Senator Steve Fielding - Leader of Family First

In the response to Penny Wong’s written submission the Quadrant group persists in doing exactly what they accuse the pro groups of.
Idso & Singer are just as selective as others. Show me the data on glaciers above 1500 m and the evidence is overwelming

4.2. So far as we are aware, no accurate inventory exists of the worldwide volume of modern ice and snow, let alone over the millennial history that is required in order to judge whether observed modern changes are unusual. As Idso & Singer (2009, p. 136) note, “global data on glaciers do not support claims made by the IPCC that most glaciers are retreating or melting”.

“Show me the data on glaciers above 1500 m and the evidence is overwelming”

Er, why don’t *you* show us the data since you are making the caim. Until then it is just hot air.

ahh Sam.. the global warming is your hot air.. give up, or at least attempt to put forward some thing with some merit. I enjoy a challenge sorely lacking from anything I have seen from you so, far. If you make a claim, eg AGW it is your task to substantiate it with something more than appeal to authority… THAT BASIC STUFF…

it is suppose to goes this way.

ICPP claim AWG exists, they are supposed to argue the case, it is not the other way around.
eg make a ridiculous statement and then expect everyone to accept it, that’s OK for the average Joe, but on the forum you are mainly dealing with people who think, life your game, make an intelligent contribution.

Colin Dixon - 06 July 2009 06:37 PM

If you make a claim, eg AGW it is your task to substantiate i.

As I indicated, the opener of this thread made a claim without anything to back it up. I haven’t made any claim here. Your argument has all the finesse of a schoolyard “he started it”/“no, he started” diatribe.