Have we been conned

[the_hawk*]

What is the truth

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261577/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-Met-Office-report-reveals-MoS-got-right-warming--deniers-now.html

[flashie*]

Sorry Karen that is a secret but WOW

More shenanigans.

[j*oono]

It's not World of Warcraft.  It's just Iza.  Interesting post Iza.

[just_me_karen]

Apt nickname, lion XXX 

[not_an_eloi]

No Joe its about that bird place

bird place, you say, how's about some information.

[not_an_eloi]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-08/climate-study/4561164

Earth on track to be hottest in human history: study

"Other studies have concluded that human activities - not natural causes - have been responsible for the warming experienced over the past 50 years."

[curio200610]

Updated Wed Jan 9, 2013

The Bureau of Meteorology has been forced to introduce new colours to some of its charts because of recent extreme heat in Central Australia.

Shades of deep purple and magenta have been added to the forecast map for temperatures up to 54 degrees Celsius.

The temperature range was previously capped at 50C.

What a load of hogwash...

That was just the media doing what they do best,     making a story out of sweet nothing.

I remember the interview they did with the BOM very well and the colour has always been there.........they just decided to display it more as the heat wave lengthened.

You seriously think there wasn't anywhere in Aust that didn't get over 50C before this year.................phffftttt.

I am not ancient in age but clearly remember heat waves before ....doesn't anyone else?

[lakeland27]

i remember what the weather used to be like quite clearly.

[izabsmiling]

Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'

Author of 2006 review speaks out on danger to economies as planet absorbs less carbon and is 'on track' for 4C riseThe Observer, Saturday 26 January 2013 20.24 GMT

Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he und...

In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The pla...

The Stern review, published in 2006, pointed to a 75% chance that global temperatures would rise by ...

He said some countries, including China, had now started to grasp the seriousness of the risks, but ...

"This is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette ...

Stern said he backed the UK's Climate Change Act, which commits the government to ambitious carbon r...

David Cameron made much of his environmental credentials before the 2010 election, travelling to the...about the benefits of wind power, and the chancellor's enthusiasm for exploiting Britain's shale gas...

Stern's comments came as Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, also at Davos, gave a gr...

"There will be water and food fights everywhere," Kim said as he pledged to make tackling climate ch...

Kim said action was needed to create a carbon market, eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies and "green" th...

He added that the 2012 droughts in the US, which pushed up the price of wheat and maize, had led to ...

"We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think the...

Kim said there would be no solution to climate change without private sector involvement and urged c...

the opening post is from the UK.So is this.

Is it correct that the effect of global warming isn't just hotter weather but more extreme weather events, fires , death of plant and animal life ?

[lakeland27]

yes iza. things like a years rain in one day. prolonged drought and  extreme cold snaps in the northern hemisphere and ice shelves melting a month later . its not at all orderly . these factors make it hard to comprehend for most lay persons being by nature chaotic.

[izabsmiling]

some may not want to believe if it costs them money I suppose and some may not believe or care about the effects anyway (yet they may perhaps about their money?).

It is costing and will continue to cost (and more than just money) if ignored.

If I just look at food supply I know that it costs us more to raise a cow if their is no food and water available...if that needs to be bought and brought in .On a larger scale that does and will impact on farmers and everyone who needs to eat.