There is a website that boasts a shit-load of scientists signing a petition against global warming... Possibly started by the end of the 1990s, they have gathered a massive 31,487 signatures in the US alone, from scientists of which a massive 9,029 have a PhD and if my recollection is correct about three climatologists. 

Of course should you have learnt political "science" or economic "science" you still counted as a scientist. We all know that politics and economics are ART FORMS, not sciences. As well, there are, in the US, an enormous amount of religious studies that is passed as sciences of religion...

Meanwhile several millions of real proper scientists are studying with boring data crunching, the changing state of the planet. 

What is fascinating as well here is the second paragraph. After poopooping the science that analyses global warming and demanding it stops making unsubstantiated dire predictions, the cads make the statement that: "Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plants and animal environment of the Earth." Whoa...

Fan-bloody-tastic. All the animals on the way out towards extinction, please do not turn off the lights... Should they have chosen the words beneficial to our crop and cattle, I could have coped with the statement for a profitable couple of years. But NATURAL plants and animal environments? We're destroying them at a rate of knots anyway, or taking them to grow crops that there won't be much to look at by 2050.

But in the end, the relationship between carbon dioxide and rising temperature is to be accepted. The geological record clearly demonstrates this strong relationship, whether we think temperature rise first. With more than 400 ppms of CO2, of which nearly half has been added in the atmosphere by humans burning carbon since the industrial revolution, there is no two ways that climate is going to change to the warmer. It is changing to the warmer.  This is called global warming, which is also observed through the melting of glaciers, the rise of oceans and the warming of the atmosphere and the seas. 

That 31,487 scientists decided to be moronic is their own choice to show they don't deserve the appellation...

France will become warmer and rainy by the end of the century, with more extreme weather events, concludes a report to the Minister for Ecology Segolene Royal, Saturday, Sept. 6, who announced on this occasion measures energy savings in public buildings and social housing. 

Commissioned by the Department in 2010, the report on climate change in France by 2100 appears just before the presentation to Parliament of legislation on energy transition, which should be a landmark legislation of the quinquennium. 

UP TO 5 ° C TEMPERATURE RISE 

According to the team of experts led by climatologist Jean Jouzel, 2050, France will show an increase in average temperatures metropolis of 0.6 ° to 1.3 ° C compared to the years 1976-2005. In summer, this would increase to 2 ° C in the southeast. Then, over the period 2071-2100, this trend will worsen with an average temperature rise of 2.6 ° C to 5.3 ° C and "could be well over 5 ° C in summer" in the southeast. 

The weather extremes - heat waves, droughts, heavy rains - will be stronger: by 2100, heat waves of summer may exceed 20 days in the southeast, or 40 days in the worst case scenario. We must also expect more droughts in the south, an additional 2 to 8 days, sometimes affecting the whole country. 

MOST POWERFUL TROPICAL CYCLONE 

However, the cold waves of winter are becoming scarce, with 6-10 cold days and less, especially in the north. France should see a slight increase in rainfall in summer and winter, between 0 and 0.42 mm / day on average. Extreme precipitation will they, increase in the second half of the century a large part of the metropolitan area, an increase of more than 5% up to 10% in the northeast.

read more: http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2014/09/06/la-france-va-devenir-plus-chaude-et-la-meteo-plus-extreme_4483222_3244.html

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013, propelled by surging levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to a new United Nations report.

The UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) annual report also found that oceans, which absorb the emissions, have become more acidic than ever.

"We know without any doubt that our climate is changing and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels," said the head of the WMO Michel Jarraud.

"We must reverse this trend by cutting emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases across the board.

"We are running out of time."

Concentrations of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide all broke fresh records in 2013, the report said.

Global concentrations of CO2, the main culprit in global warming, soared to 396 parts per million last year, or 142 per cent of pre-industrial levels - defined as before 1750.

That marked a hike of 2.9 parts per million between 2012 and 2013 alone - the largest annual increase in 30 years, according to the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

The report also showed that so-called radiative forcing, or the warming effect on our climate attributed to greenhouse gases like CO2, increased 34 per cent from 1990 to 2013.

A quarter of emissions are absorbed by the oceans, while another quarter are sucked into the biosphere, naturally limiting rates of warming gases in the atmosphere.

