To get back to the subject, can I add to the debate by pointing out that
1) Methane has eight times the low energy heat-absorbing quality of CO2; should we be thinking of shooting all cows and other ruminants, worldwide? (My God, think how much methane a single elephant can produce in a lifetime! :shock: )
2) Chloro-FluoroCarbons (Good old CFC's) can absorb
one hundred and twenty times more than CO2... My question is, with all the CFC's floating around over the Antarctic, why is it cooling? (Fair do's, it
IS getting irradiated in exchange)
3) Ice cores... isotope ratios show that global temperature was higher 100,000 years ago than it is now... which shows two things... they still had ice at the poles... and bloody hell, those Australopithecines knew a thing or two about lighting fires
Me? I'm a Sun Worshipper; we haven't been around long enough to know what the sun gets up to on an 11,000 year cycle, we can only hazard a guess based on Ice Ages (- which, by the way, we ought to be in, right now.)