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Yes, we did this to ourselves and we are going to face the consequences.
Doubtful. There has yet to be a climate model that can predict various global temperatures yet, so knowing why the climate is doing what it’s doing is impossible to tell.
Also the Earth’s climate has never been constant, and the current trends being experienced are nothing unusual.
Finally the number of political issues being placed on the back of this issue, and the fact that groups like NASA, and NOAA produce climate data get their funding from the government, it’s not unreasonable to consider that conflict of interest.
It’s certainly possible that global warming is not a human- made or exacerbated problem. If it is, there’s nothing we can do about it. But if it’s not, and it logically seems that way, since we are pumping carbon into the atmosphere in astronomical quantities, wouldn’t it be prudent to limit the amount of damage we are doing. If we one day have absolute proof that it’s us, it will be too late to do anything. If we can prove that it’s not us, we’ll only have made the world cleaner for our children. There’s no downside!
Jason, I’ll put a link to your blog on mine!
I don’t think that global warming is man made because you have the sun that is what is heating up our Earth and the fact has been stated that most of the carbon beeing emitted into the Atmosphere comes from the sea.
the idea of man made global warming is absurd because they claim that the world is entropic but that the fundamental principle of the universe is not entropic its constantly changing.
and one funny thing is that on Mars the polar ice there is also melting so is it the Marsian made or are we gonna blame this one to on Humans.
Global warming is sun made.
Yea, we are eating right through our ozone, and it's depressing because all these animals are going extinct because of it.
Absolutely not, 98% of green house gases are made by water. The earths climate has been going in cycles for years. Notice all the envirmental people changed from global cooling to global warming in the 70′s, now we are entering a cooling stage and they realize the pattern. Rather than noticing the obvious they change the name to climate change.
By the way, yes the north pole has melted a bit, but antarctica has expanded greatly.
Yes global warming is man made. It was made up by men.
I love to wax lyrical on the beauty of the universe , the singing of the Spheres etc. Nature does what Nature does.
This is one of my favourite quotes of all time:-
"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history"—yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die."
—Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense
Damn it! Ra is out to get us
Three strikes:
1.Climate models are validated by testing them against historical data. They do indeed recreate past trends quite well, when forced with both the known cooling effects of volcanoes and soot aerosols from human activity, plus the known warming effects of CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases.
2. The current trends are already well outside the bounds of natural variability, and are indeed "unusual."
3. There is no conflict of interest in getting research grants from the National Science Foundation. (Getting paid by Exxon to go around nitpicking and promoting doubt and mistrust of scientists might be a conflict of interest, but not NSF.) How exactly do you propose that the scientists should pay for their research, all the satellites, spectrographs, LIDAR sensors, ocean data buoys, flights into the eye of hurricanes, etc.?
Why would the government try to bias research into creating a problem that the government is clearly having a hard time addressing? Wouldn't their life have been easier by not manufacturing a crisis for themselves in the first place?
This is where the reasoning breaks down. You have to descend into conspiracy theories that the US government, including the Bush administration, paid to have scientists make up a big problem, just so the UN could start global taxation – or something like that. Huh? Neither Bush nor Obama would stand to gain anything by making the UN more powerful at the expense of the US.
Do you have any examples of #2, because I would love to believe in climate change so I could feel good about myself because I am concerned with something. It would make me feel less guilty about everything wrong I have done with my life. Yup, as long as I stay worried and concerned with this, that must make me a good person.
This is how climate change is so attractive to people. It is a way for people to feel good about themselves by feeling concern over something external.
Too bad they just didn’t read the facts. Greenhouse gases are primarily created by water, the polar bears are not disappearing they are increasing in population, and a few hacked e-mails are an example of what really happens in the science labs of the world.