well, let's see: according to nasa, 2009 was the warmest year in modern history and the decade of 2000 - 2009 was the warmest decade. wnd is about as far right-wing as they get. i asked you to not post links to such sites. even the weather channel has stated the previous decade was the warmest on record. your link to wnd as evidence is lame.

er    whatever happened to beige? 

i think humans are way 2 selfish to give up their cushy cosy lifestyles and gadgets to help reduce emmissions and as for cars and planes well thats not gonna change is it. i do find it amusing that governments etc start shouting about how wonderful electric or hybrid cars are- electric cars are powered by electricity from coal powered stations  lol  hybrid cars are part electric part petrol - some foolish ppl actually fall for this twaddle.

i have 2 confess i dont give a toss anymore as am way too old and i like my comforts. the vast majority of humanity are a selfish bunch so good luck to them 

The lunatic fringe doesn't like beige...

john coleman is no longer affiliated with the weather channel and does not speak for the organization. i rarely watch twc except to catch the local forecast. btw, nasa has been around for 50+ years. the government has kept weather data for many decades longer. foreign governments have done the same. claiming climate change is a scam is ridiculous. the earth is warming. it's a fact.

i love how the far-right claims that since the east coast of the us had record snowfall this past winter, it's proof that global warming is a scam. if it gets real cold (below 10 degrees F), does it snow? rarely. it usually snows when the temp is 20 and above. that's the norm for here in the midwest, anyway.

natas, i apologize if it seems i'm singling out you. that is not my intent. again, sorry. it slays me when people such as beck, limbaugh, palin, coulter, and the like claim the earth isn't warming. as for gore, i'm not a fan of him, either.

Well...everyone can "debate" this till the planet is to far gone to save. I've been on this planet for 56 years and have seen the changes with my own 2 eyes. I don't need a politician or scientist to tell what I can see and experience for myself. And all the links and mounds of long winded findings won't make any difference. This planet is in trouble and unless people accept that all the debates won't make a difference either. So...lets just make a documentary for who or whatever inherits the planet after we're gone. Maybe they can sit and watch it and won't make the same stupid mistakes we did.

And as far as scare mongering...that's exactly what is needed...people need to be scared to death before they get off they're collective asses and do anything. Unfortunately it will more than likely be to late by then.

"It is easier for a president to tell a lie, than for a beggar to tell the truth."..."If you tell a lie enough times it becomes the truth."

Green is the new beige.

World temperatures have fluctuated for centuries, dating back to well before Biblical times, but that has more to do with natural occurrences than anything mankind could possibly have done to the planet.... and this 'global warming' thing is a crock of shit, designed by corporations to part us from more of our money.  For example, solely based on Rudd's proposed emissions trading scheme, electricity providers here in Oz plan to increase the cost of power to consumers by 50% next month... 75% in the near future if a proposed 40% mining tax goes ahead.

Yes, mankind needs to clean up its act, but for crying out loud, don't swallow this corporate greed thing called "global warming".  There are other, more natural causes as to why the planet experiences weather fluctuations... volcanoes and earthquakes, for example.  Mother nature has and will always will have a greater impact on the planet than man... though we could do to stop cutting down one of the greatest environmental cleansers we have... the world's rainforests.

It requires more in depth analysis than years of flying weather balloons. It's a trend, that doesn't mean it will be a constant increasing temperature. Also, read up on the signs on global warming....in a scientific journal, not the internet.

There aren't enough factors measured in this time period. We do not know enough to hypothesize about a time period with that range.

Global warming isn't just about a steadily increasing temperature. Read my original post.

Carbon dioxide has a ripple effect on other factors on the planet, which can cause a change in biomes. No one ever said the planet was going to "burn."

Temperature has never been constant on this planet.

Try talking to a scientist about it. It seems anyone will find an excuse to avoid dealing with evident problems. The chemical properties of carbon dioxide cannot be debated, as well as its correspondence to mass extinctions throughout history.

The oil most likely would not be floating on the world's oceans if man had not interfered/dug it up/drilled for it.

And the rising mercury levels in some world rivers... that would be man's doing again, manufacturing effluent being washed into waterways.

Hemlock, was used for remedial/medicinal purposes, not just sinister ones.

The thing here is that all these natural element are largely inert if left in their natural states.  It is usually mans intervention when environmental disasters occur involving these (and other) elements.  So yes, mankind needs to clean up its act and be more 'planet friendly', but at the same time, we need truth from out governments and corporations.... and right now we're not getting it.

No point talking to scientists!   Most of them are corporate lackies being paid to do corporate bidding... to find favourably for corporate agendas/aspirations.  And many of the rest of them are eccentric peculiarities studying the mating habits of green tree frogs or some other exotic creature.

The bottom line in all this is... if corporations actually gave a shit about the planet, they'd have employed better business practices years ago... before they stuffed up the environment.  No, the truth is that most corporate big-wigs are capitalist pigs who care only about profit and getting rich quick.... amassing as much wealth as possible and bugger at what or whose expense.  This has been going on since the advent of the industrial revolution, greedy, profit-driven capitalists exploiting all and sundry, people and resources, and now that they have a few scientists on the payroll (like somebody has to employ them or the university loans never get repaid)  to prove they have/had planetary impact, the bastards want us to pay for their greed and monumental cock-ups through increased power and fuel levies.

When power and fuel goes up, so does everything else, but does anyone here honestly believe that our paying through the nose to 'so-say' fix global warming is actually going to work???  Pigs arse it will!!!!   We will pay more for less, few if any environmental measures will be implemented, and the big corporate bastards will reap hugely increased profits and run laughing all the way to the bank.

For the most part, science is based on theory and is often dis-proven and or amended later on... and I'll bet my balls this global warming thing (as is presented) will be dis-proven and revealed as being a fallacy to derive greater corporate profits.

Thanks.

First of all, it's naive to think scientists will ever agree on one subject. Second, it seems he and I agree about a lot of things. Yes, climate change is a natural process.....I pointed that out in my first post. I'm just saying we're accelerating the process, when we should be concentrating on slowing it down. Temperature isn't the important outcome of global warming, it's all of the other effects that I stated before. Yes, carbon dioxide is slowly increasing, and it would appear that one extra particle per 100,000 isn't statistically important, However, in science we know small things can have huge side effects. For example, one drop of Clostridium botulinum is potent enough to kill thousands of people. There's really no excuse for not being more responsible when it comes to taking care of the environment.

Similar, but nowhere near as much fun.

i am fond of beige macdonalds