Deniers' canard blown out the water

Gordon: "No such thing as global warming."

Peter: "Why do you say so?"

Gordon: "In the '70s scientists were predicting global cooling, now they predict global warming."

Peter: "So they got that wrong?"

Gordon: "Sure did."

Peter: "So... I thought you didn't believe in global warming?"

Gordon:

Peter: "Just read Realclimate! They now have a study on what climate scientists really were saying in the '70s."

clipped from www.realclimate.org "How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?" If, indeed, climate scientists predicted a coming ice age, it is worthwhile to take the next step and understand why they thought this, and what relevance it might have to today's science-politics-policy discussions about climate change. If, on the other hand, scientists were not really predicting a coming ice age, then the argument needs to be retired. Between 1965 and 1979 we found (see table 1 for details): 7 articles predicting cooling 44 predicting warming 20 that were neutral In other words, during the 1970s, when some would have you believe scientists were predicting a coming ice age, they were doing no such thing. The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.

Pentagon eyes renewable energy in the field.

The shape of wars to come...

clipped from dissidentnews.wordpress.com The Pentagon foresees a two-front threat to national security: global instability spurred by climate change and a crippling dependence on oil. America’s economic dependence on foreign oil isn’t exactly news. But it’s being viewed with a new level of urgency at the Pentagon - not because military planners are worried about the price of oil (in planning and acquisition, the Defense Department treats oil as if it were a free commodity), nor because of any high-minded concerns about the environmental consequences of fossil-fuel consumption. The Pentagon is pursuing alternative fuels for the same reason it pioneered racial integration and developed the Internet - mission effectiveness is on the line. “You used to hear senior commanders say, ‘Look, we’re not built to be efficient. We’re built to be effective,’ ” Pudas says. But now, energy inefficiency is hurting combat effectiveness. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Iraq.

Latest global warming first: Climate Wars

We've already had the world's first climate refugees, are we having the world's first climate war in Sudan? Will climate change soon cause the world's first western agricultural collapse, in Australia, if the rains don't fall this month?

clipped from www.climateark.org All of the predicted catastrophic consequences of climate change are happening already, though not yet ramped up to their full potential for death and destruction. We are already witnessing the world's first climate change war in Darfur, Sudan [more | more2]; and the first continental scale emergency in Australia's "big dry" drought. It has been suggested that the real root of the Darfur conflict is ferocious drought and famine that since mid-1980s transformed Sudan and the whole Horn of Africa "Those who were prepared to kill, rape and pillage were drawn from the ranks of the desperate, ripped from their traditional way of life by a catastrophic change in the weather.. there is the very real prospect it [climate change] will lead to more conflicts like Darfur

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