Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn

[pjclarke]

Yep, gotta pick some cherries to make cherry pie

[pjclarke]

You can see where the global temps are going.

Climate change is upon us and we must act | Comment is free | The Observer

[DodgyAgent]

Climate change is upon us and we must act | Comment is free | The Observer

Quite right lets tax everyone and feed the proceeds to the scientists and organisations that investigate the problem

Alternatively we could pour this in the oceans to get rid of CO2
The added advantage is that we wouldn't have to pay so much to Scientists and the lefties would have to find another way to feed their entitlement

..:: Welcome to Nualgi ::..

It would be funded by sacking scientists and withdrawing funds to all the churches of man made climate change

GROWING PHYTOPLANKTON IN THE SEAS TO ABSORB GLOBAL CARBON DIOXIDE AND REDUCE
GREENHOUSE EFFECT THEREBY SOLVING GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEM.


And we can feed the world too.

[BlasterBates]

Climate change is upon us and we must act | Comment is free | The Observer

The picture is a bit misleading as it shows fire fighters busy with forest fires, sort of implying this is a consequence...

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to show firefighters with their feet up, because over recent years over the last couple of years they seem to have had less to do



You might find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ecology

Many ecosystems, particularly prairie, savanna, chaparral and conifer forests, have evolved with fire as a necessary contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. Many plant species in naturally fire-affected environments require fire to germinate, establish, or to reproduce.

Just pointing out some basic ecology that the jounalist doesn't seem to know.

I would have thought a picture of a huge volcano errupting would have been far more dramatic and just as relevant as the picture of a forest fire in a dry forest region, that burns pretty regularly. Or perhaps they could show some pictures of the Sahara desert.

[DodgyAgent]

The picture is a bit misleading as it shows fire fighters busy with forest fires, sort of implying this is a consequence...

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to show firefighters with their feet up, because over recent years over the last couple of years they seem to have had less to do



You might find this interesting:

Fire ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Just pointing out some basic ecology that the jounalist doesn't seem to know.

Showing pictures like this is a feeble attempt at manipulation

[pjclarke]

Got it. You don't like the photo chosen (probably by a sub-editor) to illustrate the article.

[DodgyAgent]

Got it. You don't like the photo chosen (probably by a sub-editor) to illustrate the article.

It is not in the detail it is the whole picture that gives a misleading impression.

[pjclarke]

So the Observer got it wrong how exactly?

BTW you can do a simple count or ....

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011 - Dennison - 2014 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

[DodgyAgent]

So the Observer got it wrong how exactly?

BTW you can do a simple count or ....

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011 - Dennison - 2014 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library

You and your ilk do your best to manipulate people by almost always including emotive pictures to try and shore up your flimsy evidence. Anyway we have a solution to the problem which will mean you will have to find another cause to impress us with.

If you wish to switch the argument to one about fires why don't you prove that these fires are on account of man made global warming?

[pjclarke]

Anyway we have a solution to the problem

What you have is a patent-applied-for research product developed for the domestic aquarium market which the manufacturer is desperately trying to reposition as a means of removing carbon from the oceans, a solution that has been shown to be ineffective.

Each kg of ' NUALGI ' dosed in the sea can remove about 140 kg to 1400 kg of carbon from the sea.

Back of the envelope:

Global emissions CO2 31,350,455,000,000 kg.
Equivalent Carbon (12/44) = 8,550,124,090,000 kg

at a first approximation about half the emitted C ends up in the ocean so, taking the manufacturers best case, just to keep up with the additional C, never mind the Gigatonnes already emitted, we would need to distribute between 3 and 30 billion tons of this stuff per yr.

Any other bright ideas?