Global warming...

[oldharry]

50 years messing about in boats and I really can not see all that much change in the weather, except winters are not as snowy as the used to be down south. The 79 Fastnet was very bad - but so was the 1956 one. Yes we are in a warmer spell at the moment, but it has happenend before, and will happen again.

I am quite sure that we are not doing the planet any good pumping all these pollutants and gases into the atmosphere, but volcanoes have been dumping massive clouds of pollutants, CO2s etc into the atmosphere since time began, and sometimes with quite dramatic results.

So I think its a bit prtetentious to assume its all our fault. I dont think we are quite as powerful either at preventing or changing climate and other natural forces as we like to think we are.

The one thing that is certain about weather is its uncertainty. We do not really understand what makes our weather - and even the best computers and minds cannot tell us what it is likely to do in a weeks time even now!

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[Twister_Ken]

I forget how far back climate scientists can go when analysing CO2 content in cores taken from the Greenland ice cap, but given that there is over 2km thickness of ice, it is a frighfully long way. And never have they found higher concentrations of CO2 than we have at the moment.

Almost everybody who is professionally or academically involved in climate agrees that warming is happening, and the evidence in terms of sea level rise, or changing ranges for flora and faura is beginning to become obvious to bystanders as well.

I suppose there is a possibility that high CO2 levels and global warming are unconnected, but then again, maybe the earth really is flat.

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