Aren't you trying to have it both ways here ? On the one hand you say the temperature is rising, but it doesn't matter because we will supposedly all meet our Kyoto targets anyway. Then you deny global warming is happening at all. Which is it ?

With regards to the first claim, don't you think declining crude oil supplies could meet a hell-for-leather coal to liquids, tar sands, heavy oil and shale oil development boom ? And with the low EROEI of some of these, we end up with far higher carbon emissions for the same, or even less, net output than we have today.

Some fact based debunking of global warming rather than just random assertions would be nice too (care to give us some links to your "highly reliable" climate change models)...

Gav,
as chance would have it there is a nice article in The Oz today about the Goyder Line.

Apparently the "beneficial warming" may have moved Goyders Line south, with the result that hundreds of more wheat farms are potentially unviable.

Goyders Line in South Australia marks the limit of "reliable rains" for wheat production. Goyder determed this ~150 years ago. Also some interesting history about opportunistic land grabs and pooh poohing of Goyders 'scientific' advice... needles to say, it ended in tears.

Maybe of interest for PeakEnergy.

Thanks SP - I hadn't noticed that one - very interesting (especially for those still pushing the grain ethanol wagon)...