Another scientist distances himself from global warming.

[rhonda15]

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 83,00.html

http://digg.com/environment/No_Smoking_Hot_Spot

[Eddiepops]

No, that is enough. Enough. You have started how many threads on the same subject now? ALL of this can go into one thread, is it not acceptable to start multiple threads on the same subject.