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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 21-May-2009 At 9:17:18 PM GravityHound

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On 21/05/2009 TonyB wrote:
>
>Here is the data used by IPCC, from Hadley Centre / UK Met office for
>anyone interested in tracking the current global cooling trend.
>http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/crutem3gl.txt
>I've written an Excel macro to make plotting easier if anyone wants it.
>
why do you post links that have plenty of data in them that counter what you are trying to convince us of. their home page http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/ has a dandy little graph you should check out and also states that last year was the tenth warmest on record since 1850. pretty plain to me - the climate is changing.

"The time series shows the combined global land and marine surface temperature record from 1850 to 2008. The year 2008 was tenth warmest on record, exceeded by 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2001, 2007 and 1997."

and if the risk of human imposed climate change isnt enough of a reason to stop pumping co2 into the atmosphere how about increased acidification of the oceans and the effect that will have on our well being (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification) or is this a political scam as well.

and even if this CC isnt caused by the co2, increases in temperature and co2 are likely to have negative impacts on the yields of crops such as rice, that many countries, particularly developing nations, rely on as a staple food source (use google scholar to find citations in refereed journals).

and if the temp doesnt rise then it is likely to reduce the nutrient content of crops such as rice because the extra carbs produced by a plant and used to increase the yields arent matched with an increase in nutrient uptake.

all good reasons in my mind to change what we are doing with co2.

so why would you want keep on the same co2 path TonyB when it is pretty likely to cause a big mess? what really scares of when it comes to the whole co2 debate? laziness? the financial side of things?