<revolutionarysocialistst...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been involved in a long debate about solar power (particularly
> concentrating solar power/solar thermal energy) versus nuclear power,
> mainly with the pro-nuclear socialist David Walters, but another pro-
> nuclear socialist called Fran has recently joined in, on
> alt.politics.socialism.trotsky in the thread "Guardian: Solar power
> from Sahara could provide Europe's electricity, says EU".

> Others, including David, thought that crossposting on these issues
> may
> be OK, so I'm also sending this to a few other newsgroups. I'm also
> posting my messages on this subject to my Revolutionary Platform
> Network Forum (including to the Global Warming board there athttp://www.revolutionaryplatform.net/forum/index.php?board=107);
> please state if you object to me posting replies to your comments
> there.

> On 10 Aug, 13:19, Fran <Fran.B...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Aug 10, 4:11 am, Steve Wallis <revolutionarysocialistst...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I've had some doubts about my position on global warming, but finding
> > > out that the weather got colder during the post-war boom (despite the
> > > increasing levels of carbon dioxide due to industrialisation)

> > Google "global dimming" for the effect of SO2 on global temperatures
> > from 1943-74 ...

> I did find out about the sulphur claim (I wasn't sure it was SO2 and
> thought I'd wait for somebody else to mention it), when doing earlier
> browsing. I was sceptical then and still am now of this explanation.
> Isn't it amazing that you get all this talk of global warming and yet
> very little mention of the fact that temperatures did increase after
> the second world war. Obviously, those who agree with global warming
> need some sort of explanation when pushed to justify their theory, but
> they generally don't want to mention global dimming and SO2 (and I
> didn't find out about the SO2 explanation until I read a critique of
> "The Great Global Warming Swindle").

> > > and
> > > another ice age was predicted by scientists reinforced my view.

> > Another meme put about by deniers. Even at the "height" (if that is
> > the right word)  of the speculation in the early 1970s, more
> > scientists hypothesised about global warming than a new ice age. Even
> > the article generally credited with circualting this idea foreshadowed
> > the opposite as a distinct possibility. There was never peer-reviewed
> > science behind the claim, and certainly nothing like the process that
> > has informed the IPCC assessment reports.

> I did Google "global dimming" as you suggested and came across the
> Wikipedia pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming. The graph
> on that page, which takes data fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_temperature_record,
> does not show dimming for anything like the period 1943-74 - in fact
> it's only in the 1940s according to those graphs.

> Critics of "The Great Global Warming Swindle" such as George Monbiot
> didn't claim that the post-war dimming was incorrect, and it must have
> been in the late 70s or early 80s when I heard of the ice age
> prediction, which certainly doesn't tally with dimming just in the
> 1940s.

> > > [I
> > > remember this at the time but I'd forgotten about it until reminded by
> > > the Channel 4 TV programme "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

> > This was put about by a self-styled swindler of the Thatcher and Hayek-
> > loving "Living Marxism" crowd.

> I did discover that the person responsible for that programme is
> linked to LM, and found a page with an interview the day after the
> programme went out on their current Spiked project website, but he and
> they claim that he is not a member of the ex-RCP.

> I disagree with a lot of the ideas that that organisation/ex-
> organisation puts out, but that doesn't mean that valid points they
> make about global warming can be discounted.

> > You need to stop believing the first thing you read on the internet.

> > Fran

> I don't. I've researched global warming theory quite a lot and found
> arguments against global warming more convincing than those in support

> of it. When you tell people that China had the coldest winter for 50
> years (according to TV news in the UK) or that Scotland had the
> coldest Easter for 46 years, or that the UK sea level is only rising
> 3.1mm a year, then people do tend to get very sceptical about the cosy
> consensus of envrionmentalists,

>most of the media and virtually all
> politicians that global warming is caused by mankind and heading for a
> catastrophe.

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