Global Warming - 95% certain that its our fault.

 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
 
 
But will it make any difference now we know it's almost certainly our fault?
 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
 
 
But will it make any difference now we know it's almost certainly our fault?
 
 

What do you mean "our" fault?
 
They talk about since the '50's and I wasn't even born yet! 

drewfx1

SteveStrummerUK
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
 
 
But will it make any difference now we know it's almost certainly our fault?
 
 

What do you mean "our" fault?
 
They talk about since the '50's and I wasn't even born yet! 

We're labeling you "Not a team player."

Old55
Less beans--less methane.  Simples.

So it's the Mexican's fault ?

I love it when they say "man made global warming is real...we're having the worst floods for 300 years" -- oh, so there were floods as bad as this 300 years ago? Well gee, what could they blame it on back then? 

craigb
 
 

 
Is that healthy?  That does not look healthy.

paulo

Old55
Less beans--less methane.  Simples.

So it's the Mexican's fault ?

And Boston--for the baked variety.  LOL

sharke
I love it when they say "man made global warming is real...we're having the worst floods for 300 years" -- oh, so there were floods as bad as this 300 years ago? Well gee, what could they blame it on back then? 

Zactly !

SteveStrummerUK
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
 
 
But will it make any difference now we know it's almost certainly our fault?
 

No. It will not make much difference.
 
The world population has been sustaining a massive plague for decades now. Unlike the bubonic plague, the only substantial transmission of HIV is via infected needle sharing (not drug addiction), or via sexual contact with an infected person. The epidemic has not been slowed by the obvious and simple expedient of using clean needles or avoiding dangerous sexual practices with persons of unknown HIV status. The infection rate is finally being brought down by the use of effective antiviral treatment. No such effective anti-warming treatment is on the horizon.
 
If the clear risk to an individual from HIV will not result in behavior changes that could save his life, the abstract and distant threat of the inundation of places where he does not live, or the loss of species that he does not eat or otherwise benefit from is unlikely to do so either. Add the pressure of a gigantic commercial and industrial system run by extremely wealthy politically influential people who as individuals stand to lose far more than the average individual if any change is made to that system, and the chances that human society will act to avert an environmental disaster that it causes are remote.
 
 

yorolpal
Just curious, mind.  But where exactly do you 5%ers get your info?  Are you all climatologists or some such?  Your tilting at a pretty definitive windmill, aren't you? 

Sadly, it's often easier to disagree with evidence when it doesn't suit one's worldview.
 
That makes it all go away.
 
In future, I think we may well be remembered as the generation who were in possession of all the facts, but were so selfish we did f*ck all about it.
 
 

no comment

95% of all statistics are suspect.
 
(Including the one above this sentence.)
 

backwoods
All the lobbying and celebrity endorsements make me skeptical. 
 
I have a friend in the MIT math department who says it is bollocks too. Just the statistical methodology is dodgy. He says it is a racket.

Perhaps you have an academic citation for this?
 
When I searched for papers questioning the statistical methodology of climate change on scholar.google.com nothing jumped out at me suggesting that it is a racket, but it is of course entirely possible I missed it.

Of course global warming is real just look at how many millions Al Gore is making off of it. Capitalism is a wonderful thing.

Whether or not Al Gore is getting rich off global warming has nothing whatsoever to do with the science that bolsters the theory. Al Gore does not have the global scientific community in his pocket. This is conspiracy theory at its worst. And having a friend in the math department in any university on planet earth who is a denier means "statistically" less than nothing...see what I did there? The overwhelming majority of folks whose job it is to study this particular niche of SCIENCE say it's so. I, for one, am not equipped with the evidence to gainsay them. Again I ask you fellers..are you?