David Bellamy on Global Warming

[Cowboy Bob]

That might have something to do with the river being narrowed to make it flow faster (that's where the embankment comes from).

Nope, simply because it doesn't freeze upstream anymore either. Neither does any other river in the country freeze 1 foot thick (which is what would be the minimum required to have stalls and hundreds of people out on the ice) like they used to a couple of hundred years ago.

[Cowboy Bob]

Ah well your statements are inconsistent then ....

No they aren't. I'll put it more simply. Global Warming is a natural phenomena that would be happening anyway. The human effects are accelerating this natural process. Better?

[DimPrawn]

By how much?

If all carbon use stopped today, what effect would it have?

I suspect close to diddly.

[Numptycorner]

By how much?

If all carbon use stopped today, what effect would it have?

I suspect close to diddly.

You hope you mean.

Maybe the earth is flat, yes I've decide it's flat! All people who disagree are tree hugging commies, come on someone agree with me then we can declare it as fact. Yes the earth being round is Nu Lie spin!

[sasguru]

By how much?

If all carbon use stopped today, what effect would it have?

I suspect close to diddly.

Wrong again. From the report:

"In the light of new evidence and taking into account the
remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over
the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the [anthropogenic] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations"

PS This is getting tedious. It's like arguing with Christians. Criticise the science or shut the feck up. I'm not interested in people's "revealed by voices in my head" opinion.

[DimPrawn]

Okay, I'll do my bit. I'm getting rid on my 6 litre twin turbo V12 and get a basic 5 litre V8 supercharged at trade in time.

Okay?

[sasguru]

I watched a BBC science docudrama a year or two back about a manned space-ship touring the planets.

When they got to Venus, which was 450 degrees C and air pressure 100 times what it was on Earth, they said that this will happen to Earth if men continue to use fossil fuel at their current rate.

That's an example of "scientists".

Ah. that's why I prefer to listen to scientists.

[Cowboy Bob]

Wrong again. From the report:

"In the light of new evidence and taking into account the
remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over
the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the [anthropogenic] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations"

Keyword is "most", which is entirely consistent with what I said, especially over such a short period of time. And I am actually a qualified scientist in this area.

[sasguru]

Keyword is "most", which is entirely consistent with what I said, especially over such a short period of time. And I am actually a qualified scientist in this area.

Ah excellent. Now we agree.

[Cowboy Bob]

Ah excellent. Now we agree.

Perhaps we do, however the media seems to protray it as 100% the fault of man, which is quite wrong.

But then, I've hardly ever read a decently researched media piece on science yet - though some are better than others. If you've ever cringed when reading a technology piece in the paper, you know what I'm talking about...