the medieval warm period was a period of advance, prosperity, the little ice age was a period of famine, disease and starvation, I know which was more like hell.
It is not temperature but heat. If you have a bucket of ice and water 50% water and you heat it up it stays the same temperature and the ice turns into water. We are gaining heat energy and melting the ice caps. when they go the temperature is going to shoot up steeply.
But the deniers must be right, because their well-developed theories of climate reinforce each other so well, because so many of them were A students in school science, published many peer-reviewed articles in science journals, and were awarded Nobel Prizes. The alarmist scientists are tiny minority in comparison. Besides, the denier scientists are endorsed by Rush Limbaugh, Michel Bachman, Rick Perry and Sarah Palin, and the most famous scholar of all: Billy.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2010:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record...
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpine...
“Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia…Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.”
http://www.physics.fsu.edu/awards/NAS/
“The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes. Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.”
With so many insane deniers on here, barely coherent sarcasm just doesn't work.
Nice try, though.
Because only very very smart people can see the Emperor's new clothes.
That has always been acknowledged you just don't pay attention
In cold years like these, climate change deniers always ask a trick question, "How come global warming can cause both heating and cooling?" The answer is actually quite simple.
We all know that sometimes it's hot as Hell*, and sometimes it's cold as Hell. Clearly, Hell can make it hotter or colder. The science is settled on the fact that global warming will be Hell on Earth, and since Hell can make it hotter or colder, global warming can, therefore, also make it hotter or colder.
Let's go one step further. Things can also boring as Hell, as in "nothing's happening, it's the same old same-old." Thus, Hell can also mean that things don't change. If you've followed the reasoning so far, you can clearly see that if it gets hotter, colder, or temperatures are flat, it's due to global warming. Just as predicted.
Granted, the realization that warming can cause cooling takes a little imagination, and this is exactly what the deniers lack, or they wouldn't deny imaginary science. Any way you cut it, warming is a catastrophe. Imagine every day of the year two degrees hotter. Tomorrow it will be 22 degrees instead of today's 20. A day six months from now it will go from 90 to 92 degrees. Can you imagine the carnage? Not if you're a denier.
We're talking about a return to the Medieval warm period. We certainly know what that entails. Viking raids will start up all over again. The polar bear will become extinct a second time. All peer-reviewed literature will be written in Latin. There'll be no Obamacare and everybody's four humors will get totally out of whack without the government managing our bodily functions. And that's just the tip of the iceberg - except there'll be no icebergs!
All because of CO2. You know what produces a lot of CO2? Climate change deniers, who just can't stop breathing in and out. We must put an end to that. - See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/global-warming-cooling-explained-t12929.html#sthash.oEdZRfbf.dpuf
