barryr666/environment

White out. Adverse weather conditions strike east coast of USA causing massive disruptions to transport systems. Europe was badly hit too with airports and railways closed. I know, as I got stuck in Zurich for an extra 24 hours longer than anticipated and I'm still waiting 3 days later for my luggage to show up.

Nice graphical representation showing the the rise in global temperatures over the last 135 years with a reasonable account as to potential causes. However, 1875, which is where this presentation commences, just so happened to be the lowest temperature for 10,000 years at the end of a mini ice age so little wonder temperatures have been rising since then.

"The model is right, it's the real world that is wrong." Computer climate change models are totally inadequate at predicting what will happen, as there are too many interacting parameters that we do not understand and precipitation is particularly difficult to predict. Various models predict between a 1.0oC to 6.0oC rise in temperature over the next 100 years. This is a huge span and is equivalent to GIGO; Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Evidence form the Maldives shows that 200 years ago sea levels were 300mm higher than today. Around 1970/1975 seal levels FELL to the present level. Increased evaporation of the Indian Ocean has caused the drop in sea level with the resultant water vapour falling as rain or snow elsewhere on the planet. If all the ice at the poles were to melt, then this would cause a disastrous sea water rise of 100m. However, the thickness of accumulated ice in East Antarctica would account for 80/90m of that rise and, because of the extreme sub zero temperatures prevailing there, warming elsewhere will result in the ice thickness increasing.

Weather satellite data and, prior to that, balloon data show that atmospheric temperatures have not altered in the last 25 years. Surface temperatures have increased within cities by 5 or 6 degrees, which is hardly surprising given the replacement of earth and greenery with concrete and asphalt. Evidence from the Maldives would also suggest that sea levels have not risen in the ;last 50 years. Set this against IPCC predictions that low lying areas will be flooded and disappear in the next 50 to 100 years.

The doom and gloom merchants of climate change totally ignore events prior to 1875, which marked the end of a mini ice age; the coldest temperature in the last 10,000years. Independent proxy evidence has been used to demonstrate that temperatures in the past across the planet have been much warmer than present day. Even the IPCC has had to change its stance and now claim that man at worst is only responsible for global warming in the last 30 years rather than for the whole of 20th century as originally maintained.

Climate change is a natural phenomenon in the cycle of the earth's fluctuating temperatures. The climate change model is flawed and totally ignores past temperatures prior to 1875, which was the coldest temperature on this planet in the last 10,000 years. Temperature analysis of 3.0km long ice core samples, equivalent to 120,000 years, taken from Greenland using an ultra sensitive thermometer accurate to 1/1000th oC shows that the planet was much warmer than present day. Once the politicians get hold of an idea, there is no stopping the band wagon and anyone who speaks out against the current policy is shouted down.

The consequences of being careless with our rubbish; taken to extremes with the cast off cigarette but then look at what has happened recently with forest fires in California, Australia and Greece.