UK Lord looks to video games for climate awareness

Cue horde of people who don't believe in Global Warming and think it's a liberal scam or something, just because Al Gore was the figurehead for the US movement (see: Same idiots who don't believe in Evolution)

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He's forgetting "Captain Planet and The Planeteers" on the NES... from 19 years ago!

Global warming & evolution as an origin. If global warming is real, we'll all fry in 20 years even if we did curb emissions because of China and India... so who cares? And if evolution as an origin is real, then our great grandfather is the amoeba... so who cares?

Great... Politics in video games...

Next Up:
Fox News the game: A third person action game where you go around making things up.
Al Gore 3: A first person game where you go around making things up
Michael Moore Action whore: a 8th person action game where you wobble around while making things up.
O'Reilly: O'rlly? Isometric strategy game where you go around making stuff up. And interrupting people while they talk.

Sorry Nicholas, "Global Warming" is out. The new term is "Climate Change". It's pretty much future-proof as it can cover anything (even the cooling cycle that we are now 10 years into)

The whole "Climate Change" scam starts with reports from the IPCC which if you take the time to read them don't definitively state ANYTHING. (if you took a sip of 3/2 beer every time you saw the words "if", "might", "could", "probably", "perhaps", "expected", or "projected" in one of those reports you would be dead of alcohol poisoning by the time you were half through it). Its simply assumptions built upon one another until the final analysis is a veritable lottery win if you get them all correct.

After the reports come out, the activists in the media, education, and the political class take the worst case scenarios from the reports, inflate them further and pass them of as FACT to the uninformed public. After which they attack the credibility of anyone that isn't in lock-step with them. Even the least skeptical person among us should have doubts about their motives.

"Climate Change" is something that happens. It always has and always will. We don't have the power to change it either way. To say otherwise is to be a desperate cool-aid drinker or to have a vested interest in promoting it.

BTW, as the 1998 cooling trend continues, more and more scientists are publicly coming out against the popular notion of AGW (anthropological global warming). They (wisely) don't want their reputations to go down with the ship.

Can we just elect Will Wright our "Dr. Seuss"? Since he's not making good games anyway, he can just make kids games with a message.

Definitely Lost Planet.

The villians will be shooting CFC's as their WMD.

Except the problem with your argument, yiggitron, is that the "climate change" you speak of as happening throughout history was insubstantial compared to the current changes taking place in the Earth's climate as of now. The earth's temperature in the past 60 years has risen dramatically and as a result we're seeing weather phenomonea the likes of which haven't been seen in millions of years. The "warming periods" in history argument that is often used against this doesn't really work because the incline and temperature isn't even a quarter of the difference seen in recent years. This is basic elementary school science, we know that pollution damages the environment, when the environment is damaged =O the ozone layer weakens, as a result warmer weather, simple enough for you to understand? The only reason the republicans and conservative critics are fighting this is because it means they'd have to stab in the back one of their key interest groups, the oil lobbyists who help pay for their re-election campaigns. Now we can play cute and coy and act like this is something just invented by house and Senate democrats to push through enviromentally friendly legislation and give the free market the finger but it seems to me that when scientists of over 180 nations have been researching this and as a result have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the US is the only modern industrial nation that hasn't, that there's a little bit of a problem here with us being slow on the uptake.

as for the evolution debate, I'm not even going to really get into this. The scientific community holds a 99.7% consensus of support on evolution. That means .3 or less of the entire scientific community either disagrees or is unsure of evolution. If it's not obvious by now that evolution is scientific fact, than that's your problem and personal hangups not mine. Oh and before I have to listen to this argument again, let me nip it in the bud. A scientific theory doesn't not indicate it is a theory with which there is currently no resolution, it simply is the title given to any resolution and thesis of a scientific experiment. You know...such as the Theory of Relativity, but then again, maybe it is just an idea, maybe Einstein was wrong and gravity does not exist and we're all just floating in space, we just don't know yet, the science isn't all in! :-P

Yiggitron:
- There were several major temperature increases in the last century, neither which coincide directly with growth in industrialization. Temperatures plateaued in 1998 and have now taken a sharp downturn. The level of CO2 has not increased during this time.

Is this a joke? the average temperature globally shot dramatically up after only 20 years of the Industrial revolution and have continued to rise dramatically in the past 40 years. If you wanna compare year by year, go ahead, but the fact is there is a rising trend in the global temperature in comparison to the expected average over the course of the past century, even comparing 2000 to 1850 you'll see a massive change in weather patterns and average temperatures.

- Again, your elementary school level of science on display, an over-simplistic and completely naive understanding about a system as radically complex as the earth's atmosphere.

Well that's cute, but apparently my naive understanding of the earth's atmosphere was good enough that when the IPCC's findings came out the national science academies of every modern industrialized nation approved and endorsed them.

- Can you if those nations have actually met the Kyoto's CO2 targets? (The answer is no. instead of a 5% decrease in CO2 over 1990 levels they have been responsible for a 27% increase! Considering that fact, the only net result of Kyoto is certain brokers of eco-credits, select corporations, and government bureaucrats were able to get rich off of taxes and regulations imposed by it.)

Which is especially no surprise seeing as the US is still responsible for 22% of global CO2 emissions, more so than any other nation. I'm sure though that the rise globally was a direct response to the Kyoto Protocol though, right? It wasn't just a continuation of the effects of industrial growth. Naturally by signing and ratifying the Kyoto Protocol all CO2 emissions from other nations would dramatically decrease in just a year or two, it's not like Mitigation and Geoengineering take time and money.

- The Environmental Activists (neo-pantheists) need a devil for their religion, the misanthropes and luddites need a battlefront. the Government bureaucrats need a reason for expanding their regulatory power, the global socialists need a way to transfer money from one country to another, the corporations need to have an edge over their (non-green) competitors, and finally... the elementary school level "scientists" need something to feel smart about.

Right, just as there's people who NEED to convince themselves that global warming is a myth. The corporate giants need something to spare themselves of any blame or responsibility for environmental damage, government bureaucrats and global corporationists need to ensure that the free market stays unchecked so that they can keep themselves rich and their companies profitable with no regard for the effects it has on others and finally.. so that the truly delusional can convince themselves that global warming is a myth and a conspiracy so that they can live with no burden and not have to fear that their inaction and sense of false security won't put the real burden on the next generation. Truly admirable

Nanny-state buffoonery. Is it any wonder nobody respects the English anymore? Somebody tell Lord Buggernuts to stick his tea and crumpets up his arse.

Coldest winter here in Minnesota in decades. Ill take global warming over cooling any day. ppl in teh UK are idiots