Global Warming

This map shows how The Sunday Times reports that UK will look in a 100 years time. Its very hot and partially underwater, half of Angelsey is underwater, we are somewhere near the red dot. By we I should say our relatives...................
I'm one of those unconvinced. I will show the case for and against. Last Thursday on Channel 4 there was the case that the current accepted model for global warming is not correct. (Can be viewed here in its entirety courtesy Google Videos)

Climate scientist 'duped to deny global warming'

Read this but you need to read the bottom bit. The film is 10 years old and it certainly looks he was not duped.

Here's the other side on the programme.

Heat is on for deniers of global warming

The comments at the bottom of the article are interesting. The "global warming deniers" term reminds me of those in the last century who had the temerity to suggest that The Earth was NOT the centre of the Universe and the Sun did not orbit the Earth.
Persistence in these thoughts talked about in public led to being burned at the stake. A horrible way to die. Still if you recant you may still keep your job. Its a lot better than the stake.
The stifling of open public debate makes one dispair.

OR MAYBE ITS GOING TO BE LIKE THIS..........................GOING COOLER .... LGF

Russian Scientists Forecast Global Cooling in 6-9 Years

Created: 25.08.2006 17:47 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 22:33 MSK

MosNews

Global cooling could develop on Earth in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is replaced by a period of warming in the early 22nd century, a Russian Academy of Sciences’ astronomical observatory’s report says, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday.

Environmentalists and scientists warn not about the dangers of global warming provoked by man’s detrimental effect on the planet’s climate, but global cooling. Though never widely supported, it is a theory postulating an overwhelming cooling of the Earth which could involve glaciation.

“On the basis of our [solar emission] research, we developed a scenario of a global cooling of the Earth’s climate by the middle of this century and the beginning of a regular 200-year-long cycle of the climate’s global warming at the start of the 22nd century,” said the head of the space research sector.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century — when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland — could start in 2012-2015 and reach its peak in 2055-2060.

He said he believed the future climate change would have very serious consequences and that authorities should start preparing for them today because “climate cooling is connected with changing temperatures, especially for northern countries.”

“The Kyoto initiatives to save the planet from the greenhouse effect should be put off until better times,” he said, referring to an international treaty on climate change targeting greenhouse gas emissions.

“The global temperature maximum has been reached on Earth, and Earth’s global temperature will decline to a climatic minimum even without the Kyoto protocol,” Abdusamatov said.
[Link: www.mosnews.com...]

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