Global Cooling

[DimPrawn]

Leave baggy alone, he doesn't want to mate with you, no matter how much you badger him.

[TimberWolf]

Although there is a lot of evidence for global warming being partially influenced by man, I do remember being told while at school in the 80s of

a/ the coming Ice Age
b/ Oil running out circa 10 years ago
c/ Computers enabling the 3 day week

maybe the teachers got this information from Space 1999. Or tomorrows world.

d) Electricity will be too cheap to meter.

[Bagpuss]

d/ you went to a 'progressive' school

I know,I must have been missing out on the Rapturist theories

[sasguru]

More ill-informed opinion from the village idiots.
La Nina explains the interannual fall in temperature this year:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...riability.html

Meanwhile as one of the definitions of a scientific theory is that it should predict things, I am willing to bet that the average temperature over the period 2003-2013 (I have selected this period as the fall in tempreature occurs half-way through in 2008) is higher than the average temperature over 1993-2003.

[DimPrawn]

More ill-informed opinion from the village idiots.
La Nina explains the interannual fall in temperature this year:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research...riability.html

Meanwhile as one of the definitions of a scientific theory is that it should predict things, I am willing to bet that the average temperature over the period 2003-2013 (I have selected this period as the fall in tempreature occurs half-way through in 2008) is higher than the average temperature over 1993-2003.

Again a graph carefully constructed to make it seem (at first glance) that the rate of warming is going through the roof, but careful analysis reveals the last ten years have not risen.

Also, if you are going to discount falls due to La Nina, then you must discount all rises in El Nino years.

[Moose423956]

Leave baggy alone, he doesn't want to mate with you, no matter how much you badger him.

roger

[Lucy]

Leave baggy alone, he doesn't want to mate with you, no matter how much you badger him.

How do you know he hasn't already?

Try not to be too jealous prawn.

[sasguru]

Again a graph carefully constructed to make it seem (at first glance) that the rate of warming is going through the roof, but careful analysis reveals the last ten years have not risen.

Also, if you are going to discount falls due to La Nina, then you must discount all rises in El Nino years.

I completely agree with your last statement - it only proves my point - despite yearly fluctuations up or down, sometimes quite drastic, there is only one way the overall trend is going, and that is up.

Not quite sure what careful analysis you have done to see that temperature hasn't risen for 10 years, but even if you are right, what does that prove?
In 50 years do you think the world will be hotter or cooler than it is now?

[DimPrawn]

How do you know he hasn't already?

Try not to be too jealous prawn.

Ooo, get you!

[sasguru]

How do you know he hasn't already?

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If he did, he's obviously been traumatised by the experience