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Hi Guys
Nice topic and I agree, global warming is a load of codswallop. Do any of you read Aviation and Safety magazine, especially the latest issue which sadly is also the last one as Gary has decided to call it a day. Anyway Cloudy Clarence was explaining why there is so much rain in Gauteng and drought in the Cape and he puts it all down to El Nino and Le Nino. Soon you guys down in Cape Town will be having floods and we'll go into a drought cycle.
Mac

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I think you would find very little support in the scientific community for the above statement.
The dissent there is what contribution anthropogenic factors are playing in it. Every major species extinction in the last 20 million years or so can almost certainly be linked to climate change. Or anthropogenic activity. The Indus valley civilization fell because of it. The Earth is, and has been, in a warming cycle for a very long time now. What is very unusual is the last few thousand years where unusually stable - and looking at the geological records it has been unusual - climates have allowed civilizations to arise. Never think that the we can "handle" climate change with ease. Billions of years of evidence show that living organisms can't generally adapt fast enough to survive en masse. However the effects are slow and insidious. It does not happen in a lifetime. However it is happening. One of the earliest effects that are noticeable is the changing species of insects in a given area. As insect life changes so do the species that eat them and the species that prey on those. One little piece of advice - virtually all species that have survived climate change without speciation have been termite eaters. So if you want to be sure of survival of your species better start learning how to eat termites!

My wife switched the only light in the house that was on, off on me while I was on the internet, then told me "Earth Hour"

California has the strictest pollution limits in the world for car emissions. The rest of USA & Canada follow suit. So how about the rest of the world catching up to the USA???
The USA has also been working very hard on clean energy, choosing to do it their way and not be dictated by others. China is very bad, growth of the economy comes first, never mind everything else.

I think it was 7000 years ago, the ice was over 2 Km thick over Seattle. Now it is generally above freezing in winter. Since the birth of Christ, we had a mini ice age, a large section of the population in Europe starved to death due to the lack of food production. Then there was a warm period where the average temperature of the earth was warmer than it has been in our living memory. All this before the industrial revolution. Hence, I don't believe we are responsible for the global warming that is taking place.
I do believe we should clean up our act, for the sack of nature so that we have clean air & water.

My friend Al Gore. He is my pet peeve. He has made ten of millions of $ out of climate change. His mansions electricity bill is what I earn in two weeks. He has made no effort to walk the talk, but to splash out & grow his boep.

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Is that not a common phenomenon on the sub Sahara African continent Sky?

Except ESKOM likes to call it "Load Shedding".