If Earth’s warming is driven by man-made CO2, then what is driving the warming of the other planets?

joeroach - I would need ALL other climate factors discounted to show that a minor, trace gas is the dominant factor in our climate. Computer models that simply assert this are a joke.

So I would need to be shown that volcanic activity, Solar cycles, plate techtonics, ocean currents, cosmic rays and many, many other factors cannot explain the tiny amount of recent warming we have had in the past century (during our recovery from the little ice age).

The global warmers take none of those factors into account and simply assert that CO2 is the one factor that drives climate. So what about all past climate changes? What were they driven by?

The onus is on the warmers to prove their theory. I don’t have to prove that cliamte change is natural because history shows that climate variability is a fact long before humans could possibly have influenced it.

It reminds me of a passport picture of a friend that a male friend once said was ‘the sexiest picture of Kerry that [he’d] ever seen’. Kerry had been caught mid-blink and to my eye looked doped, not sexy. She certainly wasn’t feeling sexy at the time the photograph was taken, and the photographer definitely didn’t ask her to pout.

The question is, do these kinds of pictures cause children to become prematurely sexualised? This is what Rush and La Nauze suggest. When children become sexualised, they exhibit behaviours and are damaged in certain ways, and I don’t believe that link has been proven by the literature. That said, I’m going to read an American Psychological Society report on the issue and can come back with more later.

My only agenda is to protect the rights of my girls to wear and read whatever they want without being censored in the name of protection. My eldest, at 11, is becoming a beautiful young woman, and she prefers to wear adult clothing. What should I do, strap her bustline and force her into kids’ clothes? Why shouldn’t she be beautiful? If she happens to stare at you, you’d better bloody well not see it as an invitation, because it won’t be.

Incidentally, I take it you haven’t watched The Bader-Meinhoff Complex?

If you cannot set out the grounds on which you would changes sides, I am afraid, gentlemen, that your views are based on non-rational prejudices. Over to you.

Check out the UAH temperature data here: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2

I therefore conclude that this is completely normal variability. And it shows how ridiculous the shrieks that “Arctic ice is disappearing” are.

And by the way, just how many Eskimos have you spoken to about it?