Who is rightin the great debate?

[Satcomer]

I just saw this video. Who is right, the people in the video or their detractors? I was particularly interested in the solar correlation to global warming.

 

[lurk]

I would say that the detractors are. Even those who appeared in the film were very disappointed with the results. This quote from one of the scientists in the video says a lot.

Channel 4 now says they were making a film in a series of "polemics". There is nothing in the communication we had (much of it on the telephone or with the film crew on the day they were in Boston) that suggested they were making a film that was one-sided, anti-educational, and misleading. I took them at face value---clearly a great error. I knew I had no control over the actual content, but it never occurred to me that I was dealing with people who already had a reputation for distortion and exaggeration.

So they were intentionally distorting things to make a polemic. Really just head over to http://www.realclimate.org/ and they have the whole thing ripped apart and discussed into the ground.

 

[Rhisiart]

The notion that solar activity significantly effects Earth's temparature is not new. However, it seems to have got hidden amongst all the hubris of global warming fears.

Furthermore, the amount of CO2 emissions produced by human activity is tiny compared to CO2 produced daily by the sea, volcanos, decaying plants and farting animals (especially me).

Like many others, I take the view that global warming is natural and historic (i.e. the Earth has seen it all before many times). However, I also accept that our planet has never had to deal with man-made pollution before.

I would like to know whether man-made CO2 could ever really influence the natural cycle of global warming and cooling.

Given the conflicting views amongst scientists, I feel the answer is still not within our grasp.

 

[Decade]

Natural, not natural, that matters not to me. What matters is the social disruption as we adapt to the new climates.