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Global temp. has been rising sense 1900. Why do deniers only quote the last 10 years?
This graph shows temp is noway near what it was in 1900. Why do they point to a single ice storm in Texas as if it is proof? It was 85 in January where I live...North 33 degrees and 4000 feet elevation. What would they say about that? are they stupid or just acting like it?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Because you are dealing with folks who are not the sharpest tacks in the office supply store. That's why they completely ignore 130+ years of climate science in favor of whatever the Koch Brothers tell them, which certainly wouldn't include a scintilla of peer-reviewed science...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Actually, the Earth has been on a steady temperature rise since the mini Ice Age, which was before 1900. The correlation to increased solar activity was very high. And when solar activity declined 10 years ago, so global temperature stopped increasing.
Most of the "proof" offered by the Warmers has been anecdotal, or based on massaged data or climate models with significantly incorrect assumptions.
As we collect more data, the less and less there appears to be any correlation of global temperature or climate to man.
- Philip HLv 71 decade ago
Why start with 1900?
Include everything since the last mini ice age.
Include the Global warming that allowed the Vikings to raise crops in Iceland.
Include the end of the ice age 40,000 years age.
Our use of petroleum was responsible for those also?
Get some Real Science to back up your conjecture.
Since the development of the SUV, the Earth has been cooling.
True "Scientific Proof" is nonexistent on this issue.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Let's see. The world has been around billions of years, and man started tracking weather about 150 years ago. So, you want me to believe that what happened over the last 110 years is a climate trend? Based on what? You tell me, with validated scientific proof, what the weather trends were for the last 3 billion years and maybe I'll be able to see your point...but more than likely, you'll see mine.
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- jeeper_peeper321Lv 71 decade ago
Because the Little Ice Age ended around 1880
So of course the temperature started increasing back to normal
So the question is, what is normal ?
Before the little ice age, we had the medieval warm period, where we know temperatures in the northern hemisphere were warmer than they are today.
But because there are no written records concerning temperatures in the southern hemisphere for the medieval warm period, climate scientist just ignore it in their climate calculations.
- TATLv 71 decade ago
Try again. Newsweek printed cover story in the 70's about the coming ice age due to cooling temperatures that began in 1945
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/32821
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/08/19/74019/drop-i...
Temperatures have been cooling again for the last 11 years
http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Repo...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&...
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2008...
The planet was cooling between 1945 and 1973. It has gone through these cycles since the beginning to time. Relax.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
My favorite Mark Twain quote,
"There are three kinds of lies.
Lies,
Damn Lies,
and Statistics." (in your case graphs)
You and your Cult know nothing, and especially nothing about how to control weather. If you did, you could just make tornadoes remove anyone who disagrees with your preaching. But that wouldn't get our money, would it?
- BaroccoliLv 71 decade ago
So, according to your graph it rose .4 degrees over the last 150 years. If the average temperature in 1860 was let's say 76 degrees. It would now be 76.4 degrees? Oh my god, end everything, we're all gonna die.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
We were just coming out of the Little Ice Age in 1900
I would certainly hope that temperatures would be higher than that
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the earth goes through the same natural cycle as your freezer does, some times it defrost an some times it freezes. but man made global warming does not exist,
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Listen lefty. We're not going to accept massive government control over the economy to allegedly stop the planet from being destroyed by capitalism. Get it?