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

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Political neglect of global warming acts as environmental threat

By Cameron Roda

The only way to reverse direction in America and start combatting global warming begins with the American people. Naivety, neglect, ignorance and incompetence can no longer be accepted as leadership qualifications for political candidates. In the global race for energy independence, America cannot afford to elect officials with such a strong disregard for overwhelmingly accurate scientific data. Each United States citizen needs to stand up for one another and elect politicians who will not look the other way while climate change remains a serious threat. As a whole, the American population must step forward and set an example for the rest of the world to follow, leading with a green fist to preserve the well-being of all humans, in the present and the future.

http://www.thelantern.com/opinion/political-neglect-of-global-warming-acts-as-environmental-threat-1.3005130#.UTq5_9ZTaSo

[the_hawk*]

Iza as with most things you will find it comes under the 10% rule

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I think that there are plans to make Global Warning a part of the regular science curriculum in America .Not sure if it is here ?

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I'm OK to try to be a 10%  Hawk 🙂

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Have we been conned

Not me, and never have been. 🙂

By the way Kazza CO2 is not a pollutant

Neither is carbon 😉

are higher levels of CO2 a good thing ?

http://www.thelantern.com/opinion/political-neglect-of-global-warming-acts-as-environmental-threat-1.3005130#.UTrFKtZTaSp

While the number of global warming skeptics is dwindling, I still find myself in disbelief that a citizen holding political office in this country can make a logical argument claiming Earth’s warming climate is not man-made. The scientific data speak for themselves. Earth’s atmosphere is made up of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide that trap sunlight to keep the planet temperate. Prior to industrial advancement, Earth regulated its carbon dioxide levels naturally, but human development beginning in the 1760s has since disturbed this cycle, resulting in massive amounts of carbon dioxide being pumped into Earth’s atmosphere, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Since 1959, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii has collected data on the measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The first measurement at Mauna Loa from more than 50 years ago showed the Earth’s atmosphere held 315 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide, but measurements as recent as January show a concentration of 395.55 ppm, according to the Earth System Research Library. Data derived from ice cores drilled from Earth’s poles show that in the last 400,000 years, Earth’s carbon dioxide levels never exceeded 300 ppm.

HOW PLANTS RESPOND TO INCREASING CARBON DIOXIDE

As carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, plants become more efficient at producing their food and chemical requirements. They can allocate more resources for defence against pests. This is good for the plants but bad for the animals that eat them. Plants produce more toxins such as cyanide and it is thought the chemical composition of some leaves may make them unsuitable for animals which once relied on them as food. Protein is reduced and animals need to eat more leaves to maintain their level of proteins. Ros Gleadow warns that changing the composition of the atmosphere has broader consequences than just climate change. There are direct effects on plants, some of which don't grow so well under increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. read full transcript:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/how-plants-respond-to-increasing-carbon-dioxide/3031138#transcript

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that's what I thought and think too LL.

My OH has family in the UK.They too have had some extreme weather events over the past number of years.

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=winter-history;sess=

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Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide

By SARAH LYALLPublished: January 10,2012

WORCESTER, England — Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace.

Especially lately.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/science/earth/extreme-weather-grows-in-frequency-and-intensity-around-world.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Winter hosepipe bans, floods in June, the hottest march on record - what is going on with the weather? 1 July 2012

Weatherman Bill Giles tries to explain our chaotic seasons

It is said that the British love to talk about the weather… and there’s ­certainly been plenty to keep tongues wagging this year.

We’ve had sunbathing in March, snowmen in May, and this week, enough rain to have those unfortunate folk in the North East thinking about building an Ark.

So what exactly is going on?

Well, it is what many of us ­predicted – that the weather would become much more severe as we go through this century.

March was the warmest on record, we had the coldest May, and April, while May and June were two of the wettest ever.

So, one minute we had the hosepipe ban, and then the rain came down – and wow – didn’t it just tip down! Earlier this month, the South East had three inches of rain in just three hours.

This amazingly heavy rainfall follows two very dry winters – and, although it’s not terribly ­scientific to say so, it does tend to average itself out over a period of time.

The big problem just now is that the jet stream – a fast river of air about 7.5 miles above sea level – is a touch further south than it should be.

read more;

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/winter-hosepipe-bans-floods-in-june-952317

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and do you think Juliar doesn't have a nice garden and shock horror has it watered?

Do you think all the lawns of Parliament house have been covered in wood chips?

be real its a user pays system 😉

They use recycle water for watering in Canberra.

[the_hawk*]

Thirty percent of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere over the past 150 years is thought to come from deforestation,

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/science/deforestation/

However, by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests humans pump billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

Even if all greenhouse gas emissions were stopped today, the effects from past activities will persist for many centuries,

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/science/greenhouse_effect/

Looks like the tax is really going to help :^O