(V): I don't like Zoos.. they smell too much.. how about an interactive web site?

Tuesday:   Good post from Mclatchy.  It basically states that global warming has been continuous due to depleted oxygen in the ocean related to global warming.  The article cites Oceanographers & studiers of marine biology.  I would trust them more to indicate that global warming has taken place since 1998 than the absolute claims by weathermen who appear on the O'Really Factor to do the bidding of big oil companies.  Just my humble opinion.

GTCharlie: Zoo's will be more popular, they can hang a sign "extinct. biodiversity levels to small in the wild to continue". People can pay to have their photo taken!!

ahhhh you're too quick!!!

sorry...just kidding,, don't get mad, i love animals also

well ..looking on the bright side of things, less polar bears should mean more seals for the Canadians to hunt and club..right???

Artful Dodger: And isn't it true that the number of scientists in the USA exceeds the 2 million mark so 31K is not a big proportion. about 1-2%.

Isn't it true that with regards to data on polar bear population that in most cases they cannot be sure, with many population figures coming back as "unknown".

... one as I said

Artful Dodger: Why? You know I'm right.

Artful Dodger: The arguments? Is this some strange reference to a Monty Python sketch??

Artful Dodger: No Art, I do not make things up. Go look, prove I am wrong or accept your sources are a bit biased.

Artful Dodger: Bill Nye knows the science, I see no mention of having the qualifications to do so..... mechanical engineering, he's qualified in that field. Nothing I can see about matters to do with climate.

Artful Dodger: Yes I found sources on the web. You can too very easily. And I guess you already know this, or suspect such information.

Hey it's today go have a cuppa and relax and let the web inform you.

Ferris Bueller: Since a big wrong prediction in the 80's here no weather man is stupid enough to say "my prediction on weather is 100%".

Did you guys in the USA get any acid rain by chance in the last 20 years or so? The type caused by pollution that killed forests??

Vikings: I'm still waiting for you to tell me what you consider efficient, I'm still waiting for you to report on your bank's and their bonuses.

But hey... Republicans here seem to be above such honesty and perspective. Hence my comparison of private business and government, both run by humans. as I don't know your personal view on what is considered well run!

btw.. those prisoners in the USA jails who make for the USA military such things as body armour and battle helmets.... how is the equipment holding up?

From a British point of view I can see how you guys from the USA might have problems with perspectivity and relativity, after all... during the Northern ireland war (involving terrorists) many private people in the USA gave money which ended up paying for weapons that killed civilians over here as well as soldiers and police.

After 9/11, right wingers moaned about the French, who supplied info on another terrorist attack attempt which with the help of the Canadians stopped said attempt. Just because they did not agree with Bush.

(V): Uhm, I.m still waiting for that well run government system, instead of you changing the point

Artful Dodger: There are those on the right that say we do not have any impact for from man on the world, there are those on the left who say we are all going to die!!

.. Actually, we have many on the right saying we are all going to die but that is a loose interpretation of a certain chapter in a book.

Meanwhile cheap palm oil that food manufacturers are using so happily is fast helping a certain close cousin of our genetically become extinct or a zoo only feature.

Vikings: Why did the Bin Laden family leave the USA? How many cases of corporate manslaughter have been filed against USA companies.

Nasa didn't scrap the moon flights, Obama did to save money. The current planned system was a joke and pre dates the current admin, they stopped a farce. Certain drug companies have issued false claims and made billions from drugs that don't work or unsafe.. how, by bombarding the government depts with two much information or supressing facts.

.. That's a world wide issue and has in the USA alone led to a case of over 10,000 people suing the company over diabetes caused by a prescribed drug.

The tobacco companies knew pre 70's of the cancer risk due to tobacco smoking, etc. .. I've seen the files personally due to a job I did relating to a UK class action.

Taxes, everyone tries to evade that. How many billions in off shore accounts.

1000's of UK building companies got caught fixing prices for projects all around the UK. The ripped off clients, were public, private and charities.

I hear Medicare and aid in the USA are bankrupt due to charges made by private hospitals and doc's that are way over the top. Is there any truth in this?

As for social networks.. Don't really use facebook and the likes!!

