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  If you idiots would just quit breathing the amount of CO2 being put into the atmosphere woule be reduced by millions of tons.

  In 1988, James Hansen, a climatologist, told the US Congress that temperature would rise 0.3C by the end of the century (it rose 0.1C), and that sea level would rise several feet (no, one inch).

  In 1421 a Chinese Imperial Navy squadron sailed right round the Arctic and found no ice anywhere. At that time there was less of an icecap at the North Pole than there is now, particularly in summer. Yet the polar bears survived. Though there has been much discussion of the supposed threat posed by the warmer Arctic, the polar bears are thriving in the current warm period. Eleven of the thirteen principal known families are prospering as never before.

  Middle Ages were warmer than the present, and that there is little cause for alarm at the current melting of Greenland glaciers because they are very likely to have melted to more than their present extent during the mediaeval warm period.

  Proponents of the idea that mankind causes global warming are just arrogant and presumptuous to believe that they can have anything more than an insignificantly tiny effect on global climate and the forces of nature. There is no such thing as "greenhouse gas".  CO2 in the air does not make a barrier that holds in heat like the glass of a greenhouse does. There is no "greenhouse effect". There is no "blanket" of CO2 keeping heat in the air. Heat is in a continuous state of flux and equilibrium being absorbed from the sun and radiating to and from the atmosphere and the oceans. Dr. Paal Brekke, official with the European Space Agency, concluded that the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for "steep reductions in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions", is a misguided and ineffectual attempt to control the earth's climate.

  Growth-enhancing effects of CO2 create an impetus for cooling.  Carbon dioxide is a powerful aerial fertilizer, directly enhancing the growth of almost all terrestrial plants and many aquatic plants as its atmospheric concentration rises.  And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 -induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.  In addition, many non-sulfur-based biogenic materials of the terrestrial environment play major roles as water- and ice-nucleating aerosols; and the airborne presence of these materials should also be enhanced by rising levels of atmospheric CO2.  Hence, it is possible that incorporation of this multifaceted CO2 -induced cooling effect into the suite of equations that comprise the current generation of global climate models might actually tip the climatic scales in favor of global cooling in the face of continued growth of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. On Getting to the bottom of climate-change lingo posted 2 years, 9 months ago 5 Responses