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Just finished watching Al Gores’ movie entitled “An inconvenient truth” and needed to do some digging on the global warming ‘”debate”.

Pro issue:
http://www.read-the-truth.com/ - Connected with the film.

Anti issue:
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/ - Points out that water is the major greenhouse gas.

The essential argument (as far as I can make it out):

Atmospheric CO2 Concentration == higher global temperatures
…Or that these two have a long history of being related, or proportional to each other over a long record of natural history as illustrated by the ice record:

Source

With recent Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations seemingly ‘rocketing’, as illustrated by the graph of more recent history (with the funny axis) and future human sourced CO2 emissions set to increase further with predicted population growth & industrialisation. It would suggest that global climate is about to change in such as way as to make life on Earth very difficult indeed:

Problem (as I see it) is that either:
(a) Greater atmospheric CO2 Concentration results in higher global temperatures, or…
(b) Higher global temperatures results in greater atmospheric CO2 concentration.

With (a) meaning we have to take action now to avert a major global disaster of our own making or (b) nothing much at all.

This dilemma is complex enough before you involve climatologists (with dodgy climate models), international politics (capitalism), vested interests (scientific and energy related) so as to allow real action to be delayed indefinitely. If there is a consensus on this from politicisations, expect it to come in the form of a new tax.

If this problem exists and some of the predictions turn out to be true:

• How does this overlap with current predictions on Peek oil, which appears to be inevitable and will become apparent in a similar timeframe (i.e. the next few decades)?
• What strategies can we utilise do to protect ourselves?
• Where should we live (will that house be underwater?), what professions (should I raise my children as a farmer?)
• Should we really be contemplating the potential slow or accelerated collapse of sophisticated human civilization or concentrating on issues closer to home that we can actually do something about?

Correction 14-11-2006
Apparently the UN report (which some of the above graphs are based on) are either misleading or fraudulent. The hockey stick. In the news or as a pdf. So much for scientific consensus.

EDIT 2007.03.14
Channel 4 - The Great Global Warming Swindle click

…How many times have you heard gold described as the “barbarous relic”? It is a favourite phrase of gold-bashers everywhere who are trying to make gold the object of derision…

Central banks: The real barbarous relic click

Definitely something I want to tryout. click

How Wall Street hovers up money from the little guys and how to get away with forgery. click