Here is a reasonably good site that explains the basics of climate science in fairly simple terms without getting too simplistic, including such things as natural climate variation. The diagram showing the Earth's energy balance is probably one of the better ones I've seen.  The key point is that as soon as you upset that balance, less energy is re-emitted to space with a number of consequences. More energy in the system leads to warming and other numerous other means for that extra energy to be dissipated including more extreme weather events.

http://know.climateofconcern.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=article&id=12...

barnaby joe wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 9:24am:

While ignorance breeds certainty.

Soren wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 2:46pm:


It is certainly an art you've mastered, old boy. It's a general rule of thumb: the more certain your posts are, the more questionable. Whenever your posts contain never ever ever, we know you're playing dixie through your colostomy hole.

It's deconstruction 101, dear - a prerequisite for the more advanced courses in Pakistani rhetoric.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 7:46pm:


The old boy's still working on this one. The faculty requires a distinction average in ignorance to get into Honours.

muso wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 8:40pm:


True, but the old boy isn't having any of it. Now that's certainty.

muso wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 8:40pm:



You take me to be as stupid as you pretend to be, Mr Musician.

You leap effortlessly from CO2 as greenhouse gas to CO2 as cause of climate change.

Karnal wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 7:43pm:


Who knows what you are on about, but as you are a paki bvgger, we let you babble on. Rich tapestry, innit.  I for one would not want you to feel as if you were treated differently from any other stupid fvckwit just because you are a paki bvgger.
Carry on, you are self-disclosing more than you realise. Who knows> It may be therapeutic.

NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 5^th, 2011 at 10:01pm:



I am asking if you have the measure of your own medicine, viz awareness of your own ignorance. Yet you are running like a little girl, sticking your tongue out.

Medication time?? Only a smacking idiot would come back with that, hoping that in the midst of all the grinning schoolyard bluster nobody would notice that he had no answer. Medication time indeed. What do you take for intellectual inadequacy? Curl up and regress to the time when you were 10?


ANyone who ask you a question you don't know what to do with gets the same pathetic 'medication' crap from you. No pat answer - medication time.

Makes you look really thick despite your ability to spell.



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