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."
It is phony science.
Quote by Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
"Justice and equality' are codewords for Communism. Also, to note, it is advanced by admitted liars.
Quote by Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, and large CO2 producer: "I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis."
'Over-representation' is just a smoogy way of saying, "I'm telling you a bald faced lie."
"The Earth is wrapped in a blanket of air called the 'atmosphere', which is made up of several layers of gases. The sun is much hotter than the Earth and it gives off rays of heat (radiation) that travel through the atmosphere and reach the Earth. The rays of the sun warm the Earth, and heat from the Earth then travels back into the atmosphere. The gases in the atmosphere stop some of the heat from escaping into space. These gases are called greenhouse gases and the natural process between the sun, the atmosphere and the Earth is called the 'Greenhouse Effect', because it works the same way as a greenhouse. The windows of a greenhouse play the same role as the gases in the atmosphere, keeping some of the heat inside the greenhouse." [1]
Only fools would try to deny that changing the composition of the atmosphere has no effect on the heat retention capacity of the atmosphere. It is like a child with crumbs all over its face denying they took the cookie from the cookie jar.
A less foolish approach to denial is trying to cause doubt, by claiming that CO2 is saturated or that the effects are minimal. Like the child admitting that while it is true they ate the cookie, but there are still 23 cookies in the jar. Then you have arguments that this is is positive by claiming CO2 is good for plants. Like the child claiming it is good that they ate the cookie, because the waste product of the cookie (excrement) is good for plants.
Most of the time the reason for the denial is tin foil hat territory, one of the more common arguments I have seen is the suggestion it is a tax grab. When you look into it, it is obviously ridiculous to claim that thousands of scientist all over the world are secretly working together, publishing falsified science papers, in order to get the politicians in our nations to increase taxes on every one, including the scientists. It is like a child claiming that the crumbs on the face are a fiction of your imagination and you are trying to reduce their allowance for profit.
Then we have people who try to uses association fallacies [3] (often by misquoting and even outright fabrications) that because those people said something that sounds suspicious, that the whole scientific community is "bad"
Quotes by Sagebrush (who frequently quotes Nazi's to further his cause)
"Execute all those who voted for OBAMA",
"Sustainability is a codeword for communism",
"Hire the handicapped, they are fun to watch""
"Justice and equality are codewords for communism"
"God has his hand on the thermostat"
So while it is obvious what kind of person Sagebrush is, if we were to use his "logic" [3] it would make ALL deniers, genocidal, Nazi loving, justice, equality and sustainability hating, religious extremists. Although it would not be unreasonable to assume that his fans [4] are.
A giant SCAM for power and money.
Top climate scientists say there is no man-made Global Warming.
The Great Global Warming Swindle
warming of the globe
Short Answer
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Global warming is the term used to describe the progressive increase in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere. This is increasing because we are emitting large amounts of heat-retaining greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. One of the primary effects is a shift in global weather patterns, often referred to as climate change.
Long Answer
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There are two parts to global warming, the natural and the manmade ones.
The natural warming is primarily caused by changes in the amount of heat from the Sun and variations in the way Earth moves in space. Most of these changes are cyclical, they happen on a regular basis; as such they are also predictable. These cycles vary in duration from a few years to millions of years.
It’s the manmade component that is giving rise to a great deal of concern. This comes about because our modern lifestyles produce a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and these have the ability to retain heat within our atmosphere. It’s the same mechanism that leads to natural warming, just that the source is different.
The planet goes through it's own natural warming and cooling phases. The most recent ice-age was the result of a cyclical cooling event, and then 19,000 years ago the Earth entered the warming phase. Over the next 10,000 years temperatures rose by 7°C and the ice retreated.
Since then we have started on the road to the next ice-age with the overall temperature of the Earth being in a slow decline. Recent warming has more than undone all of this cooling but if things return to normal then the next ice-age will peak in about 73,000 years time.
Using scientific techniques we can reconstruct an accurate picture of the climate over the last million years and a general picture stretching as far back as 542 million years. In the last couple of hundred years there are detailed weather records we can refer to and since the 1970’s we have global satellite observations.
What we have seen in recent decades is a significant increase in average global temperatures. During the 80’s and 90’s temperatures rose by about 0.5°C, since then the atmosphere hasn’t warmed as much of the heat is now going into the oceans and short-term influences are masking the underlying warming.
A temperature rise of 0.5°C since 1980 may not seem much it's many times faster than at any time in known history and is faster than many natural systems can cope with.
Why then is the world warming up? About 250 years ago we witnessed the birth of industrialisation and since then the world has become ever more industrialised. Our modern lifestyles produce huge quantities of greenhouse gases and herein lies the problem.
Greenhouse gases have the ability to trap heat; the more of these gases there are in the atmosphere the more heat becomes trapped. We humans have produced so much greenhouse gas in recent decades that atmospheric concentrations has increased by over 40% causing more heat to be retained. In the last 100 years the average global temperature has increased by just less than 1°C.
The temperature rise to date has already had serious implications. Millions of people have fled their homes as their land has turned to desert or water supplies have failed. In Siberia one million square kilometres of permafrost (permanently frozen ground) has melted and turned into mud and lakes. In mountainous regions glaciers have retreated further than they’ve ever been known to retreat before, half of these glaciers have melted completely. The number and intensity of extreme weather events such as floods and droughts has increased, diseases have spread into new regions, and significant amounts of the polar ice caps are melting and crumbling into the sea.
Where it gets much harder is predicting what will happen in the future - there's many factors to be taken into consideration and some of these aren’t particularly well understood. There’s been substantial research undertaken around the globe by a wide range of institutions and most reports predict global temperature rises of between 2°C and 4°C by the end of this century.
So what will the future effects of global warming be? The polar ice caps will continue to melt which will keep causing sea levels to rise. So far this hasn't had a dramatic impact but a rise of just a few feet will be enough to see many coastal areas inundated with water. Major cities such as London, New York and Miami are at or very close to sea level. In the next two or three hundred years many millions of people could need to be relocated as large areas of land are lost to the sea.
Some countries won't have the resources to protect their towns and cities and the inhabitants will be forced to relocate. Millions of square miles of agricultural land will be lost. Parts of Asia and Africa will be hardest hit.
There will be a shift in weather patterns, like we've seen in recent years but more so. For some this will bring benefits but for others it will bring hardships. Areas of barren wasteland will become fertile and could be used agriculturally but at the same time there will be desertification of fertile areas. New areas suitable for habitation will be formed but at the same time some areas will become uninhabitable. Some places will become wetter, others drier, some will become hotter, others colder. Extreme weather events will continue to become more common.
Some plants and animals will have to adapt, others will become extinct. At the same time others will flourish and this may be a good thing or a bad thing. For example, increased grain production would be beneficial but more swarms of locusts would be detrimental.
The concept of global warming was first noted 200 years ago, back then the mechanics weren’t understood. Today we know why global warming is happening and understand the physical science involved. All the same, there’s still much to be learned and each time we discover something new it adds another piece to a very complicated jigsaw.
man made carbon tax
It's more than a few sentences
Wikipedia has a good explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...
