An Airline Owner's take on Weather Predictions.

why is an airline owner qualified to voice an opinion on this? why is this news?

you don't need to be a climatologist to realise there is a difference between a spike and a trend.. ffs

Shame on the paper for printing such drivel!

I'd expect that sort of spelling from a six year old.

"weights" indeed. Pff!

It was the journo that used the word, not the airline owner, so I assume it is the journo at whom your criticism is directed.

A sad state of affairs when journalists do not have a command of primary school standard English expression when writing articles in an English language news paper.

I think global warming is a baseless opinon promulgated by those who have the money and resources to simply have the loudest voice on the matter....

ohh, but thats right, speaking against, or to take a view which differs to the loudest voice is viewed as conspiracy

you people are so smart

Its called Climate Change now, so they can have an each-way bet on it warming or cooling

But I am not sure climate change in iteself is baseless opinion though.

The earth's cliamte has been changing for the last 5 billion years (since the earth was formed) and it has not been a steady one way trend, it has been variable up, down and ever changing.

If you look at the last 5 million years (human evolution period) we are actually in quite a cool period at the moment. The fact there are polar ice caps actually puts us in an ice-age by geological definitions.

What I can't see is how a climate that is hotter than now will cause mass extintions. For the last 5 billion years the periods when the earth was relatively warmer than it is now were periods of greater rainfall and more biodiversity, why would that change tomorrow ? There is more biodiversity in a rainforest than on the polar ice cap.

To me the only question is the rate of change, is human activity changing the climate at a rate greater than that at which organisms can move or adapt ?

Now, I don't think anything gives us good evidence of the speed of change in the past 5 million years, nothing (ice cores, tree rings, geological deposits) give an acurate snap shot of spikes and blips over say a 30 years period, the same period we now see a spike in global temperatures that causes the debate. They may well give good shows over a long time and individual evidence might show a certain area became flooded over night or something, but nothing shows global change on a year by year basis.

Personnally I suspect that greater changes have occured in the past and life on earth has survived. Remembering all the time extinction is the norm and survival of a species is extremely rare (around 99% of all species ever evolved are extinct).


However, having said all that if the fear of climate change makes us stop pumping concentrated crap into the atmosphere, pumping untreated and concentrated crap into the ocean, producing non renewable consumer products and burying non-biodegraable crap in the ground, then lets promote the concept of climate change as it will do more good than harm.

And why wouldn't the boss of an airline company speak out against those who say the nature of his business is damaging to society ?

after September 11 when all the planes were banned from flying over America, the temp went up.. Planes have a "dimming" effect.. planes are a mixed blessing, and they need to stay up there for now..which means were not going to pull all the planes down and shut Ryanair..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming


newspapers should have more of this.

Well put frant.

Also "weights" .. they included an extra "t'. Which is something you wouldn't get on Ryanair.

Nope - they are not taking the piss out of Michael O'Leary. In fact what you see is careful media manipulation on his behalf.

Recently he has been in the media for:
Hostess Calendar Girls www.ryanaircalendar.com/
he described a potential new transat airline venture as offering "free beds and blowjobs"
charging passengers ?1 to use the toilet on their flights
getting rid of the co-pilot and just having the pilot
removing seats and having people stand on short haul flights
vertical seating (www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/cheaper-airfares-to-stand-on-planes/news-story/db404816757385572a3bf3a9b5cf3df6)
removing check-in desks from airports and replacing them with online check-in
he bought a taxi plate for his personal merc so he could use the bus lanes
removing toilets to fit in more seats

Just try googling "Ryanair publicity stunt". He is smarter then he appears and he and his company live by the motto "all publicity is good publicity". Ryanair remains one of the most profitable airlines in the world despite being a no frills operation.

I bet he is sitting on his rich arse in great delight that a watersports website in australia is talking about him and his company. Job Done.

JB

Once again you are probably right. The money makers will be the only winners either way.

And it is a pretty poor and convoluted way to stop pollution, it would be easier just to say 'pollution is bad, lest stop doing it' than 'man made climate change will destroy all life on earth unless you pay more tax immediately and thank us for the priviledge, and then everything will be dandy'

Doc is just bitter cos he can't post his usual sh1t on seabreeze anymore. So he has a dig on just about every thread.

He should just take teddy out of the sandpit and go home