Why, oh why, are “reconstructions” necessary to begin with? Place your sensory devices in areas that will measure the true ambient temperature. Someone, somewhere, sat down and calculated an average, a figure to be used for the readings in “urban”areas, to account for things like asphalt, concrete and other heat sink items. Now, forgive me my logical mind, but why in the he!! are you putting sensors in those areas in the first place? Further, the “average” reconstructor figure will inherently have problems with it because it cannot, by definition, accurately predict what each urban area has as heat sinks. Not to speak of the fraud that can happen…

If Algore “donates” all of his proceeds to charity, how is it he can afford two mansions (or is it 3? I forget) which have a larger “carbon” footprint than most 3rd world countries? Speaking fees you say? And what does he speak about? Global warming? Ahem. I think we can dispense with the camoflage that Algore isn’t in the global warming business for the money…

And finally, for the critical thinkers out there… We humans are SOOOOOOOOO powerful that we can heat the earth to a point where we will kill off millions of species and humans. Okay, let’s accept the premise for a moment. Now, tell me how come dinosaurs — who were reptiles, cold blooded creatures — ruled the earth so many millions of years ago? How is it that the earth was SO warm, it could support cold blooded creatures ALLLLLLLLLLL by itself with no help from the evil carbon emissions of today??? Before anyone can even get me close to buying into any of the “man-made” global warming nonsense, you’re going to have to come up with a real good answer to that question.

@jason the pink text is hyperlinked – in particular, the section in point 8 has lots of links to studies we invite you to read.

@Michelle – I think you make a good point about people feeling climate change’s effects in their own areas, and how this informs whether they believe it or not. For millions already feeling the impact (drought, storms, changing seasonal patterns, animal migration, pest infestation and on it goes) the reality is impossible to ignore.

No. 9 is winding me up no end at the moment (eg. my rant at Donald Trump last week). So much sloppy thinking being bandied around. It’s the weather. The weather! Not for nothing do we have the saying “changeable as the weather”.

And I’m really struggling to understand how people are saying the things they’re saying. I’m all for healthy debate about evidence and scientific methods and the like – but you can’t simply ignore the science or the arguments behind them.

They’re there to be challenged (that’s the scientific method – it welcomes challenge!) but the point is they’re definitely, solidly *there*.

I have posted several articles on the affects of climate change on my blog including the proliferation of the mountain pine beetle causing massive tracts of dead and dying pine trees which has led to devastating consequences for the ecosystem in British Columbia and beyond.

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