Thanks for the replies and links! I really think we should create a special pirate climate taskforce, indeed, there is passion here. <br><br>You're right by the way, it's a really important topic and we should try to do something even if we are not sure about the effect of human activity, the cartoon illustrated it very well. As I said, I'm not against protecting our environment but we have to stay rational and not fall into fear-and-emotions reaction scheme. And if it is so important, then spend all the money to search for alternatives, or even forbid human activity which increase the temperature.<br>

<br>Even in the guardian's website you can see that the situation is not that alarming as many think:<br># a<br>"points to a rise of about three-quarters of a degree celsius in the past century" [1]<br><br>
then they agree it's not more than the natural increase of ~1°C/century already observed before the industrial revolution because we are recovering from the little ice age [3]<br>
<br># b<br>""If some newly discovered factor can account for the climate change then
 why aren't carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases producing the 
warming that basic physics tells us they should be?"   [2]<br><br>because as said, (co2 increase)/(temperature increase) is not linear as assumed in the IPCC model but logarithmic [5].<br><br># c<br>here is an article about the cause/consequence roles of temperature increase and co2 increase : [4]<br>
<br># d<br>
i couldn't find the story of the sun scientist who made the predictions, he died some years ago. But here an other article about cycle 25 of our beloved sun, which would peak in 2022 [6]<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/27/world-warming" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/27/world-warming</a><br>

[2] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/30/humans-causing-global-warming" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/30/humans-causing-global-warming</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/29/little-ice-age" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/29/little-ice-age</a><br>

[4] <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/09/a-study-the-temperature-rise-has-caused-the-co2-increase-not-the-other-way-around/" target="_blank">http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/09/a-study-the-temperature-rise-has-caused-the-co2-increase-not-the-other-way-around/</a><br>

[5] <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/">http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/</a><br>[6] <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming--Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Jan Lettow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janlettow@gmail.com" target="_blank">janlettow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Grist also has a series on this.<br>
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<a href="http://grist.org/series/skeptics/" target="_blank">http://grist.org/series/skeptics/</a><br>
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