* Carbon dioxide contributes to only 4.2 – 8.4% of the greenhouse gas effect
* Only approximately 4% of carbon dioxide is man-made
* Water vapor accounts for 90 – 95% of the green house gas effect
* 99.99% of water vapor is natural, meaning that no amount of deindustrialization could get rid of it
* There have been many times when the temperature has been higher than it is now including the Medieval Warming Period, the Holocene, the Jurassic, and the Eemian
* Increases in carbon dioxide follow increases in temperature by about 800 years, not precede them
* Phil Jones of the Hadley CRU, and key figure in the “climategate” scandal, admits that there has been no “statistically significant” global warming since 1995
* 2008 and 2009 were the coolest two years of the decade
* During the Ordovician period carbon dioxide concentrations were twelve times what they are now, and the temperature was lower
* Solar activity is highly correlated with temperature change.

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ALBANY, NY – The New York Association of Convenience Stores (NYACS) announced earlier this week that it strongly opposes the “obesity tax” on sugar-sweetened beverages that Governor Paterson proposed earlier this week while releasing his new state budget.

Paterson’s tax would slap a $1.44 fee to the price of a 12-pack of non-diet Coke or Pepsi, nearly 10 times New York’s excise tax on a 12-pack of beer.

“Besides artificially driving up prices, it would create a price differential more than sufficient to chase our customers away to nearby Native American stores to buy these beverages ‘tax free,’ replicating the cigarette tax evasion epidemic that has crippled our stores,” said NYACS President James Calvin.

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I love the way they renamed Global Warming to Climate Change a few years ago, that way no matter what the weather does it can be blamed on ‘Climate Change’. If the planet is getting hotter its because of all the hot air being spoken by the eco idiots. If it was 30C in February then I would be worried but its not, its winter and its cold so thats a good thing if you ask me.

- Mark, London, 7/2/2010 19:16

“The weather outside your window is not the climate.
Learn the difference

- J, Sheffield”

Oh give it a rest! It’s people like you who have destroyed any credibility in climatologists – even the good ones.

Climate and weather are inextricably linked, years of ‘weather’ equals ‘climate’. You can’t have one without the other.

- Elle, UK, 8/2/2010 5:06

Lol ! MalMonroe, Sheffield, 21:29 – Why can’t people understand about global warming?!!!

Because most of us have more than 2 brain cells and can recognize a scam when we see one.

Continue in your frustrated despair until you too see the light. You should get together, in your ignorance, with Mark of Kent, 19:05, and huddle in your shelter until this great danger has passed. Meanwhile the world will roll on as normal, get hot, get cold and do whatever else it wants to do.

- Paul, Rochester UK, 7/2/2010 22:09

Global warming = the biggest con of the 21st Century. It is nothing more than a ploy to hike taxes and restrict access to fuel, so the Have’s can have more of it.

- Stewart, Keighley Yorkshire, 7/2/2010 21:58

Even a grade school science class will teach you that in order to prove a theory you must test it against all other possible causes for the outcome you reach.

Note: YOU MUST PROVE THE THEORY. There is no scientific requirement for disproval.

If you cannot prove the theory then it is never accepted as fact or scientific law.

Global Wamring/Climate Change/Catch Phrase of the Week has never been proven, which is why it remains a theory. If you want anyone to ever treat it as fact it must be proven, not disproven.

Do date, nobody on earth can prove the theory because nobody on earth is capable of disproving natural causes.

Thus, it remains nothing more than a theory, which any true scientist would accept as being nothing more than an unproven belief with a notable lack of evidience supporting it.

- John, Dallas, Texas, 8/2/2010 16:02

So its the coldest winter in the UK for 30 years.

Its ‘Snowmageddon’ in the USA

Mongolia has the coldest winter in living memory

And Yet:
Mad warmists want us to beleve Global Warming is going to kill us all in 20 years, and we have to pay £Billions in Extra Tax to “Save The Planet”
What a Crock of *****!
The AGW scam has been well and truely unmasked in the past few months, no wonder warmist Climate Scientists have been lying and covering up the truth.

- Aslan, London, 8/2/2010 10:51

Global Warming Data?
Think of the answer that you want!
Choose the data that will give you the answer!
Throw all the inconvenient data away!
Publish your findings!
Sit back and accept the plaudits and pounds for being so clever!
Dont get found out!

- Barry, Cumbria, 8/2/2010 11:44

Mmm This Global Warming (whoops I mean Climate Change) really is a metaphor for liberals isn’t it!

No matter how much factual scientific evidence is put into the public domain the environmental fascists refuse to admit they were wrong.

The dopey IPCC (the said fascists leading body) said:-

Warming would continue to rise from 2001? It’s colder!
Polar bears were decreasing in record numbers? Of the 11 main kinds of polar bear only 2 have either stabilised or shown a slight decrease. Others have all increased.
Carbon dioxide omissions caused a warming effect? In fact it is the reverse. Indeed the planet was warmer 1000 years ago yet where was the industrialisation pumping out the Carbon Dioxide then?

Nothing they have said is true and only the EU the US and, unfortunately now they have a socialist leader, Australia believe it and are committing their respective countries to economic suicide by remaining disciples of it.

God Help Us!

- Patrick Quigley, West Boldon, 8/2/2010 12:39

Windmill huggers,
The majority of British people have made it abundantly clear, we do not believe in Man Made Global Warming/Climate Change. We do not support Green Taxes and we do not trust the IPPC, CRU, Gore, Pachauri or any other charlatans currently making money from this cause.

To those (ever shrinking numbers) who STILL believe…
Please find yourselves a religion that does not enslave the rest of us.

- LWP, Newcastle upon Tyne, 8/2/2010 23:49

Some much for global warming. By the way, Florida has had it’s coldest weather for consecutive days on record. Global warming is something the same clown who invented the interent, Al Gore, has deampt up! As youy Brits say, what a load of rubbish!

- Mike, Miromar Lakes, Florida USA, 06/2/2010 14:09

On the eve of today’s summit in London on the future of Afghanistan, sources told The Daily Telegraph that they hoped to be able to “reintegrate” half the estimated 25,000 Taliban fighters with promises of new jobs.

The aim is to “divide the insurgency” with the military continuing to pursue the “hard-core Taliban”, but sources say eventually they hope that even Mullah Mohammad Omar, the movement’s leader, will be part of the peace process.

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Tony Blair is to give speeches to a secretive hedge fund that made millions betting on the collapse of UK banks.

The former prime minister will be paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by Lansdowne Partners, one of London’s biggest, yet lowest-profile funds.

The Mayfair-based company reputedly made £100million betting on the demise of Northern Rock and £12million in a matter of days exploiting a dramatic fall in Barclays shares.

The move by Mr Blair  -  who is to appear on Friday before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war  -  infuriated Labour MPs.

Peter Kilfoyle, who was a defence minister under him, said: ‘I never cease to be amazed by Mr Blair’s money-making activities.

‘It goes to show that as far as Mr Blair is concerned, his political and public life is behind him and he appears to have no sense of responsibility to those who have been left behind.

‘His entire lifestyle is an ongoing source of embarrassment to everyone in the Labour Party.’

Bob Marshall-Andrews, another Labour MP, said: ‘Nothing that this man does surprises me any more after watching him in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.

‘It has gone beyond embarrassing for the Labour Party as he is someone who is now completely divorced from everything the party stands for.

‘The only person that he is doing more damage to is himself, if that were possible.’

Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said: ‘This is deeply embarrassing for the Labour Party, but is also embarrassing for the country.





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