How do you explain the fact that CDIAC estimates of global annual CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture are more than two times what the atmospheric increase if we are not to blame for the increase in atmospheric CO2?
How do you explain the oceans decreasing in pH and becoming more acidic if CO2 emissions are from a natural source when the largest emitter of CO2 is the oceans and under a natural warming scenario the oceans would be becoming more alkaline as they exhale CO2 when the exact opposite is currently occurring as they inhale the excess human emissions as per Le Chatelier's Principle?
How do you explain the decrease in atmospheric oxygen at almost exactly twice the rate of the increase in carbon if those oxygen atoms aren't being taken up by the carbon emitted from the burning of fossil fuels? Something that would not occur under natural CO2 emissions scenarios.
If the world is currently cooling why is there still an increase in energy as measured via satellites in the lower atmosphere and biosphere? Are you aware that global temperatures do not only consist of surface temperatures, which some claim to have stalled for the last 15 - 18 years? If it is currently cooling why does almost every observation show that the planet continues to warm including global glacier recession, phenological and seasonal changes in things such as migratory habits and growing times, and so on?
The earth's climate has varied a lot over the past 500,000 years. The attached graph is temperatures deduced from ice cores. The low parts are glacial periods when the sea levels are much lower because the water is frozen and covering the land. The high spots are times like now - except it seems to have been even warmer in the past.
What caused the ripples in the previous warm periods? How could they be warmer than now?
Have CO2 levels ever been higher in the past. The answer is yes. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/PageMi...
Has bad weather ever happened before? Watch this and note the dates mentioned. Also note that the "important" people of the day blamed something they did not like: witches. The fact that witches did not exist was not a problem to them they "just knew".
A favorite claim by people who "question" global warming is that the hacked East-Anglia emails supposedly disprove global warming. Ask a few scientific questions about the emails;
What do the emails say about
1. CO2 is a greenhouse gas? http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissio...
2. The laws of thermodynamics? http://physics.about.com/od/thermodynami...
3. Atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing? http://co2now.org/
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontr...
4. This CO2 is due to the combustion of fossil fuels? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...
5. The Earth's temperature is increasing? http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...
6. Natural factors which influence climate would be cooling the Earth if not for anthropogenic CO2? http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp...
Take a look at temperatures going back centuries, and you see the planet warming steadily for centuries. How do you know that the current warming is from CO2 and not this natural warming?
Basic physics says warming from a doubling of CO2 would be 1.2C. Nature would then moderate this warming with negative feedbacks, producing a much smaller number(plus we have only had half a doubling of CO2). What evidence do you have for positive feedbacks that are built into models to create a higher number for CO2 warming?
If you believe that humans are not part of nature, then we as aliens are causing irreparable harm to the planet by just being here. Unfortunately, for those who believe that, there is a "theory of evolution" where as we evolved on this planet over the past 100,000 (or 1,000,000) years or so. The theory specifically states that humans are a natural bi-product of life through what is known as a "BIG BANG".
The "Creationist Theory" says that humans are as natural as any other living thing on Earth also, and that humans have "dominion" over the planet (which simply means we should help maintain it).
I wish you the best in trying to convince anyone that humans are natural, because extreme environmentalists will definitely scoff at your simple tone, if you try and convince them that we are not. They are very 2-faced and one-dimensional when it comes to their environmentalism.
In short: We are just like all of nature. We can kill, be killed, or die of "natural causes" just like the rest of all living things, but our remnants remain to help what is still living on Earth, "live on". It's an endless cycle as far as we know. Global Warming/Climate Change is only an effort by some to have dominion over others through a governing process IMHO (in my humble opinion).
Q: What is the most recent and largest "natural disaster" as far as the amount of dead humans is concerned and caused by the climate?
A: China - 1876 to 1879 - a drought that killed an estimated 13 million people. A drought that was purely natural and without a human environmental influence to the atmosphere.
Global Warming over the past 35 years = 0.36C according to the science (Most of that warming occurred before 1998)
Global Warming over the past 350 years = 0.87C according to the science (This warming has happened "after" the "Little Ice Age" where it seems to have been inevitable that the Planet would warm).
