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kos wrote:You should base your opinions of scientific issues on scientific reports, not political rhetoric.

kos wrote:The overwhelming scientific consensus is that climate change is happening and mankind is contributing.

kos wrote:So tired of having to repeat that on this board.

kos wrote:I work for an environmental NGO, I can say with some authority that we're basically fucked at this point anyways.

Occult Means Hidden wrote:You know, all those cool animations that simulate the effects of global warming? Perhaps you've seen some. One of those animations has a projection on what rising temperatures would do to the gulf stream in the Atlantic. If you are familiar about the gulf stream, it is what carries warm water and air to western Europe via warmer waters. The global warming projection shows the immediate effect to be extreme frigid cooling in Europe due to the breakdown of the gulf stream. It's not just western Europe, mind you.

Climategate has shattered that myth. It gives us a peephole into the work of the scientists investigating possibly the most important issue ever to face mankind. Instead of seeing large collaborations of meticulous, careful, critical scientists, we instead see a small team of incompetent cowboys, abusing almost every aspect of the framework of science to build a fortress around their “old boys’ club”, to prevent real scientists from seeing the shambles of their “research”. Most people are aghast that this could have happened; and it is only because “climate science” exploded from a relatively tiny corner of academia into a hugely funded industry in a matter of mere years that the perpetrators were able to get away with it for so long.

But as wisely noted by P. T. Barnum, and quoted by Abraham Lincoln,

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

As an increasing number of highly qualified scientists slowly began to realize that the “climate science” community was a facade—and that their vitriolic rebuffs of sensible arguments of mathematics, statistics, and indeed scientific common sense were not the product of scientific rigor at all, but merely self-protection at any cost—the veil began to drop on what has already become clear as the greatest scientific fraud in this history of mankind.

Australia has sweltered through its hottest decade on record, officials said Tuesday, linking a rise in heatwaves, drought, dust storms and extreme wildfires with global warming.

The Bureau of Meteorology also said 2009 was the second warmest year since detailed records began in 1910, with an annual mean temperature almost one degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above average.

Senior climatologist Dean Collins said the average for the decade -- about 22.3 degrees Celsius (72.1 Fahrenheit) -- was 0.48 degrees Celsius (0.89 F) above Australia's 1961-1990 benchmark average and an indication of man-made global warming.

"For the past six decades, each decade has been warmer than the preceding one," Collins told AFP.

"To get six, seven decades in a row that are warmer than the previous one -- it doesn't happen by chance. It's reflecting what's happening at the global level."

anyone who cant work out whats going on here should fuck off and do some real reading on this subject