Global warming???

[The Conquistador]

I dunno. It seems like things have stayed warm all year round. It seemed like December was the only month I really had to bundle up and I didn't really have to put on much. The nice weather seems to be shifting to an annual occurence rather than a seasonal one, but that's just me.

[randolph]

Well its a good thing those guys didn't make it.

[The Conquistador]

Whenever I think of dinosaurs, I always envision them with British accents. I don't know why.

[aussiepride]

sorry to restart an old thread, but it has become a somewhat heated issue in Australia.

recently our government passed a bill that brought in a "carbon tax" that is one of the highest in the world... at a time when we experienced one of our coldest, wettest summers on record.
we have also been hit with a levy to pay for a "desalinization plant" (turns salt water into drinkable freashwater), even when our freashwater dams are so far over maximum that they are over flowing.

personally i believe that global warming has yet to be proven, and even if it is occuring that there are other causes for it other than being influenced by "human development"

recent research into global warming has shown that global temperatures have in fact been steady for a number of years now.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by aussiepride

personally i believe that global warming has yet to be proven, and even if it is occuring that there are other causes for it other than being influenced by "human development"

recent research into global warming has shown that global temperatures have in fact been steady for a number of years now.

I wish I had definitive answers, but sadly global warming "science" has become highly politicized. So called scientists have been caught tweaking their numbers to back up global warming theories. There's probably some good scientists out there researching global warming, but without reproducing each of their experiments yourself you'll never know who they are. I do know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that has to be controlled. The science is solid on that.

[desirouspussy]

Originally Posted by aussiepride

we have also been hit with a levy to pay for a "desalinization plant" (turns salt water into drinkable freashwater), even when our freashwater dams are so far over maximum that they are over flowing

One wet summer and all the water restrictions the people of Melbourne suffered in the past are forgotten. Truly amazing!

[aussiepride]

Originally Posted by GGadmirer

One wet summer and all the water restrictions the people of Melbourne suffered in the past are forgotten. Truly amazing!

it sure is amazing how a climatic event called the El Nino effect and the La Nina Effect which are the major influence on climate and can cause either an increase or decrease in ocean temps, air pressure, land temperatures and rainfall, and which switches roughly every 5 years and effects areas from north america, south america, africa, asia, and oceania (including melbourne) which has NOTHING to do with global warming or greenhouse effect is used as evidence for tough times in aus, droughts, water restrictions, but not when it causes increase rainfall and a decrease in water, and land surface temperatures.

The current Australian federal government has taken a massively eccessive stance on this issue. the general public, industry, business and the general scientific community think its exessive. Pandering to the green vote to maintain the balance of power is doing nothing to deal with this issue.

[smc]

For all those anti-science folks ...