This is one of the media’s favorite logical fallicies. Based on Malthusian principles prices of commodities must rise over time. Commodity prices are rising. Therefore Malthusian principles are the cause of the rising prices.This could be nothing more than another example of what happens when government regulates how, when, and where commodities can be accessed. The jump in prices coinsides exactly with the market crash and housing debacle, both courtsey of our all knowing elected officials.

SAY IT ISN’T SO SARAH !!

Because of its dense cloud cover, Venus has extraordinary “albedo”, reflecting much or most of the solar radiation that reaches it. Daytime on Venus is like dusk on the Earth, Even so, the average surface temperature of the planet is furnace-like.

The discrepancy between the small amount of solar radiation reaching the surface and the extreme high temperatures at the surface can be accounted for by the greenhouse effect. The atmosphere of Venus is over 90% carbon dioxide.

No scientist that I have read suggests that we are in danger of seeing Venus-like conditions on Earth — we aren’t going to see lead melt on our sidewalks.

But we are likely to see — and already are seeing — increased drought, flooding, heat waves, tropical storms of the highest intensity, and rising sea levels. All that is far from Venusian, but it’s too close for my taste.

“Quite amusing that Myles Allen is trying to row back on this. He has been very prominent in pushing the idea that human impact is causing extreme weather:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7017/full/nature03089.html

“Using a threshold for mean summer temperature that was exceeded in 2003, but in no other year since the start of the instrumental record in 1851, we estimate it is very likely (confidence level >90%)9 that human influence has at least doubled the risk of a heatwave exceeding this threshold magnitude.”

He has a lot of history, but as Gore starts to be ridiculed, it seems he wants out. However, these papers are from a selection referenced on his own web page:
http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/allenmyles.php

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v421/n6926/full/421891a.html
“Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?”
“As I write this article in January 2003, the flood waters of the River Thames are about 30 centimetres from my kitchen door and slowly rising. On the radio, a representative of the UK Met Office has just explained that although this is the kind of phenomenon that global warming might make more frequent, it is impossible to attribute this particular event (floods in southern England) to past emissions of greenhouse gases.”

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09762.html
“Here we present a multi-step, physically based ‘probabilistic event attribution’ framework showing that it is very likely that global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions substantially increased the risk of flood occurrence in England and Wales in autumn 2000. Using publicly volunteered distributed computing11, 12, we generate several thousand seasonal-forecast-resolution climate model simulations of autumn 2000 weather, both under realistic conditions, and under conditions as they might have been had these greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting large-scale warming never occurred.

The precise magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution remains uncertain, but in nine out of ten cases our model results indicate that twentieth-century anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of floods occurring in England and Wales in autumn 2000 by more than 20%, and in two out of three cases by more than 90%.”

And of course we have his pronouncements on a Carbon Budget:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/nature08019.html
“Total anthropogenic emissions of one trillion tonnes of carbon (3.67 trillion tonnes of CO2), about half of which has already been emitted since industrialization began, results in a most likely peak carbon-dioxide-induced warming of 2 deg C above pre-industrial temperatures, with a 5–95% confidence interval of 1.3–3.9 deg C”