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I've been a nuclear fan ever since Global Cooling was the scientific consensus. I already use indirect nuclear (fission) to power the house.Glad you finally catching on
Nice! I see what you did there!I've been a nuclear fan ever since Global Cooling was the scientific consensus. I already use indirect nuclear (fission) to power the house.Glad you finally catching on
You labour under a misapprehension.Glad you finally [-]catching on[/-] understanding CO2 is causing heating
You labour under a misapprehension.
CO2 does not cause heating.
This is false. It is not true. It is fallacious.
It does not comport with reality.
Oh, a CO2 blanket can trap heat from other sources. This is well-established.
But it certainly doesn't cause heating. And I've never thought so.
What an odd notion, really!
Huge improvement. Congrats.
Revisionist history.
Found this great article on common lies / mistruths the climate change denialists use to in their argument. We see them here so often I thought I would share. Ill share 10 here, and link to the rest of the 119.
1.) "Its the Sun" (killadoob) - In the last 35 years of global warming, sun and climate have been going in opposite directions
2.) “Climate’s changed before” (many forumites) - Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.
3.) “It’s cooling” (Arthur) - The last decade was the hotted on record.
4.) “Ice age predicted in the 70s” (Alan) - The vast majority of climate papers in the 1970s predicted warming.
5.) “Antarctica is gaining ice” (techne) - Satellites measure Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.
6.) “Al Gore got it wrong” (any conservative) - Al Gore's film was "broadly accurate" according to an expert witness called when an attempt was made through the courts to prevent the film being shown in schools.
7.) “It’s just a natural cycle” (Pitbull) - Ancient natural cycles are irrelevant for attributing recent global warming to humans.
8.) “Climategate CRU emails suggest conspiracy” (Chris) - Several investigations have cleared the scientists of any wrong doing.
9.) “Volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans” (Arthur) - Humans emit 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes.
10.) “The science isn’t settled” (multiple) - That human CO2 is causing global warming is known with high certainty & confirmed by observations.
There are 119 common mistruths and disinformation at this link: http://planetsave.com/2010/08/13/119-one-liners-to-respond-to-climate-science-myths/
People are ganna be loving me in this threadInformation is important though.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htmIn the thirty years leading up to the 1970s, available temperature recordings suggested that there was a cooling trend. As a result some scientists suggested that the current inter-glacial period could rapidly draw to a close, which might result in the Earth plunging into a new ice age over the next few centuries. This idea could have been reinforced by the knowledge that the smog that climatologists call ‘aerosols’ – emitted by human activities into the atmosphere – also caused cooling. In fact, as temperature recording has improved in coverage, it’s become apparent that the cooling trend was most pronounced in northern land areas and that global temperature trends were in fact relatively steady during the period prior to 1970.
At the same time as some scientists were suggesting we might be facing another ice age, a greater number published contradicting studies. Their papers showed that the growing amount of greenhouse gasses that humans were putting into the atmosphere would cause much greater warming – warming that would a much greater influence on global temperature than any possible natural or human-caused cooling effects.
By 1980 the predictions about ice ages had ceased, due to the overwhelming evidence contained in an increasing number of reports that warned of global warming. Unfortunately, the small number of predictions of an ice age appeared to be much more interesting than those of global warming, so it was those sensational 'Ice Age' stories in the press that so many people tend to remember.
The fact is that around 1970 there were 6 times as many scientists predicting a warming rather than a cooling planet. Today, with 30+years more data to analyse, we've reached a clear scientific consensus: 97% of working climate scientists agree with the view that human beings are causing global warming.
