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80%? No, space heating hot water etc. for buildings accounts for about 50% of Greenhouse gas emissions. Passive housing and the design of super well insulated houses during the construction phase from the ground up is another important initiative and one which can reduce the energy comsumption of ho...

To me the important political question is can we afford to wait for more and better data. I can't see anything in the science that doesn't lead to an overwhelming yes as the answer. Depends what you mean by wait. If by wait you mean avoid the immediate expenditure of 10's of trillions of pounds by ...

It's not proxy data. It's a direct measurement of CO2 levels in air trapped in bubbles in the ice. Bubbles in ice have their problems. CO2 drifts in ice. That could lead to low and uniform CO2 levels in older ice. Which makes the CO2 in the ice a proxy for the actual CO2 levels. I find it interesti...

Have we ever tested the atmospheric effect in a laboratory? I.e. by placing a sphere filled with temperature probes covered in a material that lets in visible but scatters infra-red then shone a laser on it?

I found this paragraph rather interesting. Science is necessarily conservative. Once something is established as being an accepted model/theory/law, then it becomes the standard paradigm until it is shown to be flawed in a significant way. You may not like it, but in modern climatology, global warmi...

Despite these advances, observational evidence is crucial to determine whether models really capture the important aspects of the water vapor feedback. Such evidence is now available from satellite observations of the response of atmospheric humidity (and its impacts on planetary radiation) to a nu...

But OK. A 1 deg C increase from doubling from 280 ppmv. We are at about 380. At 2 ppmv per year we will get there in 90 years. In 90 years the natural evolution of technology will have us off fossil fuels without crash programs and mass hysteria. Suppose the rate increases .1ppmv a year. CO2 will h...

One link Jcarlton gave saying how tiny the size of the Carbon molecule was and how it was "physically impossible" a trace gas could affect climate really made me angry. Because doubling CO2 would cause an increase of 1 degree, maybe that's a factor of 3 away from a scary change in temperature, but ...

MSimon wrote:
If we are headed for cooling CO2 will be a non-problem (not that it ever was a problem) oceans will absorb it.

There was a cooling period around the 1970's, any evidence of reductions of CO2 concentration or increased carbon sink capacity then?

That it is safe to emit CO2 is not some trivial thing that any school child would know the answer to... CO2 has been up to 7,000 ppmv in geological time. No tipping point. OTOH man made CO2 has special properties (caused by quantum entanglement with humans) that makes it prone to wild temperature s...

"It is very sad that this sort of activity has occurred." At the very least it is borderline criminal, and may just be criminal. "But it proves nothing about human caused climate change." It proves we know nothing which is statistically valid about any climate changes we may be causing. "The climat...

As well as a group of people with long term totaltarian objectives: http://green-agenda.com/ http://www.clubofrome.org/eng/home/ http://www.soros.org/ I looked at your George Soros link.. it's not obviously a den of evil and iniquity, mostly talks about development projects in poorer areas and prom...

How do you justify that as not a problem. Easy. No one actually knows for sure if it's a problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification It might even be a net benefit to ocean life. A lot of people don't seem to realize the oceans aren't becoming acidic, they're becoming less alkaline. A...

jmc, that is silly. I would rather guess that the fleet is operated by the group of countries that pay for them. Also, it would be easy to secure this contractually somehow. Further, I think that noone is that crazy to make money. Besides, once it gets to cold, people will complain and politicians ...

The danger there is increasing the albedo with cloud seeding on a large scale could reduce the earth temperatures causing more sea ice which would itself be a source of albedo, you could then get positive feedback which could plunge us all into an ice age, especially if you do it on the wrong side ...