More man made Global Warming nonesense

The Register ran an interesting story today. Basically (surprise surprise) there seems to some confusion as to whether or not the planet is actually getting any warmer, much to the chagrin of the anti carbon crowd who are being made to look less and less credible on a near hourly basis.

The problem seems to be that the UK Meteorological Office's Hadley Center for Climate Studies are saying temperatures have been dropping since 1998. NASA say they have risen.

The best part of the Register's article is the suggestion that, if the world is cooling, we might halt the coming Ice Age by burning MORE fossil fuel, thereby releasing the needed CO2 to raise the planet's temperature.

The basic point being of course, that there isn't so far any actual proof, of any kind, that Carbon Dioxide actually has a measurable impact on the greenhouse at all, and in all likelihood isn't really doing anything much at all. Apart from making life possible on the planet, but let's not worry about that eh?

It's about time this was put to bed. This planet is facing some huge man made environmental issues which are on the back burner (if they are even treated with any importance at all) such as over population, food shortages, deforestation etc. Did you know for instance, in the last 200 years humans have removed HALF of the world's trees? Now THAT I can believe will have a dramatic effect on the planets' entire ecosystem. Forget buying a Golf Bluemotion (and in the process allowing your old car to go into landfill and poison the planet some more). Plant some trees.

Last week my uncle suggested I read what Bjorn Lomborg has to say about how best to preserve this planet as a habitable place for humans. In a nutshell, the amount we plan to spend pointlessly controlling carbon emissions is more than enough to solve some real problems - like the shortage of fresh water supplies, Malaria and HIV. Popping out for the book now. After planting a tree.