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2009-11-30 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2009-11-30 09:39|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Before or after CRU data massaging.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-11-30 10:06|| 2009-11-30 10:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Professor Andy Kevinson, director of the Windmill Centre for Climate Fraud, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's research grants -- around half a billion dollars -- will survive if global populations wise up.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-30 10:10|| 2009-11-30 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 with growing pessimism that a binding agreement on emissions reduction targets will be reached, Anderson warned time was running out.

I no longer trust anyone who says that 'we are running out of time.' This is the same argument that I believe AlGore made; it's also the argument that Obama made concerning his terrifying health 'plan.'

It always seems to be the leftist/statist/marxist axis who wants to cause a stampede.

Posted by Free Radical 2009-11-30 10:33|| 2009-11-30 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It'll wipe out billions all right...billions in productive wealth vacuumed up by global warming graft and rent seeking.

Posted by Mike 2009-11-30 10:37|| 2009-11-30 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 could someone please explain what the "perfect" global temperature would be and why 4C changes would be so catastrophic when we regularly have temperature swings of 100C every year in many places? BS, MS, PHD.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-11-30 10:41|| 2009-11-30 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess he didn't get the memo...

Posted by Parabellum 2009-11-30 11:14|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-11-30 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 The guy is full of crap. Even if it's all true we lose some expensive coastland (Florida, Louisiana, netherlands) if we can't dike it up over the years it takes the ocean to riseand in exchange we open up Siberia and Northern Canada to farming and suburbs.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2009-11-30 12:08|| 2009-11-30 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 could someone please explain what the "perfect" global temperature would be

Whatever it is right now. Or preferably yesterday. It's not allowed to change even though it did all the time before mankind arrived. But now that we've arrived it's all our fault.

It is the hubris of humanity and especially of progressive humanity: that now is the most important time on the planet simply because we are here. The corollary is that, of course, we are the most important species on the planet, followed closely by Earth is the most important planet in the universe because we're on it, and that Earth (Gaia) suffers because of how we mis-treat it.

I like to remind such people:

Earth is a pebble in space. It is an inanimate object. It does not suffer and most certainly does not care.

Earth has been here for five billion years and has five billion more years to go. Today is not special to Earth in the least.

The people who came before us thought they were important; those who come after us also will think they are important. When all of us are special, none of us are.

Earth has been warmer in the past. It has been colder. It will be both warmer and colder in the future. It does not care.

As life has evolved in response to the conditions on Earth, so too shall we. It is a sublime arrogance to say that we shall change the Earth. The Earth has always changed us and always shall.

Posted by Steve White 2009-11-30 12:25|| 2009-11-30 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Add one more item Steve:

Extinction is a perfectly natural process which has happened to millions of species before and probably millions after today. Blowing massive resources to 'save' some spotted tree frog or something is a crime against nature. Let it die out.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-30 12:50|| 2009-11-30 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 could someone please explain what the "perfect" global temperature would be

Whatever it was during the speaker's childhood, wherever it was that the speaker was a child. Include in this that perfect day at the beach/in the mountains/playing in the snow, which he didn't enjoy nearly so much at the time as he now does in gold-nimbussed memory.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-30 12:55|| 2009-11-30 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 If you check the materials that Tyndall puts out, they genuflect sustainable a lot.

By a coincidence, the figure .5 billion is believed to be an optimal figure by the adherents of sustainability.

Methinks the perfesser is trying to establish a memetic precedent.

Posted by twobyfour 2009-11-30 13:53|| 2009-11-30 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought there were too many people already here. Wouldn't wiping billions of them out be a good thing?

I'm so confused....

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-30 14:25|| 2009-11-30 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 twobyfour--- it is not memetic precedent.

It is memetic president.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-11-30 15:11|| 2009-11-30 15:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Al Gore's billions?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-30 17:10|| 2009-11-30 17:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Anthropogenic global warming doesn't matter: long before we succumb to the rising oceans, we'll all drown in the tsunami of stupid bullshit emanating from these hysterical idiots.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2009-11-30 20:07|| 2009-11-30 20:07|| Front Page Top

#16 If we don't act immediately, at least 129 billion¹ will die!

[1] Calculations courtesy of East Aglia Climate Research Unit

Posted by DMFD 2009-11-30 22:50|| 2009-11-30 22:50|| Front Page Top

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