Is global warming man-caused?

Never has been and is not so today. Those who believe in it are using bad math and even worse science to promote a political agenda.

How climate and weather really work

http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-glo...

http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/

The history of climate that your teacher never learned

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html#an...

Why co2 is not the driver of warming

http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/T...

http://landshape.org/enm/greenhouse-thermodynamics...

How the mistakes were made because the perpetrators were not well enough educated to understand the complexities they were faced with.

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2543

http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/Fetter/Presentatio...

The sun has more effect on global warming than anything man can dish out. Whenever the sun is active with many sun spot cycles the extra radiation warms the earth entirely. Man made causes would include green house gases, structures (ie pavement, parking lots and roof tops) and burning of fuels contribute also but more localized. So in conclusion both contribute at different levels. The real question is can we control our part?

I think it is. I'm studying for a physics masters and I find the subject fascinating, so I've read up on it. I even went as far as to look through hundreds of scientific abstracts and didn't find a single one that undermines the theory.

It's a very complex system, but models can extract useful information from such a system. For example: a box of gas particles is an unbelievably complex system:it changes state hundreds of trillions of times every second! Yet we can work out its heat capacity, temperature, pressure, volume etc very well...

All the evidence I've seen is consistent with my own knowledge of physics and has been sufficient to convince me, like it has the majority of climate scientists (according to the recent Eos poll and the positions of peer reviewed scientific papers)

Zerstorer: what about the cooling of Uranus? (Young et al, 2001). Or satellite records of the Sun showing no long term output change? (Lockwood & Frohlich, 2007).

It is likely. CO2 absorbs IR, that energy can be transferred to other gases through collisions. The amount of CO2 has increased. Not much one can argue about.

I looked through some of James' links and they all seem to rely on Miskolczi theory. I quickly looked over the theory and the first thing that jump out at me is Kirkhoff’s Law is totally misused. I barely looked at the theory and the flaws just jumped out. Apparently, I am not the only one that has noticed this:

http://rabett.blogspot.com/2008/06/gigo-eli-has-le...

Yet James claims that only the deniers understand science. hmmph.

It is also interesting how such a revolutionary theory could not get published in a better journal than the Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service.

http://met.hu/doc/idojaras/vol111001_01.pdf

Any credible reviewers would have caught the errors and rejected the paper outright for just plain bad science.

No. It's the sun.

1) The sun is bigger and more powerful than we are. (duh)

2) Human beings are insignificant specks on the earth. (Sorry if this damages your psyche by making you feel insignificant.

3) The sun goes through cycles that correlate exceptionally well with the temperature of the earth.

4) The earth used to be much warmer than it is now, and much colder. we're well between the extremes.

When most of the people on the world are more comfortable naked all the time than clothed, I'll believe it's getting too warm.

No. look up global warming on Mars, Venus, etc. unless you think the little green men up there drive big SUV's

The data of 1 deg over 100 years ,that has no calibration is garbage.

Don't matter. It's too late to halt the process.

We do know man influences it.

And, big oil companies don't wanna lose their billion dollar profits.

I think there are two things that are definitely "man made" going on here. One is AGW !

The other is DENIAL OF SCIENCE !

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/video.html

http://www.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090127/ts_alt_af...