Climate stuff

I have stated many times that we should take the necessary steps to reduce CO2 emissions around the globe but that the use of solar and wind is just a political ploy to transfer money from government to friends who in turn make campaign contributions. The cause of global warming was seriously hurt by people, without adequate information, making exaggerated statements about climate change. Here is a report issued yesterday which once again throws doubt on many of the claims. Climate scientists have been puzzled by the behaviour of the southern ice for many years now. The most commonly used models say that its steady growth should not be happening in a warming world (though the warming of the world is also in doubt, as air temperatures have been steady for the last fifteen years or more - and it turns out that deep ocean temperatures are not increasing either, leaving the "mystery" of the apparent end of global warming "unsolved"). This failure of reality to match up with climate modelling has, as some eminent climate scientists have noted, had the effect of "limiting confidence in the predictions" of severe warming and associated disasters this century. Meanwhile at the other end of the planet the Arctic sea ice has covered lesser areas in recent times. The lowest Arctic area seen in the era of satellite measurements was in 2012, but the three consecutive record-high Antarctic maxima of 2012, 2013 and now 2014 have resulted in global sea ice levels this year and last year coming out pretty much normal. ® I will repeat once again that the solution to the problem is to move from coal to oil to natural gas and finally to hydrogen. We have the natural resources to do this, it just requires commitment by government to allow private industry to move forward.