"Chris.B" wrote in message
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On Nov 13, 5:45 am, "Peter Webb" ostrich@au wrote:

You can't halt climate change. Its been happening for billions of years,
and
will continue happening. It doesn't seem a problem at all; the earth's
climate has been warming for 150 years but nobody has yet identified any
problems as a result of this.

You haven't been hugging any dying trees, recently, have you?

http://www.horseandcountry.tv/news/s...climate-change

Opening line:

The forests of Scotland could be increasingly at risk ...

Speculation that bad things may happen in the future.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/deadtrees/

Opening line:

"Trees in western North America are dying at faster and faster rates, and
climate change is *likely* to blame ...

Nor does it note what is replacing the trees, or state whether this is an
improvement or not.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28773860/

Opening paragraph: "... that identified the most probable cause as warming
temperatures"

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/...zon-trees.html

This was the result of a storm, not global warming.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50S0OA20090129

"The worst heatwave in 100 years". The worst recorded heatwave occurred over
100 years ago. So much for global warming.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...eatwave-deaths

Same deal. Worst in 100 years. By their very peculiar definition. Not the
worst ever. Not even by their peculiar measure.


I am constantly amazed by people's gullibility. The climate has been warming
for 150 years, and no one has been able to point out what the problem is.
Australia get heat waves; the Amazon gets storms. Ecosystems have changed
and will change, this has been happening for billions of years.

The AGW people cannot point to a single problem deriving from the earth
having been generally warming for over 150 years. This is despite literally
billions of dollars being spent trying to find connections (researchers love
blaming climate change if they can, as it opens up additional research
funding opportunities).

But despite 150 years of warming temperatures, it is impossible to identify
a single problem this has definitely caused, or a major problem it "may"
have caused.

Yet they want us to believe that despite no evidence of any real problems
after 150 years of global warming, apparently another 30 years and the world
will end.

No, it won't. If we were 80% of the way to global calamity, we would have
very strong indicators now. The fact that in one city in Australia the
emperors were almost as hot as they were 100 years ago, or that there was a
big storm in the Amazon, is not because of global warming. I am sure that
Adelaide had heat waves and the Amazon had storms long before we started
building coal fired power stations.

I might also point out that over the last 150 years the earth's agricultural
productivity has increased approximately ten-fold, people are far less
likely to die from bad weather, and on every possible social and economic
indicator the world is doing extremely well. If this is what happens,
climate change is a good thing.