Fascinating Site..................

[Malcolm Robinson]

Take a look..........

http://www.worldometers.info/

[threegee]

Skipping over issues like car production being surprisingly small given the population (and that illegal drugs are an even better business to be in than computers), there's one stand-out thing in the environment section:

This is that carbon dioxide output (show to ten digits) is racing upward, yet temperature increase has to be extended to eleven digits just to produce an obvious upward movement. That increase is so small that it is a wonder it can be measured at all. Could it now be static or even falling, and isn't this well within the range of normal solar output fluctuations? Are the ice caps of Mars still melting? I suspect maybe not, and if they are are how do those have anything to do with man-made CO2 emissions?

I don't think you are going to get cogent answers to any of those questions from our climate "scientists". But here's an even more interesting one they won't answer: Dumb kitchen table "experiments" aside - where is the scientific proof that there is any kind of correlation between atmospheric CO2 levels and mean temperature? Actually there is some correlation, but they wouldn't want you to look too closely at it because all studies show that it is delayed something between 200 and 1900 years! The mechanism is obviously a lot more complex than the simplistic explanations offered, and the timescale of same won't make for imminent doom and disaster scenarios, and so put money in their pockets!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Melting ice caps...........

http://www.worldometers.info/view/glaciers/

And one for GGG:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/21/antarctica-warming-an-evolution-of-viewpoint/

[Malcolm Robinson]

Or even this one..............

http://www.italiaora.org/

[Monsta®]

"Any reliance you place on the information is therefore strictly at your own risk." as its all made up!

[threegee]

Or even this one..............

http://www.italiaora.org/

Yup, it's only that 19,059 nuovi immigrati quest'anno (and their credit cards) that keeps the population from falling.

Lowest birth rate in the world probably not an entirely bad thing in a nation which still appears to believe that the solution to the waste disposal crisis is just to put it in a supermarket carrier bag, drive into the scenic countryside, and deposit as far as your arm will extend without actually getting out of the car. However most people do know that the civically responsible thing to do is - drop a match now and then!

[Malcolm Robinson]

It would seem the Italians are dying out faster than their birth rate, so much for that particular bit of national hype.

There's nowt gets past you monsta is there! Now if you applied the same strict formula to political philosophy............

[threegee]

I'm sure he'd put on a better act in the Commons than Dennis Skinner (and others of similar name).

No, wait! There's another interesting statistic to be got there:

30,163,317 HIV/AIDS infected people

105,667 Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS this year

So, get AIDS and live to be 300! How did Ricky Gervais miss that insensitive one at the Golden Globes?