Incredible amount of either misinformation or deliberate disinformation being slung around here. The IPCC statistics show that global warming ceased 15 years ago. We are not experiencing the catastrophes predicted -- the isle of Great Britain still exists; the ice over the north pole was supposed to disappear, but is larger this summer than in years; hurricanes are less frequent, not more frequent.
In Russia, climatologists are predicting a little ice age similar to the 1650 to 1850 cooling cycle. The Thames and the Seine and the Dutch canals froze over during the winters of that cycle. Vinyards in England and Germany failed -- that's why they grew grain for beer.
"United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author Hans von Storch told Der Spiegel that climate models are having a difficult time replicating the lack of global warming during the past 15 years.
“So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break," said Storch.
Storch said the models say the planet should be warming much more than it has."
http://news.heartland.org/news...e-models-are-failing
One of my favorite quotes:
"Regardless of whether scientists are wrong on global warming, current
European Union energy policies are the right ones even if they lead to
higher prices for consumers, Europe’s climate action commissioner has
said.—Bruno Waterfield, The Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2013"
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/57968
Got that, even if we are wrong, we are correct in taxing people to drive up energy prices -- making them poorer. That is the statement of the religious fanatic -- not of a scientist.
In America, about 20 people were executed as witches and the persecution ended rather quickly. In Europe, hundreds were executed and the persecutions lasted much longer. This spirit still exists in Europe and in the halls of US academia.