Discuss: How to Be a Climate Hero

Silly and sad. Man made global warming is a hoax.

unlike trickle down economics.

I think the best thing we can do is nothing. Otherwise, by following Kyoto, we will certainly end up wrecking our econonmies while achieve no significant impact on temperature change.

Dennis Falgout on May 12, 2008
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and why would they do that. it seems you should just get back to basics it is almost high school stuff….

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/the-co2-problem-in-6-easy-steps/langswitch_lang/in

Deb Carey

No one disputes that carbon dioxide contributes to the warming of the climate.  However, the data (and models) indicate that the contribution of carbon dioxide is a small part of the overall warming and that there is no reason to fear that it will spin out of control.

paulm

I don’t know why they believe that the models that they have developed will project future climate temperatures.  Pride of authorship perhaps. 

The models have failed every test and have required massive infusion of new parameters and unsubstantiated estimates of various parameters; the effects of clouds for example. 

Yet, the continue to patch the models and make brave new pronouncements about the future of our climate.  And, each time they are proven as dead wrong as Paul Ehrlich was about population growth and food supplies.

yes, and the sad thing is, the climate models keep being wrong about how bad things are. it would be more considerate of them to fail in the direction of chicken little so we wouldn’t have to worry.

Many recent comments here seem to have one thing in common: the desire to continue with things as they are, to “not worry” and get back to focusing on “the economy”—-as though THE economy could possibly be separate from THE environment. It’s all connected, folks!
  Even IF all the climate models are wrong, a huge point is being missed here: we humans are clearly polluting water, food, air and land, gobbling up habitat and increasing extinctions, creating dead zones in the oceans and clear-cutting mountainsides, and on and on and on… all too clearly in the WRONG direction. Do we need computer models to tell us we need to change our way of living, when scientists are, for example, finding that our drinking water is laced with perscription drug wastes and plastic by products, et al?
    It is clearly not a good idea to keep going in our current consume-without-limit ways. And that is what bothers me about saying “Go back to sleep, everything’s fine, let global corps and the free market take care of the planet…”
  It helps to look at every issue from the largest perspective, not the narrowest. How do things on planet earth look from there? Do we need to make major changes now or don’t we?