Be a "Climate Clown" if you want, but people like Jeff M still have to explain "why" they aren't "NATURAL".
First, please understand that the REAL debate is about "man-made" Global Warming --- not global warming. It's true there has been a little natural warming over the last several decades but it was NOT caused by human activity.
Man-made Global Warming advocates have no empirical science to back their claim. And their advocacy movement has been mired in scandal since its beginning. Here are some things you should know:
1) The Earth has been both much warmer and much colder in the distant past, long before the industrial age. Climate is indeed changing, but it has always changed and probably always will. These are obviously natural cycles that man does not and cannot control.
2) Global Warming alarmists have been caught in one lie after another. Huge scandals have been continuously revealed since the early 1980’s when the campaign began. Some of these are listed below:
3) Al Gore’s movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was full of bald faced lies. Like the Polar Bears were drowning, or the Ice Caps were melting, or the oceans were rising --- all lies. In fact a court of England ruled the movie was so flawed that it could not be shown to school children without a disclaimer.
4) The ClimateGate affair exposed the utter corruption of the Warmist community with their exposed emails speaking of how they intended to “hide the decline” and how to manipulate data and the peer-review process in their favor.
5) Then there is the fact that the globe isn’t even warming anymore and the small amount of warming experienced from the 1900’s to 2013 timeframe was negligible and well within the envelope of normal.
6) During this same period of marginal warming, scientists also noticed that other planets in our solar system were warming. What do these planets have in common ? --- the Sun.
7) Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, the Guru and High Priest of Global Warming himself admitted there has been no statistically significant warming. If anyone on the planet would have been aware of statistically significant warming it would have been Phil Jones and he admitted there has been none. (Game Over)
8) Warmists like Al Gore refuse to engage in any formal debate on the issue. That’s because on the few occasions Warmists have debated openly, they lose, and they lose big. Lord Monckton utterly destroys them time and time again.
9) Al Gore and other Warmists have stated clearly that they want to make CO2 the object of a global tax. CO2 is the perfect object for their revenue purposes because you literally cannot live without making CO2, after all, we exhale it. And good science has revealed that no correlation exist to show CO2 drives warming. Demonizing CO2 is all about the tax dollars, and that’s all its about.
See the scam for what it is and don’t believe any of it.
Polar Bears are doing fine:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/190805/2...
Phil Jones admits NO statistically significant warming
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/1...
35 major errors in Al Gore’s movie
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...
Court rules Al Gore’s movie unfit without disclaimer (11 major errors reviewed)
http://creation.com/al-gores-inconvenien...
Graphs showing that CO2 does NOT drive Temperature
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/...
Warming on Mars -- and Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?ne...
Lord Monckton destroys Warmist in debate (Video)
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andre...
For the full story on the man-made Global Warming scam watch these:
The Great Global Warming Swindle
I cant help you sorry, I believe natural cycles have more effect on our climate, don't go with the other answers as you will be shot down in flames, "warming faster than nature" I could show the CET record that goes back 300 yrs and the temps rose 0.8C in that time.
First of all, there is no global warming of any kind. Temperatures have moderated for the past 17 years or more.
Secondly, there are not nearly enough temperature readings to make accurate findings.
Global warming is what happens after I eat a bowl of hot chili. Whew!
It's both nature and human activity. Because of human activity, the environment is warming far faster than nature allows on its own.
In my class we are doing a debate on whether Global Warming is caused by nature or humans and fossil fuels can you please help I need some good questions for the side the believes global warming is caused by humans and fossil fuels a real think please help
what is the level of your science education?
do you allow your religious views to influence your views of science?
why did the conservative movement make global warming a political issue?
why is it when you look into who says global warming isn't real you can find a connection to the conservative movement or an affiliation to the fossil fuel industry?
who is more likely to accept money to lie? friends with the fossil fuel industry, or friends of hard science?
What historical data shows global warming not to be a trend?
goto nasa website. humans cause.