But CO2 remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years and in the oceans for even longer.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-09/greenhouse-gas-levels-in-atmosphere-hit-high-in-2013/5731716

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The level of CO2 announced here (396 ppm) is the average around the globe including places where the concentration is lower (or should be), such as polar regions. I often state more than 400 ppm, which the Hawaii observation in the stream of industrialised nations emissions but in the middle of the Pacific.

The natural pay-back of our addition of extra CO2 is not going to be pretty.

Australia is without a science minister for the first time in decades and some scientists now refer to the missing minister as "our invisible friend". The absent minister symbolises the current ambivalence of the Australian political right to science.

That ambivalence turns to open hostility when it comes to climate science. Five years ago Tony Abbott dismissed the science of climate change as "absolute crap" and that statement still resonates. Now, we are seeing more worrying developments.

Scientists hiding and manipulating data? Mysterious time travelling forces? Easily debunked myths being repeated as facts? Plucky amateurs and bloggers saving us from professional scientists?

Such notions are traits of pseudoscience and would be mocked if being promoted by crystal healers. Unfortunately we are hearing such nonsense being repeated by right wing media, government advisors and MPs.

Over the past few weeks there has been a concerted attack on the Bureau of Meteorology's temperature data. That data, taken with dozens of weather stations, shows temperatures increasing across Australia over the past century.

The warming trend is clear from both raw data and processed "homogenised" data. The homogenised data accounts for changes in data quality, including artificial jumps in temperature produced by relocating weather stations. For example, in rural towns many weather stations were moved from post offices to airports.

The Australian newspaper is publishing attacks on the Bureau's temperature record and the homogenisation process. These attacks are not based on published scientific studies, but instead rely heavily on the claims of former Institute of Public Affairs fellow, biologist and blogger Jennifer Marohasy.

The attacks use the pseudoscience tactic of selecting just a few towns where the homogenisation removes artificial cooling, while ignoring more towns where both the raw and homogenised data show warming. A few potential errors in the data have been highlighted, while ignoring the fact that warming across Australia is seen in both raw and homogenised data utilising millions of individual measurements.

These attacks on the Bureau of Meteorology have combined sloppiness with denigrating professional scientists. Is the Bureau really unwilling to provide 20th century data for town of Bourke? No, that data is freely available from the Bureau's website. Was the vital Stevenson Screen dumped from the Bourke weather station in 1996? No, the Bureau's catalogue has a photo of the Stevenson Screen at Bourke's current weather station. Is the Bureau hiding its methods? No, Blair Trewin details the Bureau's methods in a scientific paper.

Despite the attacks on Bureau of Meteorology having little basis in fact, they are gaining traction amongst right wing MPs and commentators. Backbench MP George Christensen tweeted "It's time for an official investigation of Bureau's handling of temperature records". Columnist Miranda Devine has claimed the Bureau's actions are "fraudulent".

By the way, please read about the "impending ice age" and the dam between Norway and Greenland to stop it: prediction 1959: self-driving cars and fishy walls by 1984...

read article above re incoming Ice Age... Dick Warburton and Maurice Newman are idiots. Tony Abbott is a deceitful idiot.

Climate Summit: European Union surprised Tony Abbott will not attend high level climate talks

World leaders including US president Barack Obama and UK prime minister David Cameron will attend the UN secretary-general's Climate Summit.

Mr Abbott will not be attending, despite the fact that he is due to attend a UN Security Council meeting in New York the next day.

EU commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard said it came as a surprise.

"It is, of course, I think, a pity that not everyone is going," she said.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/eu-climate-chief-surprised-by-australia27s-un-summit-snub/5745908

Surprised? Are they idiots who have not worked out yet that Tony is a turd opposed to the concept of global warming?

New research has linked tropical heat with higher rates of anxiety, stress and hostility, as well as fewer hours of sleep, reduced appetite and lower energy levels.

The study has been released as northern Australia enter the monsoonal build-up - the period of extreme weather tension known locally as "mango madness".

The research, which was conducted by Sue Coleman and Dr Mary Morris through Charles Darwin University, could have implications for occupational health and safety laws.

It found workers labouring under the Darwin sun typically had poorer mental health than their colleagues in air-conditioning.

Protective clothing often made the heat stress worse.

Sleep length, mood, appetite and energy levels decreased in the build-up relative to the dry season, according to the study.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-07/mango-madness-mental-illness-tropical-wet-season-build-up/5795852