TwiceBarrel - yep a few human beings seems insignificant. But a tiny handful of people in a few thousand years reduced North and South America's large mammal fauna from diversity resembling modern Africa to the vestige we have left today. And that with just spears, bows and fire. Now we are up to seven billion, heading toward ten, and most of the earth and the oceans have been been massively degraded.

Raimey - not sure what you mean by three years of data. All datasets going back hundreds of thousand of years consistently show the same patterns - there is more CO2 than ever, and it is hotter than it has been as far back as the data go.

But what do all those pointy-headed scientists know compared to Rush and the oil companies?