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Listed below are comments made by PlanetThoughts between Thursday, 18th December 2008 and Monday, 23rd February 2009.

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A questioning climate 09:18am on 23 Feb 2009 There is a good deal of scientific evidence that co2 and other greenhouse gas-accelerated global warming is a serious threat. The possiblities of global cooling was apparently covered in only a couple of scientific papers in the 1970s, and was based on accumulation of reflective pollution in the atmosphere. It was never at anywhere near the level of scientific support as is the evidence for warming.

@3 ianniaan, you said it just about right. If it were not too challenging to current comfort levels, both physical and emotional, we would be taking action already to reduce the RISK of dangerous developments in our environment, including climate change. Even if there was only a 50% chance of temperatures shooting higher, we should be taking action. It appears the odds are far higher than that. And the original article appears to be a disguised form of climate obfuscation.

I find far more to trust in scientific analysis than in the attitudes of "it can't be happening because I just don't want to believe it". Look at the facts, look at the charts. When you have penetrated to the level of scientific inquiry and objectivity, those skeptics who are truly interested in the truth, and I know some are, may well change their minds.
A questioning climate 09:16am on 23 Feb 2009 There is a good deal of scientific evidence that co2 and other greenhouse gas-accelerated global warming is a serious threat. The possiblities of global cooling was apparently covered in only a couple of scientific papers in the 1970s, and was based on accumulation of reflective pollution in the atmosphere. It was never at anywhere near the level of scientific support as is the evidence for warming.

@3 ianniaan, you said it just about right. If it were not too challenging to current comfort levels, both physical and emotional, we would be taking action already to reduce the RISK of dangerous developments in our environment, including climate change. Even if there was only a 50% chance of temperatures shooting higher, we should be taking action. It appears the odds are far higher than that. And the original article appears to be a disguised form of climate obfuscation.

For one clear visualization of the rapidity of warming going on, see this article (on my Web site):

http://www.planetthoughts.org/?pg=pt/Whole&qid=2710

I find far more to trust in scientific analysis than in the attitudes of "it can't be happening because I just don't want to believe it". Look at the facts, look at the charts. When you have penetrated to the level of scientific inquiry and objectivity, those skeptics who are truly interested in the truth, and I know some are, may well change their minds.
Obama's 'green dream' 00:05am on 23 Dec 2008 I have read plenty of scientific reports, as well as the pseudo-analysis by climate deniers.

There was similar vehemence against a new understanding when Earth was first stated as NOT being the center of the universe.

Similarly, the idea that endless expansion of humankind is good and healthy must not be challenged, these people say. And then there is their "proof by assertion" that humankind can do no harm, such as causing the planet to heat up. What a harmful set of assumptions they are making!

How many of them have analyzed the gas heat exchange equations and albedo equations in context of global climate change? Skimming the IPCC report does not qualify.

Thank you to all those who are trying to avoid the worst climate and energy disaster scenarios, including Obama and his environment appointees.
EU climate deal - can it, or can't it? 12:04pm on 18 Dec 2008 There are a bunch of dedicated skeptics here. For example, they all seem to be reading from the same script, about global temperatures dropping since 1998. Where did they get this from? Please read this carefully written and documented article on temperature trends in the last 50 years:

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/20ctrend.htm

About halfway through is a graph which shows the dramatic rise in temperature during the 1990s and 2000s.

I don't know if those commenting negatively here are misinformed from another source (I would like to see where they get their information from) but it is a dangerous error they are making, sadly enough.

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