

The 'hockey stick' of the temperature rise originally presented ... Back in the late 80's I think ... was shown to have been based on some dubious statistical practise and they were called out on it (by a very few) so they went away, massaged the figures some more, and then represented the same 'hockey stick' graph of temperature rise.

The mass of data (it is a very large amount!) is held by them, they release sets of this data, to anyone interested, but they don't allow release of the (even bigger mass) original prinary source data - as far as I can recall.

It's only in the last 50 or so years , that we have comprehensive data capturing for the entire globe.

As I said, I'm not saying whether global warming is happening or not.

Just... That for something as important as it potentially is, to mess up the science and maths, is a serious mistake for legitimacy and transparency.

 

[kas_tippler]

Cows trumping are one of the causes of the great climate change fib.

 

[bluethrunthru]

what I have never understood about all this is that as far as I have seen on documentaries etc where we all are has - in the past - been some sort of tropical rainforest and has been under glaciers hundreds of feet thick. Clearly the climate is a dynamic thing that has been changing over - well all of time really so it should be no surprise that its changing now. So why do we have the arrogance to think we can change it back to the equivalent of some nice spring day in the early 1960's or something? perhaps our efforts would be best put into adapting how we exist on the planet in its changing atmosphere?

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

Global warming.......A tax collectors dream.

 

[kas_tippler]

Also an excuse for scruffy cunts with V for Vendetta masks on to smash windows at Starbucks.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

If climate change is real or fake who benefits?just curious