PersianPaladin

Interesting prognosis, and I hope it comes to pass. What tools/teleconnections/analogues did you use to help with your forecast?

Drought? So what? Have a watch of this video... I'm sure these buildings will keep us all cool... http://en.wikipedia....iki/Windcatcher Or .

These 'scientists' obviously don't study oceanic wind-systems properly.

This is an interesting read concerning the IPCC: - http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2010/09/real-climategate-part-2-why-ipcc-stands.html

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No they didn't. Otherwise they wouldn't be continuing to refine their work, looking into feedback mechanisms, debating the extent of future warming, etc. As far as I'm aware there is nothing within the uncertain areas of the science that negates anthropogenic warming OR future warming trends. The human-link to concerning levels of global warming is very compelling in terms of evidence, and it would be CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT if businesses and governments did not act now with the precautionary principle in mind. Again, it comes down to assessing credible risks and looking at the pros vs cons of taking action and not taking action. We cannot allow the oil and arms industries to all take us down a cliff.

Nobody said it's settled. But it's pointing in a very worrying direction and we MUST adopt the precautionary principle that any serious person in risk-assessment would do. http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2010/09/real-climategate-part-2-why-ipcc-stands.html

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http://www.energywat...0-07-2007ms.pdf http://www.sciencedi...5c6cddc44cbed20 Two studies concerning Peak Coal.

This is interesting: - The man behind the technique: - http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/people/latham/

A lot of credible sources state that the world reached the peak oil production this year. Peak Coal is apparently scheduled to be reached in 2011. Peak natural gas is scheduled (by some) to be in around 2025. My understanding is that mankind must enact the precautionary principle and transition to a carbon-neutral economic system ASAP. This DOES require some form of government leadership; ideally at local levels. Scientists have been cajoled and pressured into muting their real fears about business-as-usual, while millions of dollars of oil/gas money goes to fund the denialists. Although I think some of the more extreme global-warming projections are also perhaps questionnable? Overall, we will be seeing terminal depletion of our traditional mineral energy reserves across the spectrum within the first quarter of this century. Transition is not an option. It's a prerequisite for survival. http://mondediplo.com/blogs/sliding-toward-climate-catastrophe

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley project that at current rates of fossil fuel emissions, we are set to reach temperature rises of up to 8C within 90 years. EIGHT CELCIUS? Is this just fear-mongering claptrap? I mean come on.

Thundery wintery showers rattling in off the North Sea...with some sun at the end.

Permaculture and an end to the capitalist rat-race. That'll do for me.

I really wish that New Scientist would make their climate-change related articles available to all the public for free. People need access to information on this important issue.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA I love this guy. "The existing guidelines were introduced after BBC sports presenter Rob Bonnet was caught making an aggressive masturbation gesture at Philip Hayton before trying to cover it up by pretending to choke and then punching himself in the stomach in what he later insisted was a 'sort of DIY Heimlich manoeuvre'." LOL

Good questions. Of which I do not have such answers.

I don't think we have much choice. Either engineer or perish.

A looming oxygen crisis and its impact on our oceans « Climate Progress http://climateprogre...ing-boris-worm/ As one reader comment says: - "I can understand the basic human need to deny bad news. I understand the psychology that fuels the denial machine. I can now fully appreciate the almost pathological need to deny AGW. If this is true then we should be deeply concerned."

It's the sun wot did it. Keep burning all those lovely fossil fuels and making BP, Exxon, Shell, etc rich and powerful. And anyhow, we're heading for a big oil shortage in just a few years..so burn away and lets finish the disaster that we started eh? Might as well? Screw all those poor lazy people...

His last sentence is only partially correct. Too many people are using too much stuff; yet these people represent a minority of the worlds' population.

I think there are ways that we can act now in order to prevent this from becoming a catastrophe. Shielding EVERY electrical device with EMF protectors is not plausible. But what the government can do is to ensure that essential transport-based services, oil refineries, mobile-refrigeration systems for basic food-supplies, neighborhood fuel-trucks, etc are ready and deployable at a regional level, etc.

Heh..a thick hay\straw and leaf mould mulch act very well to keep moisture in. They're used as part of permaculture beds even in arid desert areas. The nitrogen issue isn't a problem; since the nearby trees and mixed-clover bed work with beneficial fungi to move it through the soil.