It's good that you realized the REAL debate is about "man-made" Global Warming and 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 Warmist 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
Yes. It started with the industrial revolution. People started the industrial revolution, developed fossil fuel burning engines and power plants, deforested large areas of the earth, created huge fires and smoked trillions of tobacco products, used fluorocarbons including from a/c, hairsprays, etc etc etc. Look, we are all responsible. Humans just do not want to admit we can damage the earth. Plus, the greedy want to keep making money from the oil and gas companies, auto companies, etc. Politicians and certain radio/tv personalities (hello, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh) all are getting money by saying there is no such thing as global warming (let alone GW caused by people).
It's time to wake up, people. Within 20 years, Florida will be half under water, as will much of the other coastal states because the warming will cause the oceans to keep rising.
Right Linlyons, you might also look at the watermelon politicians that support it. A watermelon is green on the outside and red on the inside. If you define global warming as that warming that is caused by humans, then GW by definition is caused by humans. It is an ill defined name which is why the political hack alarmists like it. It is meaningless without a real definition. Even AGW (anthropogenic (man-caused)) is ill defined because it doesn't give a time interval. A real scientist and even intelligent and informed non-scientists would never use a name like global warming. It leads to too many false assumptions such as the world was stable until humans, industry, and capitalism came along. Climates always change and we were in an unusually cold period called the Little Ice Age that we have been warming up from for nearly 300 years. The rise in the last 100 years is pretty close to the previous 100 years based on most proxies and historical records. Trying to blame that on humans is absurd.
Linlyons links to cuddly polar bear cubs to pull at your heart strings because a logical scientific argument isn't in their repertoire. Chem links to left wing blogs that are neither skeptical nor about science.
unknown, the info that we have would suggest that humans are making an impact but, as long as that info continues to be manipulated to prove it. It throws everything into question. It's the boy who cried wolf at this point, to many false flags. Much like the Vaccinations cause Autism crap. The original info was manipulated and has now contaminated anything that may actually link the two.
Yes! Algore's hot air.
Yes it is. 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, 2013 and 2012.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
What warming, it has been 17yrs and 5 months with no temperature rise.
"HOW?"
http://www.rkm.com.au/ANIMATIONS/carbon-... <== here's the physics.
http://web4.audubon.org/globalwarming/im... <== this is why CO2 is a problem.
http://www.rsc.org/images/CA1_tcm18-1379... <== Word doc. Page 6 shows where H2O and CO2 intercept different wavelengths
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... <== Note that CO2 intercepts a different wavelength than water. In addition, as CO2 warms the oceans, more water evaporates, increasing it's effectiveness.
You're going to see some folks post that there isn't scientific consensus, that models don't work, that this or that scientist says it's cooling, or not warming, or we don't know, or warming is good, or other planets are warming, or scientists get grants to say that it's warming, or any number diversionary things. They need to get over it -- it's warming. And that warming is caused by the 40% increase in atmospheric CO2 caused by burning coal and oil.
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-conse...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...
Keep in mind that the argument today is a political argument.
One might look at which politicians deny global warming, and how much coal or oil is extracted from the ground in the states they are from. There is a pretty high correlation on this. The fossil fuel industry gives them campaign donations, and they protect the fossil fuel industry.
According to JimZ, "Chem links to left wing blogs that are neither skeptical nor about science."
Yeah, like EPA and National Grographic.
That said, skepticalscience.com is written by actual climate scientists.
As for my liking cuddly polar bears, if you can't disprove the argument, attack the individual.
As for his contention that he's a geologist, one might keep in mind that a fairly large percentage of geologists are employed by the fossil fuel industry. Good to keep that perspective in mind when reading his posts.
Yep it is definitely caused by human emissions
No, it is caused by humans.
yes
In part certainly
Yep.
Some sources for more information:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (I posted a question asking people to give links to information at varying levels of experience)
HOW?
