Comments on: Leave Africa Alone http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/ Energy Change for Climate Control Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ReasonReturns http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-506 ReasonReturns Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:30:50 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4051#comment-506 The article seems a tad biased to the man-made global warming hypothesis. Phil McG is right of course. As Bjorn Lombarg points out, there are higher priority issues for the third world than MMCC ideology. Disease, food and water have been problems in Africa for centuries. Depriving the populace of relatively cheap hydrocarbon energy is criminal just as it is to deprive ourselves of it in the West. Jo is confusing regional with global climate. This is as untenable as confusing weather with climate. The 20th century temperatures have been well within the geologically estimated parameters of the past 1,000 years. The majority of the modest warming over the 20th century (0.6 deg C) is likely to have been caused by natural variability. Dr Leonard F Khilyuk and Professor George V Chilingar (Geologists) University of Southern California estimates that about 80% of 20th century warming was natural. Since 1998 there has been no increase in global average temperature. The climate model scenarios failed miserably to predict reality, with their doom and gloom 'run-away global warming for the first decade of the 21st century. CO2 concentrations rose as predicted; temperature did not. Let's not waste money on highly uncertain computer scenarios for the future of the planet promoted by AGW advocates. Just a fraction of the money wasted on abating plant food would put nutritional food in the mouths of the people of the poorer nations. Talking local climate and weather, it's well below average February temperatures in the UK. I don't think we need build igloos just yet though... :-) The article seems a tad biased to the man-made global warming hypothesis. Phil McG is right of course. As Bjorn Lombarg points out, there are higher priority issues for the third world than MMCC ideology. Disease, food and water have been problems in Africa for centuries. Depriving the populace of relatively cheap hydrocarbon energy is criminal just as it is to deprive ourselves of it in the West.

Jo is confusing regional with global climate. This is as untenable as confusing weather with climate.

The 20th century temperatures have been well within the geologically estimated parameters of the past 1,000 years. The majority of the modest warming over the 20th century (0.6 deg C) is likely to have been caused by natural variability.

Dr Leonard F Khilyuk and Professor George V Chilingar (Geologists) University of Southern California estimates that about 80% of 20th century warming was natural. Since 1998 there has been no increase in global average temperature. The climate model scenarios failed miserably to predict reality, with their doom and gloom ‘run-away global warming for the first decade of the 21st century.

CO2 concentrations rose as predicted; temperature did not.

Let’s not waste money on highly uncertain computer scenarios for the future of the planet promoted by AGW advocates. Just a fraction of the money wasted on abating plant food would put nutritional food in the mouths of the people of the poorer nations.

Talking local climate and weather, it’s well below average February temperatures in the UK. I don’t think we need build igloos just yet though… :-)

]]> By: Micky D http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-503 Micky D Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:47:15 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4051#comment-503 Have to agree with the above ...this is racist ... reminds me of the Missionaries from the Victorian era ... wonder how some Greens would react to this ? Have to agree with the above …this is racist … reminds me of the Missionaries from the Victorian era … wonder how some Greens would react to this ?

]]> By: Sim1 http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Sim1 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:09:01 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4051#comment-493 "PS, Jo, your patronising cant about how Africans should embrace a poor, pastoral life, is racist to its core. Why shouldn’t Africans strive to enjoy the same standard of living as people in Western Europe and America?" What a pathetic straw man. “PS, Jo, your patronising cant about how Africans should embrace a poor, pastoral life, is racist to its core. Why shouldn’t Africans strive to enjoy the same standard of living as people in Western Europe and America?”

What a pathetic straw man.

]]> By: Phil McG http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Phil McG Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:15:04 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4051#comment-492 PS, Jo, your patronising cant about how Africans should embrace a poor, pastoral life, is racist to its core. Why shouldn't Africans strive to enjoy the same standard of living as people in Western Europe and America? PS, Jo, your patronising cant about how Africans should embrace a poor, pastoral life, is racist to its core. Why shouldn’t Africans strive to enjoy the same standard of living as people in Western Europe and America?

]]> By: Phil McG http://www.joabbess.com/2010/02/08/leave-africa-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-491 Phil McG Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:36:34 +0000 http://www.joabbess.com/?p=4051#comment-491 Exactly Jo, climate loonies should leave Africa alone. Africa doesn't need her hopes of raising living standards strangled by carbon-crazies and their fantasies about global warming. What Africa needs is economic development, which means more industry and more jobs, and more wealth for her people. Exactly Jo, climate loonies should leave Africa alone. Africa doesn’t need her hopes of raising living standards strangled by carbon-crazies and their fantasies about global warming. What Africa needs is economic development, which means more industry and more jobs, and more wealth for her people.

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