Then there is man made climate change also called global warming, supposedly CO2 emitted by man is acting as a greenhouse gas and warming our climate, however because our world has not warmed in the last 18yrs, and CO2 levels have escalated, this cannot be a very strong phenomenon.
http://www.rkm.com.au/ANIMATIONS/carbon-... <== here's the physics.
For both water and CO2. You really want to understand what it's saying.
The more water and CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the more heat the earth retains.
This is the basic science behind global warming.
Without the relatively small amount of water and CO2 in our atmosphere, the earth would be 60 degrees colder than it is.
Far below freezing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
Wikipedia probably has the most complete description in one place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
"The finding that the climate has warmed in recent decades and that human activities are already contributing adversely to global climate change has been endorsed by every national science academy that has issued a statement on climate change, including the science academies of ALL OF THE MAJOR INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...
"With the release of the revised statement by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2007, no remaining scientific body of national or international standing is known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate change."
IE, NO REPUTABLE SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION NOW CLAIMS THAT AGW IS NOT REAL.
SO, virtually all of the scientists, from countries around the entire world, think that global warming is a problem. Why do so many relatively uneducated people, who honestly don't understand the physics involved, think that they are smarter than the scientists, who, in many cases, have Master's, and PhD, degrees? That is the problem that we're having -- the number of people who don't understand, or don't care, that the earth really is warming.
Really, no one has bothered to define it yet. The UN-IPCC has basically defined it thus, "Climate Change is a change in climate." And to think that over a $ trillion has exchanged hands over over that weak at best definition. If you went into court with that definition and tried to prove or disprove Climate Change, you would certainly fail. If you did a study to scientifically prove or disprove Climate Change with only that definition, you absolutely couldn't. But we are expected to give up our liberties and wealth for such a lame definition.
I lived in a small town and there were some kids who believed in the 'Boogy Man' who lived under the bridge. I lived not too far from that bridge and being the naive little kid that I was went down there many times to see what this Boogy Man looked like. Never did see that man but I did see young lovers down there. Do you think someone started that rumor to chase us pests off? However, I had several friends who say they saw that Boogy Man even into their teens.
You see it boils down to this. If you make up a lie, like Anthropogenic Climate Change, a certain percent of the people will believe it. Now if an official of the government helps that lie along even more people will believe it. If unscrupulous but seemingly authentic experts support it then even more people will people will believe it. Hitler and Stalin brought this lying to a fine art or an exact science, if you will. Hitler laughed about it and stated in his book Mien Kampf "if you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough the masses of the people will believe it." This science of lying is used by propagandists and admen alike to this day and the same percentage of people fall for it. People on Madison Avenue make a living making you feel better about using a certain product even if it isn't any better than another.
People still belonged to the Flat Earth Society even after a picture of Earth taken from a spaceship was shown to them. And that was how many years after Galileo?
Even Abraham Lincoln knew about this exact formula when he said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." But these Hucksters like Al Gore keep trying because they unquestionably get rich by lying to us.
So in direct answer to your question, they mean for you to believe any bit of garbage they put out and to give them money and let them dominate you all over a scam!
Climate change means any significant change in climate, like temperature or rainfall, over a 30 year period or more. If the climate is changing, then the 30 year average temperature, or rainfall, or number of sunny days, is changing.
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions.
The changes in the duration of Weather due to Global Warming
A consistent change in the temperature of the earth. By temperature of the earth, I mean the average temperature of all places on earth land and sea. A consistent change is a change that happens repeatably every year.
The changes in the duration of Weather due to Global Warming.
Change in the statistics of weather over time.
The earth is getting hotter and Antarctica is melting everyday.
