Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real

[copacetic]

The report is based on questions posed to 1,372 scientists. Nearly all the experts agreed that it is "very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for most of the unequivocal warming of the Earth's average global temperature in the second half of the twentieth century."

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[BCO]

Clearly they're just saying that so they can keep their funding. /s

 

[luxe]

I found the UFO thing in the Antarctic a lot more plausible.

Honestly Copa, less global warming, more aliens in the ocean.

 

[copacetic]

I found the UFO thing in the Antarctic a lot more plausible.

Honestly Copa, less global warming, more aliens in the ocean.

Let me just go fetch my tin-foil fedora quick.

 

[McGuywer]

Interesting fact.
Perhaps the system/earth or what not was designed to let man make the earth warmer.
Meaning, the minerals provided to us by the earth, would be used to cause our own extinction.
If you understand what I mean...

 

[copacetic]

Interesting fact.
Perhaps the system/earth or what not was designed to let man make the earth warmer.
Meaning, the minerals provided to us by the earth, would be used to cause our own extinction.
If you understand what I mean...

Can't say I'm following you.

 

[McGuywer]

Can't say I'm following you.

Okay, never mind.

I was never good with science...

 

[scotty777]

Can't say I'm following you.

I didn't understand either?

 

[copacetic]

Okay, never mind.

I was never good with science...

Me neither, I always sucked at it, which is why I let qualified experts make decisions about the matter.

Feel free to explain though, I'm intrigued.

 

[McGuywer]

Lol,

Okay lets try:

I was wondering if it was in the design of earth and the universe that man would eventually let the universe fall apart or become unstable/unusable...
That it was designed to let man decide his own faith. Meaning that no matter what we did, we would have had to start/contribute to global warming to evolve.
There was no way of stopping it, it was inevitable, in the design...

 

[w1z4rd]

Nice post copa. So 3% dont agree... thats not even enough to be classed as fringe. Funny thing is around 50% of the forumites here are too stupid to listen to those scientists and will pretend its a conspiracy by those scientists. Man, but South Africans lack any kinda decent scientific education. Its all rugby and woodwork all the way

 

[murraybiscuit]

I was wondering if it was in the design of earth and the universe that man would eventually let the universe fall apart or become unstable/unusable...

the assumption here is that the earth was designed...

That it was designed to let man decide his own faith.

ironic malapropism

 

[copacetic]

Lol,

Okay lets try:

I was wondering if it was in the design of earth and the universe that man would eventually let the universe fall apart or become unstable/unusable...
That it was designed to let man decide his own faith. Meaning that no matter what we did, we would have had to start/contribute to global warming to evolve.
There was no way of stopping it, it was inevitable, in the design...

Aaah. This sounds like a matter for PD.

Nice post copa. So 3% dont agree... thats not even enough to be classed as fringe. Funny thing is around 50% of the forumites here are too stupid to listen to those scientists and will pretend its a conspiracy by those scientists. Man, but South Africans lack any kinda decent scientific education. Its all rugby and woodwork all the way

Rugby and woodwork, made me lol.

 

[murraybiscuit]

Nice post copa. So 3% dont agree... thats not even enough to be classed as fringe. Funny thing is around 50% of the forumites here are too stupid to listen to those scientists and will pretend its a conspiracy by those scientists. Man, but South Africans lack any kinda decent scientific education. Its all rugby and woodwork all the way

the problem as usual is that the loudest voices on the topic are generally in the minority.
i don't even follow the topic and i have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff.
i'm happy to defer to consensus, so i guess that's where articles like the o.p. help.

 

[copacetic]

the problem as usual is that the loudest voices on the topic are generally in the minority.
i don't even follow the topic and i have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff.
i'm happy to defer to consensus, so i guess that's where articles like the o.p. help.

It's not something I really follow either, for the reason that it has struck me as fairly absurd to pretend it isn't so, it's just always seemed a fairly obvious truth. 97% of scientists agree.

 

[w1z4rd]

the problem as usual is that the loudest voices on the topic are generally in the minority.
i don't even follow the topic and i have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff.
i'm happy to defer to consensus, so i guess that's where articles like the o.p. help.

Good stuff, its great to find people that actually listen to those very intelligent scientists. Though I am not sure you represent the average here. The average person here has watched Myth Busters on Discovery and now think they know more about climate science than climate scientists.

 

[HapticSimian]

Cue people (Hi Alan) moaning that they obviously asked the wrong scientists in 3... 2...

 

[spiff]

Nice post copa. So 3% dont agree... thats not even enough to be classed as fringe. Funny thing is around 50% of the forumites here are too stupid to listen to those scientists and will pretend its a conspiracy by those scientists. Man, but South Africans lack any kinda decent scientific education. Its all rugby and woodwork all the way

100%

I don't actually give a shyte who or what is causing it, only ignorant morons will sit and point fingers at each other - the fact is the polar caps r melting!!! and the scientist keep having to revise their calculations cause it's melting faster than they thought and the scientist have calculated that if both ice caps melt completely then global sea levels will rise 60m that means coastal regions world wide will be devastated!! Cape Town / Cape flats will no longer exist!!

the other major concern is when colossal chunks of ice fall off into the sea causing tsunami's? we all know what devastation a tsunami can cause! Do u think CT will cope with a tsunami like the 2004 tsunami??

and what about the weight of billions of tons of ice on the land underneath the south pole? scientist know that when the ground rebounds it causes earthquakes which can cause tsunami's?

but hey the cool thing is I may not be around in 50yrs to experience it, but you laaities will be - so enjoy the devastation

 

[copacetic]

I've got a global warming denialist documentary:

The Great Global Warming Swindle.

It's pretty compelling, on the surface of it. That's the danger of information, just about anything can be wrapped up in a slick package.

 

[BCO]

Nice post copa. So 3% dont agree... thats not even enough to be classed as fringe. Funny thing is around 50% of the forumites here are too stupid to listen to those scientists and will pretend its a conspiracy by those scientists. Man, but South Africans lack any kinda decent scientific education. Its all rugby and woodwork all the way

It's not even that 3% disagree, it's that 3% are agnostic on the issue. So less than 3% outright disagree.