You cant stop nature but you can chart it then tell the public its their fault and then tax them, the fact that your in charge of everything like emissions and making the right decisions about pollution in the first pace has nothing to do with it !

The fact that science shows the earth experiences ice ages regularly doesn't in any way change the fact that as humans we have introduced a new variable into the climate. While our reckless actions may help prolong a warm period on the planet that's no reason to continue polluting our air and water today. Personally, I'm a bit more concerned about the effects of warming over the next 100 years, not so much about an ice age 1000 years away triggered by earth orbit.

Reading some of these comments it is just disheartening. Science is the pursuit for knowledge using a method that is designed to either prove or dissprove a theory. Yes, theories do change as more information becomes available, that's science. Only ignorant people with no real understanding of science get this confused. Scientists throw lots of theories around, then over time those theories are either proved to be fact (at least as much as anything can be a fact) or dissproved. The theory of gravity, evolution, relativity, etc. Science encourages scientists to dissprove the theory. The fact that 97% of climatologists agree about climate science is no more a conspiracy than the notion that 97% of geologists agreeing that the earth is billions of years old. When the science shows something to be true you get consensus amongst most intelligent people. If new data becomes availalble that changes that truth then great, that's science!! Right wing cooks make the mistake of confusuing science with religion, a system based on belief, not facts.

This article is in no way contradictory. Any climate scientist will tell you that the earths climate changes independently of anything man is doing. Volcanos, asteroids, earth orbit, etc. all have effects on the climate. Our use of fossil fuels (CO2) simply throws a monkey wrench in an already complex system. The warnings issued by climatologists are simple. Continue pumping these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere unchecked and the planet will warm. What happens next is anyone guess. The oceans are warmed up and absorb CO2, albiet slowly. This in turns acidifies our oceans, but global warming melts our ice caps which dilutes our oceans, raise sea levels, and lowers ocean temps. Thermafrost melts releasing Methane (greenhouse gas). Massive hurricanes or a disruption of the Atlantic current; who can tell? The point is simple, our actions, or inaction, will have BIG reprocussions. Perhaps some good, but more than likely according the the computer modelling mostly pretty bad. Droughts, explosion of noxious plants, flooding, etc. The unknown is our enemy. What I do know is that sticking your head up your ass and pretending that man-made climate change is a hoax is not the answer.

So burning fossil fuels is good? Yay!!! Lol. The oil companies should use this as one of their adverts-Do Your Part, stop the Ice Age TODAY!!!

Sarcasm aside, it always amazes me the topic of global warming, climate change, cycles..... Do they really know what's going on? I suppose it's nice to put everything in a box and say, we are going to bake/or freeze/or do nothing-its a cycle.....

In the late 70s early 80s, scientific opinion, of that era, said that we were going into another ice age, 30 years on, we are in an era of 'global warming'! It is interesting that influential scientists, like Bjorn Lombourg, are attacked by green activists for stating the obvious, that the major influence, in climate, is the sun.

Yes, over population is affecting localised weather by stripping the land of vegetation but, if CO2 is such a major problem and as the world's population has increased by 3.5 billion in the last 40 years and as all humans produce CO2, when do we start the cull? Seriously though according to the Hadley Centre and BEST, the world's temperature has been basically stable since 2000, check the web sites. If this really is the case, then governments should be ashamed of the taxes they are taking which are killing the world's economy.

According to the latest figures, Spain can produce twice as much electrical power as it needs, unfortunately this is based on wind farms working. It is also very expensive, nearly twice the price of electricity from France (nuclear).

When will the greens accept that it is only via the massive subsidies that the tax payer provides that we can afford to build unreliable wind farms! Yes we should be saving natural resources, yes we should be finding alternative energy sources (Thorium reactors, hydrogen fuelled transport) but please let us accept that the sun dictates our climate.

If we just take the out the fact that the increasing solar cyclic activity has nothing at all to do with planet/ global warming ,and that the governments were making tens of billions out of all of this i might almost almost believe it.

All replies welcome even from all you well learned productive,s !

take a look at the sky news this morning where they were talking about the northern lights ,the guy being interviewed said that the sun,s activity was increasing over the next few years and the solar intensity was increasing to the point where there will be disruption to communications satellites.

Of course if you have a natural cyclic event like this and just leave out the solar storms bit you could call it planet warming or global warming ,then when the droughts come you can have charities begging for money to top up there pension funds ,the water companies can hike the price up, then the government can bring in more stringent mot regulations to save the planet and make a fortune at the same time as getting more older cars off the roads, killing 2 birds with one stone .

Did anybody notice over the last few years that a lot of government buildings have had their windows replaced with those blue tinted ones with the special glass that reflects and filters the sun light sun ? no i did not think so .

and what about the increase in volcanic activity across the world anybody measured the co2 there no i did not think so.

... I doubt it delays turning off the Atlantic conveyer...

when that goes, a New World Order commences.

There's only one certainty about climate change science and that is that it's extremely new relative to the duration of human beings, never mind the planet itself. The certainties of even 10 years ago are being superseded by newer findings and there is nothing clear cut about what is happening to planet Earth. Are we warming it up? Is it warming itself up? Is our now middle-aged sun beginning to spread a bit and is it heating us all up more? Is another ice age inevitable, or has something happened to this cycle, too? There are sound reasons for getting away from filthy, air-polluting fuels that are going to run out in any case, but basing it all on global warming may not be one of them. The scientists are likely to have a lot of revising of data to do in the next 50 years.

The biggest problem this earth is faced with is over population of humans. Look at it in this context, if a bush or tree or any type of plant is infested with insect's or infected with a disease. We all know what the outcome will be. There are many parts of the world affected by food shortages now and have been for many years. This problem will only get worse, with increased food shortages and increased food prices.

Great news. Of course, we will have been gone for 1300 years when the next ice age starts.

YEP WHAT A LOAD OF MADE UP RUBBISH!