I wasn't referring to the projections, I was referring to the general population of scientists. So...
Fair enough. Which is why it's laughable to say "we're in danger of a new ice age". Particularly in light of what we know, the world is warming--ice doesn't lie.
Not true. It is preponderance of evidence that makes the hypothesis of gravity the Theory of Gravity. A true scientist will admit of the possibility that an apple will rise when it's severed from the tree. It just has never been observed and so is very improbable.
I'm not a broken window Keynesian, though if money is available but not circulating, it is in fact probably better overall to "make work" than it is to have general unemployment (leaving out the finite capacity of Earth, for the moment), I'm a "new windows" or "better windows"-until-the-private-sector-gets-moving-again Keynesian, to put it in too brief a sentence.
Thank goodness we're at least on page two or three of the argument. It appears at least one guy around here is still on page one, ie. "is there really any warming?"
Get a fatter wallet. That's what I do. : )
No comment on the coal industry, not the right thread for it imho.
So, what do we know? We know that CO2 has a greater heat capacity than oxygen. We know that the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere is rising. So, we would anticipate atmospheric warming (all other things being equal, where the "anthropogenic" and "solar-genic?" argument begins) and yep, that's what we're observing. We also know, through isotope analysis, that Man is adding a significant and growing amount to total atmospheric CO2.
