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Anonymous asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 1 decade ago

Where is the evidence on global warming?

Are there any conclusive Studies available?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    This just about sums it up and it is from respected scientists.

    1.The "Greenhouse Effect" is a natural and valuable phenomenon, without which, the planet would be uninhabitable.

    2. Modest Global Warming, at least up until 1998 when a cooling trend began, has been real.

    3. CO2 is not a significant greenhouse gas; 95% of the contribution is due to Water Vapor.

    4. Man's contribution to Greenhouse Gasses is relatively insignificant. We didn't cause the recent Global Warming and we cannot stop it.

    5. Solar Activity appears to be the principal driver for Climate Change, accompanied by complex ocean currents which distribute the heat and control local weather systems.

    6. CO2 is a useful trace gas in the atmosphere, and the planet would actually benefit by having more, not less of it, because it is not a driver for Global Warming and would enrich our vegetation, yielding better crops to feed the expanding population.

    7. CO2 is not causing global warming, in fact, CO2 is lagging temperature change in all reliable datasets. The cart is not pulling the donkey, and the future cannot influence the past.

    8. Nothing happening in the climate today is particularly unusual, and in fact has happened many times in the past and will likely happen again in the future.

    9. The UN IPCC has corrupted the "reporting process" so badly, it makes the oil-for-food scandal look like someone stole some kid's lunch money. They do not follow the Scientific Method, and modify the science as needed to fit their predetermined conclusions. In empirical science, one does NOT write the conclusion first, then solicit "opinion" on the report, ignoring any opinion which does not fit their predetermined conclusion while falsifying data to support unrealistic models.

    10. Polar Bear populations are not endangered, in fact current populations are healthy and at almost historic highs. The push to list them as endangered is an effort to gain political control of their habitat... particularly the North Slope oil fields.

    11. There is no demonstrated causal relationship between hurricanes and/or tornadoes and global warming. This is sheer conjecture totally unsupported by any material science.

    12. Observed glacial retreats in certain select areas have been going on for hundreds of years, and show no serious correlation to short-term swings in global temperatures.

    13. Greenland is shown to be an island completely surrounded by water, not ice, in maps dating to the 14th century. There is active geothermal activity in the currently "melting" sections of Greenland.

    14. The Antarctic Ice cover is currently the largest ever observed by satellite, and periodic ice shelf breakups are normal and correlate well with localized tectonic and geothermal activity along the Antarctic Peninsula.

    15. The Global Warming Panic was triggered by an artifact of poor mathematics which has been thoroughly disproved. The panic is being deliberately nurtured by those who stand to gain both financially and politically from perpetuation of the hoax.

    16. Scientists who "deny" the hoax are often threatened with loss of funding or even their jobs.

    17. The correlation between solar activity and climate is now so strong that solar physicists are now seriously discussing the much greater danger of pending global cooling.

    18. Biofuel hysteria is already having a disastrous effect on world food supplies and prices, and current technologies for biofuel production consume more energy than the fuels produce.

    19. Global Warming Hysteria is potentially linked to a stress-induced mental disorder.

    20. In short, there is no "climate crisis" of any kind at work on our planet.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You do realize that all Science is so intertwined, and interdependent, that if one area of Science is "fake" , or a "fraud" , it would be like having an engine with wooden pistons.

    What area of Science is being faked?

    Is it just the Atmospheric Scientists?

    Are the Climatologists in on the world wide US tax scam?

    How many Marine Biologists do you think are faking data to suck up grant money?

    How long has this fraud been going on?

    What did they do with the real data before the scam was started?

    Do they have a secret convention every year to indoctrinate the recently graduated Scientists?

    Do they have a secret handshake to identify fellow tax conspirators?

    Is the current money shortage being caused by the phony Scientists hoarding all their ill gotten gains under their mattresses?

    With all Science being denied because of those stolen e-mails, will common sense finally prevail? I mean, any fool can easily see that it's the Sun warming the Earth.

    Nobody actually needs an elitist Scientist to know that the Sun moves across the sky, as the Earth stands still.

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Global warming has been proven a hoax. Search for 'climategate' online. The UN and other globalist groups just want to institute a global carbon tax and make carbon credits into a hot new commodity. Then all the carbon trading companies will make a huge profit off these. Al Gore and others who own these carbon trading companies have already made millions from trading carbon credits, and when their mandated by international law, they'll make billions. It's all a scam from head to toe. The carbon trading system was devised by Ken Lay, former CEO of Enron, and see how that turned out? More Carbon dioxide in the air would mean more greenery and that plants would need less water. More plants mean more oxygen and less of the real harmful toxins like sulfur and carbon monoxide. Please open your eyes to this conspiracy. They're feeding off well-meaning people. But we the people shall prevail!

    Oh yeah, polar bear populations have increased three fold in the last forty years... Just some food for thought.

    Source(s): www.infowars.com
  • 1 decade ago

    Ever where.

    Melbourne last NIGHT 34°C lowest temperature, just a heatwave ?

    Wishful thinking ?

    Just tip in "Global Warming" or "Climate Change" on the www, and see for yourself.

    The question should not be : Is global warming man made or natural ?

    It should be : What happens IF global warming IS man made ?

    Can we gamble with the future ?

    Human life is not a game of poker !

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  • 1 decade ago

    the manipulated statistics along with SELECTED scenes of glaciers melting looks scary and real.

    BUT it is not the full story, other glaciers are growing and ice is thickening in many parts of the world.

    And change is natural there is no absolute evidence that any warming is man made at all.

    And even if warming is real, we are coming out of an ice age , so warming is more beneficial than freezing!

    Most of the heat is in al gore's head.

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    7 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    who's idea's was it anyways to try and control the universe and all that is and the life energy force within ...seriously some brave lil humans are we now...save the planet stop this do that not this...i never knew a race so confused fighting amongst themselves...what a shame to be from earth..well the humans at least..i bet the animals and nature know whats happening it just the expansion of the universe "time". use all your brain and you will know this.

  • Bob
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Thousands. It's an accumulation of science and data from many independent scientists, not one study. This is how science works. And why the vast majority of scientists agree that it's real, and mostly caused by us. The "weight of the evidence" is overwhelming. Here's a list of hundreds of them that just cover one small area, scan the titles, and you'll get the idea.

    http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/e...

    If you want to look at just one study, this is a good one, although you must remember, it's just one of thousands.

    Meehl, et al, (2004), Combinations of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings in Twentieth-Century Climate, Journal of Climate, 37:3725

    http://cawcr.gov.au/bmrc/clfor/cfstaff/jma/meehl_a...

    You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download). Or you could look it up at a university library.

    If you just want a web report, this is the best short one, from the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Adobe Reader version:

    http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climate_change...

    non Adobe, but it omits all the graphics, including important graphs:

    http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Lu2m2KzBwOwJ:d...

    This is excellent, but long, as befits the science.

    http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/cl...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I summed up the evidence in the link below, with links to many scientific studies.

  • 1 decade ago

    There is NO conclusive evidence backing man made global warming. It is at best a shaky theory.

    http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_c...

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