<story><title>New ice age? Don&apos;t count on it</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/06/new-ice-age-dont-count-on-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>With these sorts of articles now I&apos;m never quite sure what to believe.&lt;p&gt;Now before you jump in to mock me, it&apos;s just that I don&apos;t have time to keep really up-to-date with climate change anymore.  Are we really getting warmer?  Are we cooling?  What&apos;s causing it?&lt;p&gt;For each article I read that tells me one thing, a few days later another comes out and tells me the previous one was wrong and here&apos;s why.&lt;p&gt;I hope that this article&apos;s right and being New Scientist I have a lot more faith in it.  I just wish I had more time to understand all the factors of climate change for myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>FUD.  That&apos;s the point of the decades long propaganda campaign by the energy companies.  If they can&apos;t convince you outright they at least want to create the confusion and doubt.</text></comment>
<story><title>New ice age? Don&apos;t count on it</title><url>http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/06/new-ice-age-dont-count-on-it.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>muppetman</author><text>With these sorts of articles now I&apos;m never quite sure what to believe.&lt;p&gt;Now before you jump in to mock me, it&apos;s just that I don&apos;t have time to keep really up-to-date with climate change anymore.  Are we really getting warmer?  Are we cooling?  What&apos;s causing it?&lt;p&gt;For each article I read that tells me one thing, a few days later another comes out and tells me the previous one was wrong and here&apos;s why.&lt;p&gt;I hope that this article&apos;s right and being New Scientist I have a lot more faith in it.  I just wish I had more time to understand all the factors of climate change for myself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joakal</author><text>Well, other people think it&apos;s bullshit here so far without any sources. Here&apos;s some scientific stuff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scientific_op...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s unlikely you can understand all the factors of climate change since there&apos;s far more variables of Earth than most scientists can comprehend so they could only study and make scientific theory based understandings. I think it&apos;s best to leave it to the academics.</text></comment>