Snow in July. Labrador Bay never thawed…

1976 – my right ear cartilage is still pitted from the sun burn I got. You could swim, comfortably in the North Sea (which never happens)

So, Chicken Little, stick your predictions… we’re no closer to an ice age than we are to a hell planet… climates change, that’s what they do… and sometimes (although climatologists don’t look at archaeology or geology in fine detail) there’s evidence of rapid change…

Bush imprisoned the water without habeas corpus and due process.

Eventually a crack team of earthworms and moles supported by AmInt infiltrated the prison and set the water free!

Please look that up, and if it doesn´t make you sick of how it spits on the first amendment, then can you read the origins of the first amendment and why their were important to the founders?

Seriously like Hiliary LOVES this idea…

Glow-bull warming is a MYTH!!!! Owl Bore made the WHOLE THING UP!!! To GET MONEY!!!

I can’t argue with that great bit of reasoned wisdom now, can I?

and of course you are right with hysteria. hysteria and fear are bad advisors.
considerateness and a clear mind should be our guides.

but one thing is funny. you wrote, that he should: “stop acting like this is a crisis of global proportions.” in fact it is nothing else. the climate would change world wide. the best thing to get out of this, is a wise and economic usage of fossil fuel, efficient power plants and sober minds.

but the changing systems are our problems. not the resulting
“bad” weather. according to my first gulfsream example, we
get all f*cked, if the stream snaps off. burning heat in northern
america and bitter winters in europe. both scenarios are not very
comfortable.

the problem with the constant warming is simple but not easy
to solve. the greenhouse gases are in our atmosphere and we can not
get rid of them. even if we would stop the production of CO2 and
methane tomorrow, the system would need many years to recover.
the system is just to big for fast changes. that was the problem
in the first place.
the greenhouse compounds were enriched in the atmosphere
for over 200 years. and now we are recognizing that the climate
systems are changing. the only thing we can do now, is reducing
the output of greenhouse substances and wait for the system
to react on it.
as we say in germany:
abwarten und tee trinken. (just wait and see!)

Oz: Hmmm. The reason we have a word for ‘tornadoes’ and ‘hurricanes’ and ‘floods’ is that they’ve happened before. Stop acting like this is a crisis of global proportions. It’s called ‘weather’ and sometimes ‘bad weather’. Get used to it and stop being a Global Warmening Fundamentalist whiner.

in the other direction: the mt. st. helen explosion threw enough ash and dust into the atmosphere, to lower the temperature for several degrees over the following years. (the ash reflected the radiant heat back into space).

heavy events can effect the climate – but only for a short time. long term changes are a result of constant alteration. and the present changes are benefited by greenhouse gases, vapour and the usual warm up. but without the gases and the vapour, the changes would be slow and less strong.
(this is the current scientific statment)

regards

the climate is changing right now. that is fact. the gulfstream will collapse some day. it is not the question if it will collapse, it is the question when its going to happen. it may not happen in my lifetime, but maybe my grandchild will see it in a distant future.

yes steve is right with the solar cycles but it is only the tip of the iceberg.
a warm solar cycle only speeds up the process of warming.
it is one of many fasctors, that benefits the global warming. but things are not normal anymore. we can feel the weather changes in central europe. i toke a picture of a tornado 3 years ago. it apeared in northern bremen. our climate here did not benefit those weather conditions since the start of the weather records. in the past few years, extreme weather is getting more and more usual. other factors are tons of carbon dioxide, more tons of methane whis is 30 times stronger than CO2, and tons of vapour evaporating from the oceans. all those compounds are keeping the thermal energy whithin our atmotpheare.

those are sad facts. nothing more .. nothing less.