Barry Gore #111 when your argument takes the other anthropogenic sources of CO2 (power generation etc.) into account it'll have some relevance to the debate. In other news, the weather here is glorious today, and that proves absolutely nothing. Random #108 Pastafari!

Don't worry, the magical sky fairy will make everything alright. Just say your prayers, because he won't if you don't.

Fully 95% of the carbon dioxide, now identified by Greens, i.e., U.S. and worldwide environmentalists, as a form of pollution, is produced by natural sources such as evaporating seawater, decaying organic matter, and from plant and animal respiration. Each year, 157 billion metric tons is released in the atmosphere. Of this amount, barely 457.2 million tons comes from cars and trucks. According to American Enterprise Institute researcher, James Johnson, "Eliminating all U.S. gasoline powered vehicles would reduce worldwide carbon dioxide emissions by 0.18%." Less than one half of one half of one percent

Maybe David Icke was right, problem, cause and solution- It’s the illuminate at work, giving them trillions of dollars will not stop the glaciers melting, it will not stop the polar caps from receding, what it will do is make some very despicable people very wealthy and very powerful. Why do you think the people who have caused all the environmental problems we have, now have the solutions, if you just give them all your money. Let us not forget all the money that was lost due to the recession ( the banking ponzi scam eventually collapsed), and now surprise surprise we have a conference that is attended by all the same people suggesting that we give them money and they will fix up the environment. BS

GL #96 "not many people dispute that there is a change in climate but many people dispute that it is caused by human influence." Yet the two most prominent scientists on the 'denial' side, McIntyre and Lindzen, agree that it is caused by human influence. They agree it's going to warm the planet further. They disagree on how much. Who were the people you were quoting? Sam #97 Can you please tell me exactly where I am "highlighting funding interests in an attempt to discredit"? I didn't say Exxonmobil's research was flawed, I just pointed out that they had done some. You made a cynical remark about insurance companies, though, which by your own McLogic is a strawman in itself. Fish, meet barrel.

@ Doc #56

Didn't you know that global warming is a direct result of shrinking numbers of pirates? The recent increase in piracy in the last decade can even account for the cooling since 1998!

Plot the data on excel if you don't believe me.

This is so lame. The comments of skeptics here. I have read in these comments so many times that the Earth is cooling since 1998. There was no trend here leading up to 1998, it was an exception. There was a massive El Nino event and is responsible for this 'high' point, we have the facts here and we all felt the El Nino event. The Earth IS warming. Compare the last decade to all the years of recorded history before 1998 and you will see. Stop picking on 1998 as evidence of a conspiracy. What a joke! Come on people. Just wait till the next big El Nino event then 1998 records will get smashed and thats NOT a good thing.

I'm living in the States at the moment and many of these comments display the same ignorance people here have about the Earth, its systems and how we are effecting it. I was at 'Glacier Nat Park' not long ago and lets just say there will be no Glaciers left to see in 10-20yrs.

Bring back the summers Wellington used to have in the 1970s! We haven't had a HOT summer for years. I remember as a kid not being able to sleep because it was too damn hot. Saying that we are warming down here is just a joke... I'm just not seeing it. I'm sitting with two layers of wool! It's nearly December and though hardly scientific I think it's good common sense to see this is a fabricated lie.

I'll go with common sense thanks.

joegore #88: If the anti-human and anti-freedom measures been proposed at Copenhagen come into effect, then I believe you are right: our children and our children's children will indeed have something to say. As someone said, socialism and central planning does not work at seventeen degrees; what makes anyone think it'll work at nineteen degrees?

The WMO says "The decade 2000-2009 was 0.4 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 average, while the 1990s decade was 0.23 degrees higher" Why don't they include the 1990's when calculating their average to compare the last decade to? If you really want to see what is happening with climate research, search for 'the smoking gun at darwin zero'