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Try reading the science instead of the Daily Mail or that idiot in the Torygraph. A subscription to New Scientist will be a good start.

Who was making the numbers up? Source?

I can't see what predictions about a Millenium bug have to do with an historical record of climate patterns.

I don't know how you could have forgotten about him. Because you're a dummkopf, perhaps? It's certainly one possibility, don't you think? And talking, as we are, about 'tedium' - how come you can manage to post 3,000 times without my noticing anything of interest you've ever said? As Deppo says, this thread, and your starting it, is a classic case of Freudian projection.

When did you do a film studies degree? As someone rightly said much earlier, human population is, rather obviously, the key to understanding climate change now - particularly changes in climatic chemistry (as opposed to 'weather' for the lobally challenged dune). I've not seen ANY climate scientist claim that the earth is subject to climatic variations over time and that these have had natural causes. However, there is a broad scientific consensus that the earth's climate now is being altered by manmade interventions. As for 1,000 - a million years ago...care to guess hat the human population was then? If you do, you'll answer your own question. And what exactly is the point of a thousand years' history of the Prem to Man U's being top now? I think your analogy just self-immolated.

And yet 2010 is set to be one of the three warmest years on record, and the decade 2001-2010 is the warmest decade on record (World Meteorological Organization). These are hard facts dune - not predictions, but measurements of what's actually happened. Hard to swallow for anyone who takes the cretin's view that atmospheric scientists are in some kind of worldwide conspiracy, right?

Did someone drop a brick on your head half way through your post?

Thanks benj, I knew I could count on your support. Now if you could round up the other reactionary, synaptically challenged donkeys on here who've yet to vote, that would be great!

Do shut up, Deppo. I really want this one.

Apart from the need to say it, is there anything wrong with this though? Your suggestion that it's PC gone mad implies you'd rather people in UAE sit in their respective religious trenches.

Getting their Lordships to snort a few lines might liven the place up.

MacIntyre is the best comedian EVER - just like you're the bestest, least racist, least obnoxious and extremely not thick poster EVER. Are we clear now?

I was pulling his leg ESB - it wasn't the point I was making.

To elaborate (because the penny evidently STILL hasn't dropped), this thread is only incidentally a quiz; it's main point is to witness your witless rage. Good job so far!

Whole point of thread.

4) 32 weeks gestation (premature birth) 7) 2 Houses of Parliament (Lords, Commons) 12) 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for Mother Teresa (where were you dune?) 18- Talking 19 to the dozen 21) 4 chambers in a human heart 24) 4 Kings in a card game 29) 2 Es in a Heil Hitler 39) 128, two to the power of seven 52) 3 card monte. 55) The 7 sacraments, Catholic Church

You fibber! I went onto that thread and you didn't offer any kind of boiler help whatsoever. Not a damn thing. As for CERN, is this work being done by scientists or 'scientists'?

Well it seems Jeremy Hunt is more 'entrenched' than he seems. He's actually in the pocket of the Murdochs, breaking civil service rules in pursuit of his obeisance to the Great Rupert (and son). No wonder the Tories got Cable the elbow from this. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/22/conservative-links-murdoch-private-meeting

You! Back to your dark room! Now!

No I'm really not.

Okay God. Sorry.

Phil, I know I've been hard on you - but put down the bottle! This is all over the place. I'm trying to sort out your 'one line of code' stuff (unspecified) from your claim that the UK has the highest per capita carbon footprint (actually it's Qatar, with - guess what? - UAE in third place!).

Was I talking to you? Was I?

Oh, Im sorry. When you said 'engineer' I didn't realise you meant 'The Great Engineer', aka God. So my humblest apologies. But I don't need to give them do, I, because you are all-seeing. And I only thought 'dumbass' - such impure thoughts - when I read your earlier posts; I didn't actually write it - so will you forgive me?

Well, you took your sweet time. Slow google connection? First things first, I think we can both agree that the WSJ article is about as authoritative as anything written on here...or maybe a bit less. The author, according to his own blurb accompanying that piece, won a prize, you know! (For creative writing). Freeman Dyson is another kettle of fish - being as he is the eminence gris (really, I thought he was dead) of modern 'out there' scientific thinking. He is probably best-known for his musings about our imminent lives on other colonised, 'terrafirmed' planets. And such. What he says is interesting and challenging - he is, after all, good at that; it's what he does and has done all his life. He lambasts Al Gore (not a scientist but a politician) and James Hansen for said 'lousy' science. Hansen, unlike Gore, is one of the big gorillas of climate change science. He was among the first to warn of the onset of global warming in 1988 (Whitey Grandad was probably there but sleeping at the time because as he just said, he 'didn't notice'). Steven Weinberg - actually a more eminent scientist, in the sense that he is famous for actually discovering something and getting, unlike Dyson, a Nobel for it (and someone, to namedrop, I've met) - has an interesting comment: “I have the sense that when consensus is forming like ice hardening on a lake, Dyson will do his best to chip at the ice.” In other words, any consensus is like a red rag to a bull with FD. It doesn't mean the consensus is wrong. Contrarians like Dyson have their place, certainly. But his charges are asked and answered, even within the confines of that oh-so-long NYT piece. So humble apologies not accepted Phil. Try or grovel harder. Happy Christmas!