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ravingdave gblaze42 and others. You are right to this extent. I am as guilty of simplifying the issues as are the anti-AGW (anthropic GW) advocates. This is not simple science - CO2 causes GW, measure increase in CO2 => know increase in temperature. There are very many feedbacks which affect what ha...

Simon, You reference: Using our cheapest known alternative electricity, we will have to deploy wind generators at a cost of $2.5 million per megawatt at full output. With a yield of 35% (the percentage of time there is viable wind), this equates to a cost for wind generated electricity of $7.1 milli...

ravingdave - The wonderful thing about these arguments is that they are complex. Look at one side and it seems obvious. So - read again your Milloy (who has a distinct political biass in what science he chooses to debunk!) article, and compare the science in it with this article: http://www.realclim...

gblaze42 - Here is a detailed rebuttal of the "little ice age" hypothesis (written as a polemic). http://home.iprimus.com.au/nielsens/medieval.html and here, for balance, is a "little ice age" anti-GW polemic http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html Read both and see which is more grounded in...

It is difficult, with a topic like this where many people have strong preconceptions, and there is lots of politics, to concentrate on the science. But that is what I want to do. jmc - you are oversimplifying. Simon is right to point out that historically CO2 has lagged temperature. And so saying "t...

Yes - Market solution is obviously the most flexible - with carbon trading & allowable offsets. Any such system tends to have inequities and political stupidities especially when first established, because the necessary agreement means sacrificing sensible maesures to placate political & industrial ...

Well in view of our differnce of opinion n another thread I gues I should reply to this. Is global warming a scam? This is surely a scientific question. One about which we can debate, revise judgements as more evidence becomes available, etc. Let us just suppose probability GW is NOT a scam is alpha...

Re China/India vs US Your logic here seems correct only if you view global economics as a zero-sum game - we will do it, fine, if they will! Thought you were an engineer? Re coal-fired plants Europe manages the whole issue no better. Global long-term constraints are very very difficultfor any democr...

Simon, re interpreting historical record. As you might expect, the arguments are complex, and it is easy to produce superficial arguments one way or the other. Here is a detailed analysis of the objections to Al Gore's ice-core data in his not always accurate & v polemic film. I think it answers you...

MSimon, I have just realised you raised a few other points I want to reply to. I am a great fan of planting trees. I like trees. The worst cause of environmental degradation in agricultural land is deforestation followed by topsoil denudation (if that is a word). I think the science on trees and CO2...

MSimon. http://landshape.org/enm/greenhouse-thermodynamics-of-water-vapor-and-the-ipcc/ Appears plausible and supports your argument - but read all the comments. The key issue is that one graph of WV is not the whole story. http://www.physorg.com/news146160316.html Note this is new & better quality ...

Humans evaluate risk in a weird way. We don't allow aircraft to fly which are slightly flakey - and get horrified by the very occasional accidents. On the other hand we happily let use of asbestos and low-level background exposure store up future mesothelioma cases (cases rising in UK in spite of st...

Man made global warming is a hoax. A wallet extraction scheme. Less than 1/2 of Americans are convinced. I have actually studied extensively the technical arguments in favor of AGW and they are shoddy at best and quite possibly a fraud. You are right (I guess - but being in UK have not seen latest ...

One of my closest friends at Cambidge was a very prostletising skeptic - determined to disprove as fraud any claims of supernatural activity. I did not disagree with his conclusions - I found his emotional engagement with the subject disproportionate. I always thought his faith was skepticism - and ...

Nothing posted here has indicated technology which can produce copious anti-protons (which can be used as nuclear reaction catalysts). All we have is mention of anti-electrons. There is no reason to connect generation of positrons with generation of anti-protons. So I am afraid this technique, usefu...