The facts are that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that without greenhouse gases the earth average temperature would be 33C colder (a giant snowball) and that we have added 40% more CO2 to the atmosphere. There is not one person who denies these facts. From what I understand the issue is how to accurately predict the future warming trend, will the earth warm by 1.5C ,by 4.5C, or most likely 3C by the end of the century? Most of the computer climate models fall in between those numbers. However we have no other earth nor the funds, nor would we be so callus if we had another earth, to test those predictions on.
The claim "It's cooling"is denier myth number 9, the claim "Ice age predicted in the 70s" is denier myth number 12 and the claim "CO2 lags temperature" is denier myth number 11 on Skepticalscience dot com, which keeps a list of the more common denier claims and debunks each and every one of them.
Another interesting read to understand why there is an issue on yahoo answers is the study "NASA faked the moon landing—Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science." by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky
And to show the mindset of those deniers on this section of yahoo answers, here are some quotes by Sagebrush (a self proclaimed Christian and ardent AGW denier) : "Execute all those who voted for OBAMA" and "Hire the handicapped, they are fun to watch!"
The main issues are that we are all being made to pay extra tax in the vain hope that tax will stop the natural phenomena of emerging from the last ice age. The trend is that, far from warming up, the world is very very slowly cooling down, the magma in the earth``s centre is shrinking, hence the tectonic plates are moving more and the world is shrinking ever so slightly, Son of Krakatoa is due to erupt, as is the caldera of Yellowstone park, which, if sorry, WHEN it goes, it will take 90% of North America along with it, Iceland`s area is growing faster than ever because of the eruptions more tsunami in the last 5 years than in the previous 30, more earthquakes etc.
CO2 emission are a great big contributor to the climate changes. It tends to make the air warmer, and when there are really hot summers, there is going to be really cold winters.
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."
Apparently the main issues are to tax us into oblivion and take away our liberties.
http://drinkingwateradvisor.com/2012/03/...
The main issue is that CO2 increases are driving global temperatures up.
My argument is that CO2 has been rising steadily for many years and temperatures have always fluctuated.
Temperature data for the past 140 years show a rise in temperatures from about 1905 to around 1940 of about 0.45 C degrees when CO2 output was still relatively low. From around 1940 to 1975 global temperatures dropped by 0.1 C degrees when CO2 output tripled around the globe during that time. To say that CO2 is driving temperatures up or down is a fallacy. The scares of a coming Ice Age were very prevalent during the 70s.
IPCC Temperature Records vs. CO2 Records
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"Ice core data (Vostok Station in Antarctica) shows warming causes CO2 to rise. It also shows that a rise in CO2 levels lags temperatures by as much as 800 years." (There have been several research studies on ice core samples that show the same results) - Dr. Ian Clark – Dept. of Earth Sciences
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“Arctic Temperatures – Recent research shows that the Arctic was 6 to 8 degrees higher 8000 years ago and that change occurred over a couple of decades.” - Dr. Ian Clark – Dept. of Earth Sciences
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“The “Greenhouse Gas Theory” is very clear on what should happen in the upper atmosphere (troposphere) during ‘Global Warming’. - ‘When the surface temperatures rise then the upper air in the atmosphere (mid-troposphere) should warm rapidly.’ There is no dramatic change in the upper or middle troposphere.” - Dr John Christy – Atmospheric Physicist, Earth System Science Center, NSSTC, University of Alabama and Lead author of IPCC Report
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There is no measurable warming that can be attributed to man's additional CO2 output. Man only contributes less than 1% of all of the "greenhouse gas effect" that warms the planet.
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The IPCC was invented by the British in 1988. Margaret Thatcher was wanting to promote Nuclear energy because she didn't want to contend with the Arabs or the British Coal Miner's Union. The IPCC was established to prove that CO2 emissions caused "Global Warming". Government funds and resources were now available to all scientists to prove it.
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The trend is that the global temperature hasn't risen for the past 16 years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...
Well the main issue and trends are, nothing much is happening, how can these poor AGW activists survive, they need some of their calamitous predictions to come true, and yet we are still all here and getting along quite well thank you.
In order to see the Emperor's new clothes and understand the complexities of climate change you must first feel the rapture.
Provide a brief synopsis of global climate change. What are the main issues and trends?
