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ACE

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taking the pssss
« on: August 16, 2009, 19:55:37 »
Now I alway thought that we were being robbed of our hard earned by the government and every body else that jumped on the band bagon when they saw how gullable we all are.

All the extra revenue on fuel etc was taken under the pretence that it is helping climate change. (what used to be global warming)

Just read the first report in the link, The die hards amongst you will not believe it, but it is because of you  the rest of us are being robbed blind.

http://m.telegraph.co.uk/article/5955955/

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Re: taking the pssss
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 22:36:41 »
If I understand the slap-head in the anorack right, he's saying that anthropogenic climate change is a myth because the met office got the summer weather forecast wrong.

But the met office didn't get the forecast wrong.  They calculated that there was a good chance of a barbeque summer, and indeed there was - a good chance - but as any punter knows, there's no such thing as a dead cert.

So anyways, the evidence from the last 50 years is that the planet's heating up, evidenced by the melting ice caps and changing eco-systems.  That doesn't necessarily mean that the climate will continue to heat up, and it doesn't necessarily mean that this fifty-year spike in global temperature is down to man-made greenhouse gasses, atmospheric pollution or the destruction of the rainforests.  But it might.

But there's little point him shaking his fist at the science, because the problem is with nature.  It freaked out Newton and Einstein, but the truth is the world isn't deterministic.  Even if the science is right the answer can be wrong.
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