And how much (you did not answer) are your bank bonuses this year. I hear all the banks are crying "if we don't pay out billions in bonuses the eggheads will leave and join other companies."

... Madoff.

Artful Dodger: Art.... are you trying to tell me you like government health after all? Have you been in denial????

As for you lies, etc about various parties and their members. No side is clean and due to that. No side can try and claim the moral high ground.

Artful Dodger:  I will admit that Joe Bastardi puts on a compelling show for your friends Bill O'Reilly & Glenn Beck.  But, he is a weatherman, not a scientist.  He is also on the dole of big oil which could be suspicious. In addition, he predicts the weather with an air of complete certainty.  Nobody can be that certain about the weather.  I agree that no science can be absolute, & no one can say explicitely when the world will end by global warming.  But, the vast majority of scientist agree that there is a man made component to global warming.  Based upon this evidence, I side on the need for gov't regulation to stem this trend.  It may happen anyway, but I think we can do things to delay it.

Research shows that polar bear figures made in the 70's were an estimate and still are as counting them is hard. There are 19 sub species listed over various areas of the Artic circle of which only 1 seems to be on the increase. Much of any inrease will be due to the fact we've stopped hunting them to extinction.

No-one can give an accurate figure on actual numbers.

Tuesday: Today, there are aprox 25,000 Poler bears where as in the 1970's there were only about 5,000. and they can swim for miles, so these images are just another part of the global warming hoax

I can feel love in the air

(V): I also noticed how you steered away from social network systems

Pedro Martínez: agreed, especially when it comes to federal judges

Vikings: Let me add that the justice system is at the very bottom of the list of the ineffective U.S. “government-run” systems.

(V): well, lets answer these, shall we
The FBI, do you remember a thing called 9-11, the FBI and other law agencies refused to share information and I don't think I have to remind you what happened, real efficient
NASA, just this week they have scrapped the moon missions, but they are not scrapping the money that has been appropriated for it, now the head of NASA is in bed with the global warming bunkist.
police, well that is a local issue not a federal issue
taxes, funny how you seem to forget that many of the administration have evaded paying their taxes including the secretary of the Treasury, oh yea , have you ever tried reading a tax code

I am still waiting for a legitimate answer

Vikings: The FBI have pretty good record, NASA went to the moon. Your police works, taxes seem to be collected.

.. depends on what you classify as efficient. With respect in employment about 95% is efficient.

How are your bank's bonuses this year?

Artful Dodger:   You state unequivically that "One fact is that there has not been any warming since 1998."  Your so big on everyone who disagrees with you backing up their assertions.  Where did you get that one from?

(V): Name one American government system other than the military that is run efficiently

Artful Dodger: I can back up from your posts that you hark on about government fraud than any other type, anyone can see that!! ;)

I can back up from your posts that you think a government based health system is akin to having your feet licked by sheep (an old toture system) .. yet I can also say that a government based system is more accountable to joe public than your current health companies are. Which is something you need in the USA.

I can also say that a recent case of a paramedic denying to resusitate (sp) a man in the UK because he was by opinion... thought to be too fat is a crime. In the USA I've heard people denied treatment over stupid reasons such as "you didn't tick a box".

I know our NHS is not perfect, but as always the option to have private healthcare from national companies is available to those who wish to pay for it. As I said national.. no county to county rubbish... state to state to those in the USA.

Greed is a human thing, one of the seven deadly sins ain't it ;)

to be balanced....

Artful Dodger: I'm sorry Art, but I like to balanced. The attitude you give off when sniping at Obama and anything not Republican or American Conservative is that everyone else has horns and your 'guys' have halo's and are at the right hand of the I AM.

That Obama and liberal minded people invented fraud....

.... Very old British records of army spending show kings in the past concerned over how each penny is spent, long before socialism (apart from some talk by some guy called Jesus and others of his ilk) was ever invented as an economic concept.

I guess the merchants back then liked profit!!

Artful Dodger: Sorry to inform you, but teleprompters have been around for some time... they are not new news. I would have thought you'd heard of them, but I guess sometimes we can miss the introduction of new tech.. and the after effects in oops tv clips!! ;)