Global warming is far too big of a topic to be debunked easily even if it were a bunch of garbage which clearly a lot of it is. The earth has warmed in the last hundred years but it warmed about the same the previous hundred. A thousand and two thousand years ago it was as warm or nearly as warm as today. Humans have emitted a lot of CO2 but we don't even know the residence time it has in the atmosphere or how high the concentration would be without human emissions. I wouldn't say it was debunked. I would say they haven't proved their case.
Here is some interesting reading for you:
Article in The Economist, a media outlet that has been very supportive of man made warming: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracy...
Article about the recent global warming slowdown: http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...
Climate scientist Ed Hawkins comparing recent temperatures with climate model predictions: http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2013/c...
Climate scientist James Annan on the recent warming slowdown and what it may mean to previous climate sensitivity estimates: http://julesandjames.blogspot.ca/2013/02...
Climate scientist Cliff mass on the claim that recent extreme weather is the result of global warming: http://cliffmass.blogspot.ca/2012/08/cli...
(Note: The climate scientists I have quoted are not considered "skeptics". They believe AGW is harmful and needs to be addressed. They are not "crackpots and have been involved in the IPCC. However, their recent comments show that AGW is not as certain as is presented by the general media and that a "consensus of 97% of climate scientists" is a term that can be misused and misrepresented.)
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Edit: "So far, it looks to me like nothing has really changed recently"
You obviously didn't read my links which are all recent. And BTW, I'm not stating the AGW hypothesis is wrong, just that perhaps it has been overestimated.
"I don't mean to be such a lazy ***"
I'm not so sure.
Firstly it's not "global warming" that has been debunked, it's "man-made" Global Warming that has been debunked. It's very important to understand that distinction.
There has indeed been a little warming over the last several decades, but it was not caused by human activity. You should watch the videos below, or at least the first one. They will help you see the big picture.
Top climate scientists say there is no man-made Global Warming.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
yeah, it's been thoroughly debunked many times, although it wasn't difficult as global warming wasn't backed by any real evidence in the first place.
now that you're starting to see the light you should ask yourself how you were personally taken in by the hoax in the first place and apply the same logic to the many other government hoaxes and propaganda.
EDIT wow have you discovered real evidence then because there's a massive cash prize [truth] for any one with proof, or maybe the tv has had more effect on you than you realise.
here#s the link
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/...
have fun spendig the 125k
Global warming has absolutely not been debunked, unless you count denialist fantasies. People who reject it do not examine any of the bodies of evidence. Global warming is happening
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010...
And we are causing it
http://c1planetsavecom.wpengine.netdna-c...
The ten warmest years in the instrumental record are 2010, 2005, 2009, 2007, 2002, 1998, 2006, 2003, 2011 and 2012.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
Okay research "how the warming effect of CO2 logarithmically diminishes with concentration" and decide for yourself.
What that means is all the warming that CO2 can do is pretty much used up in the first 100ppm or so. and a lot more wont make a measurable difference.
Nobody who claims it is not real quotes a scientific source.
Every single scientific study you see now begins with the understanding that it is real. Every single science academy tells you it is beyond dispute.
The confusion comes from the oceans, which take 90% of the warming, having taken more in recent years. The troposphere does not show increased warming in x number of years. But sea level continues to rise. Arctic ice has severely reduced -- and that has changed the jet stream bringing erratic weather to the States and England.
You will not find a serious science source telling you anything other than that it is happening.
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yes
Scientists say it is real:
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2010:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record...
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpine...
“Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia…Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.”
“The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes. Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.”
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/...
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/timel...
Oil and coal company propagandists say it is not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_o...
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...
http://www.newsweek.com/2007/08/13/the-t...
http://video.pbs.org/video/2295533310/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckib...
http://jcmooreonline.com/2013/01/31/engi...
By "debunked," I mean just that, not "contested" as it has been for just about ever. I'm only asking because I recently got into it with someone, and the topic came up. The status quo supported my position (i.e. global warming is real), but if it has been debunked, my position is weaker (though not invalidated entirely).
I don't mean to be such a lazy ***, but he sent me a couple links that *SEEM* to back his claim. However, I can't base a thing on illegitimate articles, so I'll only read them and research further if the scientific community at large says I should.
Thanks folks!
There is currently no credible, unmanipulated scientific data that supports the notion of CAGW....None.
In my mind, I can't see how something that does not exist can (or even needs to) be 'de-bunked.
"sent me a couple links that *SEEM* to back his claim"
I don't think they could put it on the internet if it wasn't true.
It has never been debunked despite denialist claims to the contrary
