http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-02-25-europe-truffles_N.htm

http://www.forecast-chart.com/historical-dow-industrial.html

I wish I could show the plot.

is highly correlated with the rise of temperature? Even the recent stasis is there.
:) :) ;)

Now we can discuss , is temperature driving the Dow or the Dow the temperature?

ThedAirs animation from 2003 to 2008 is lovely.

Maximum CO2 happens in spring. Maybe it is a positive feedback after all, the more CO2, the more plants thrive, the moreCO2 will come out. plants do breath out CO2 at night, No?

Otherwise it is strange. April is not a very hot month for getting extra CO2 from the oceans, and anyway the extra comes over the land masses.

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003562/

new links?

http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/story_archive/Measuring_CO2_from_Space/

“err….uh…..for those of you east of the rockies, rocky mountain oysters don’t have shells.”

In Greece there is a special dish one can sometmes order in taverns:

“ameletita”. It means “not to be thought about”

“Thus, I fail to see the problem with the story. I guess it feeds the need, a need so obvious here, to ridicule any and every story that dares, wrongly, on in this case rightly, to report a link between a problem and AGW.

This site can indeed be ridiculous at times.”

Evidently what you fail to see is that increases in the parasite populations could be due to a myriad of other factors, including how the treatment of the disease has changed (as the article mentions). Nevertheless, the story focuses on a single, popular, all encompassing cause celebre’– global warming.

Dr Sandy Clark states, “with the changing climate and availability of the parasite it is becoming a problem.” You and the general reader take this to mean that it is a problem. But that is the whole point.

You emphasize the statement, “Larvae are vulnerable to adverse weather conditions, but in warm, moist, shaded conditions may live for over a year.�

Read it closely. In warm, moist, shaded conditions (larvae) MAY live for over a year. This begs some questions. What, precisely. are the are warm and moist conditions, are such conditions actually present in Scotland and why use the word MAY except as cover in the event that actual rigorous field research shows that they may not?

Moreover, if global warming is the real culprit here (which the article intentionally leads you to believe) why is Ireland not having exactly the same problem?

So, as you may guess, some of us find such stories to be ridiculous. We also find it frustrating that they are so effective in convincing less critical and skeptical readers like yourself of suppositions (which are often disguised as fact) that could be misleading, inaccurate, or partially or entirely false

Discuss.