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Why is the global warming movement unwilling to admit there is no problem?
Emotion aside ... let's not debate how we feel about the climate, only the facts of the research that have been done.
80 years of climate study has resulted in only one dominant predictor of global heating and cooling ... solar activity. Carbon Dioxide accounts for less than 0.05% of the air-born gases on this planet, and human produced CO2 accounts for only 5 - 10% of that. This movement is about a war against industry and progress, not climate change. Climate change has been happening for millions of years, and the planet was hotter than it is now when it had the most life on it (think pre-historic time). The solar activity observed until last year was at a 500 year peak (and it was hotter), but for the last year has been extremely low.
What happens when the earth starts to cool again? Will we blame that on global warming also?
All the link below point to computer models of temperature. As anyone who works with computer models knows, the output from those models more revealing of the assumptions that went into the model rather than the reliability of the output.
The actual temperature record shows a 35 year cooling trend from 1940 to 1975, a period where carbon emissions were unchecked and unregulated. If a reduction in CO2 is the "cure" for global warming, than why are temperatures still on the rise despite this decade-long effort to reduce emissions?
Plus, did we not mention the fact that Al Gore shifted the CO2 data plots in his book 850 years to the past? This helped to line up the CO2 levels with the temperature data. In reality, the CO2 data reflected that CO2 changed as a result of temperature change, not in advance of it.
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- ?Lv 44 years ago
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- bubbaLv 61 decade ago
CO2 is less than .05% of atmospheric gases. Water vapor is the largest and methane after CO2. Al Gore has only voiced concern. He has nothing to do with the science or data. The greenhouse effect has been know for 100 years and this subject has been around for a long time.
http://www.sciam.com/media/pdf/2008-12_1959-carbon...
The computer models are based on physics. Anyone who has worked in politics knows computer models are far more trustworthy. This is not a scheme to "win a war" with industry. If anything, industry is at war with science.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24...
Most SCIENTISTS agree the problem should be taken seriously.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.g...
I'm thinking that you need to look at some of the summaries of the science. If you read this you might understand why a minor component of our atmosphere like CO2 is so important. No need to call party leaders. There is no rule against thinking for yourself!
http://climate.noaa.gov/education/pdfs/ClimateLite...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/EnergyBa...
- 1 decade ago
You must also consider the possibility that a large increase in man-made co2 levels could throw off the natural co2 cycle and therefore produce a magnified effect.
I believe the earth releases around 180 billion Gtons of CO2 per year while man-made levels are at 3 billion Gtons, so the natural cycle could be thrown off.
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- Dana1981Lv 71 decade ago
The only problem is that you don't understand fundamental physics or climate science.
Explain me this - global temperatures have increased about 0.5°C over the past 30 years. During that period, solar activity has been flat.
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600p...
http://www.mps.mpg.de/images/projekte/sun-climate/...
So if the Sun is the only cause of climate change and solar activity is flat, how do you explain the recent warming?
The scientific explanation is available in the link below.
- cosmoLv 71 decade ago
So it's a record high temperature today where I live. It's the first record high this year. There were two record highs last year and no record lows. In fact, it's been five years since there was a record low.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
i like other astrologers believe that the earth and the rest of this galexy will be wiped out by a solar flare in as early as 2050
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think the core and only problem with AGW is none of the promoters and supporters of it have done any actual lab or field work on the subject and the evidence claimed for it.
when i evaluated the experiment that they use world wide to claim co2 is a green house gas it was simple through the use of scientific method and close observation that their method of producing the co2 for the experiment was contaminating the sample with high levels of humidity. when the humidity of the two samples was equalized the co2 warmed slower and cooled faster than the ambient air sample.
Same with the claim that co2 causes water to become more acidic. Simple research in a basic chemistry lesson showed that the co2 concentration or water is temperature based and automatic. When water cools it will absorb co2 to its maximum capacity like a sponge. when warmed it will release that co2 back into the air.
So very basic simple forms of science quickly illustrate the lack of scientific knowledge the AGW proponents posses.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Your premise is incorrect - solar activity has nothing to do with *current* warming (in the last half century) -
https://sites.google.com/site/europa62/climatechan...
Solar activity is one of the biggest *natural* influences on global temperature, with the ENSO being another. So, what should we expect to see if we control for those factors by looking at only the years in the last half century that have seen both a solar minimum and La Niña conditions? If human activity is having no significant influence then we should see temperatures being about the same during all these years. What we actually see is this:
https://sites.google.com/site/europa62/climatechan...
... which correlates at an extremely high level (98.4%) with anthropogenic CO2 emissions:
https://sites.google.com/site/europa62/climatechan...
Also, the natural interannual variability of global average temperatures is about 0.2°C. The current warming trend is about 0.2°C per decade. Therefore it's no good looking at a couple of years' temperatures to determine whether the current warming trend has changed - we have to look at the trend for at least 15 years to see the trend clearly distinguished from normal interannual variability. If we do this, we see that there has been essentially no change at all in the current warming trend -
https://sites.google.com/site/europa62/climatechan...
So, global warming is happening, it hasn't slowed down, stopped or reversed, and it is due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, not to any natural factors.