That article also says oceans accounted for half the warming as they cooled previously.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/a-comprehensive-review-of-the-causes-of-global-warming.html

Note how the models from a few years back show nearly all or even more than 100% of the trend caused by greenhouse gases, with a state of cooling if not for our evil pollution.

Now half of it was from the ocean cycle.  Astrology has a better track record of getting things right than the climatologists working for the IPCC do.

I told one global warming believer that it was a fallacy [not phallacy]... and he wanted to know what male genitalia had to do with it.

For mine, that says it all.... proponents of global warming are none to bright.

Only my avatar. Not yours.

I hate you.

Damn, that's the first sensible thing I've read here regarding the effects of GW.... like the ice age made dinosaurs extinct, a warming planet has wiped out the avatar population.  It's so sad, and I was just getting to like a couple of 'em, too.

What's sad it that the emoticons are probably next, and where would we be without those? 

I mean, without ... how would people know if I was jesting, being serious or just a proper twat?

Yup, this GW could have some serious repercussions.

And what if parts of our keyboards melted so only rude words came out.... and the mouse became too hot to handle and started doing all weird shit on its own

The result of that would be wholesale and undeserved exiling..  and Jafo using personal insults and extreme cuss words to enforce it.

So yeah, this global warming thing is more than just scary... it's causing downright terror and trepidation.

Fixed that for you...

It isn't known as Global warming anymore. It is now called "Climate Change" or "Man made climate change" and it is still a big a hoax as ever.

A natural cycle yes but one that has been accelerated by the emission of greenhouse gases. What's happening now is the result of 60 years of polluting our atmosphere. Climate change normally takes centuries, not decades. Predicting the weather is nowhere's near an exact science. There are more misses than hits. Sometimes they get it right but only with regards to large weather systems than can be tracked. There are just too many variables to take into account. Note also the severity of recent storms, on the increase. Not the storms themselves but the power they contain. Also the hurricane season has been a bust, a handful of named storms. Not really an indication of climate change, just another fluctuation. Many studies have been made by various groups all interpreting the data differently, hardly any consensus among them. Then there was the hoax. Made by those who had their own agenda for whatever reason. No one will know with any certainty until a 'serious' study is made by those who actually know how and that can only be done over a period of time without prejudice, bias or catering to any special interest.

Ok...I'm done.  

The fact is, technology and science have provided us with ways to monitor and measure weather patterns like never before.  However, while that may assist us in these modern times to know when to batten down the hatches, we have no accurate historical records to compare these new measurements to, and thus we are only guessing that these are new phenomena, that global warming is man made and has never occurred before. 

Yes, mankind needs to clean up its act, but let's be honest about it and do it because we should, not because vested interests have devised a plan to part us from more of our money with bullshit computer models that paint the picture far blacker than it needs to be.

I can say one thing for sure. I'd prefer a global temperature increase than another ice age.

We could adapt to increased temp much easier than a lowered temp. Besides, increased CO2 and warmer climate makes for better plant-life growing conditions. Look at China, the air quality is bad but daaaamn those trees are green and healthy.

In my opinion, we still know far too little about the larger cycle of our planets temperature. We know there was a massive ice age where the global temperature dropped. But we don't know for sure why. We also can't tell what the temperature was before then, it's all just guess work. This planet has been around for far longer than we have been able to measure the temperature and our records are miniscule when compared to the age of this world.

Also, the major flaw I see in the arguments for man made warming is that it assumes the natural production and absorption of CO2 is relatively 'fixed' which is crazy. higher concentration of CO2 and warmer climate means rapid plant growth which in turn increases CO2 absorbed by plants while also providing an increase of food for herbivores which in turn increases food for carnivores and so on. This planet has a pretty awesome self balancing system, it is not as fragile as people make it out to be.

Also, it is in a constant state of change. To expect this world to stay in a fixed climate and state is stupid, I instead think we should be more focused on developing our technology for adaptability rather than taxing people into the ground to try and control the weather.

You fix problems with innovation, not with taxing people.

Not really. Think Northwest Passage and not the movie, where none has been before. Several countries are already vying for possession of resource rich areas. Ice bergs the size of Manhattan while not unusual more than one is in a short span of time. A huge crack in a glacier preceeded one of those breaks and was documented. A Virginia beach, White Sands, has shrunk to just a few feet. There's more...I just gotta find it. Lol 

Too many people have a quaint perception that 'global warming' means the world universally gets systematically hotter....everywhere.

One good reason why 'climate change' is now the prefered title.

Other than that....everything that could be said about this topic was said in page one.

The following 89 pages are simply tedious repetition.

Global warming, climate change... getting hotter/colder by the degree, whatever they want to call it, still don't change thing.  Vested interests saw a way to part Average Joe from more of his money by throwing us a bogus weather report.

First it was global warming, and when that was proven to be wrong, incorrect, bullshit they changed the name to climate change....

Hmmm, one has to wonder what the fech they're going to call it when that's proven to be natural fluctuations and no amount of money is going to fix it?