Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct

[Star]

"Recent events have caused speculation that the current Republican Party is anti-science.

For a nation that values its traditional science and technology edge over most of the rest of the world, it is somewhat astonishing that so many Republican politicians treat science as unproven theory or disregard it completely." ~ Ann McFeatters


Climate Change Deniers: First they said it isn't happening, then they said it was real but humans had nothing to do with it, then they said maybe it's natural warming or maybe it's caused by humans but we can't do anything about it, then they said it was real but...



Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct | NationofChange

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge. According to a recent poll, only two percent of Canadians reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming at alarming rates—a figure that may seem surprising given the volume of nonsense deniers (many of them funded by the fossil fuel industry) spread through letters to the editor, blogs, radio call-ins and website comments.

Polling indicates more deniers live in the U.S., but they still make up just 15 percent of that population.


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The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. We also know solutions lie in energy conservation, shifting to renewable sources, and changing our patterns of energy and fuel use, for example, by improving public transit and moving away from personal vehicles.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. The side benefits are numerous: less pollution and environmental destruction, better human health, stronger and more diversified economies, and a likely reduction in global conflicts fueled by the rapacious drive to exploit finite resources.

We can all work to reduce our individual impacts. But we must also convince our political and business leaders that it’s time to put people—especially our children, grandchildren and generations yet to come—before profits.

 

[RollingThunder]

"Recent events have caused speculation that the current Republican Party is anti-science.

For a nation that values its traditional science and technology edge over most of the rest of the world, it is somewhat astonishing that so many Republican politicians treat science as unproven theory or disregard it completely." ~ Ann McFeatters


Climate Change Deniers: First they said it isn't happening, then they said it was real but humans had nothing to do with it, then they said maybe it's natural warming or maybe it's caused by humans but we can't do anything about it, then they said it was real but...



Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct | NationofChange

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge. According to a recent poll, only two percent of Canadians reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming at alarming rates—a figure that may seem surprising given the volume of nonsense deniers (many of them funded by the fossil fuel industry) spread through letters to the editor, blogs, radio call-ins and website comments.

Polling indicates more deniers live in the U.S., but they still make up just 15 percent of that population.


✄snip>


The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. We also know solutions lie in energy conservation, shifting to renewable sources, and changing our patterns of energy and fuel use, for example, by improving public transit and moving away from personal vehicles.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. The side benefits are numerous: less pollution and environmental destruction, better human health, stronger and more diversified economies, and a likely reduction in global conflicts fueled by the rapacious drive to exploit finite resources.

We can all work to reduce our individual impacts. But we must also convince our political and business leaders that it’s time to put people—especially our children, grandchildren and generations yet to come—before profits.

The astro-turfed anti-science cult of AGW denial, sponsored by the fossil fuel industry and the oil billionaires, is fast sliding down the poop chute into the sewer pit of history, along with the Flat Earth Society, as temperatures soar and evidence of sudden climate changes becomes more and more unmistakable to the general public. You can only fool people with propaganda, smears and lies for so long when the evidence for AGW is so widespread and obvious. Only the brainwashed and retarded ideologues are still holding fast to the denier cult dogmas and myths these days.

 

[Katzndogz]

We have global warming every summer and global cooling every winter.

 

[Papageorgio]

"Recent events have caused speculation that the current Republican Party is anti-science.

For a nation that values its traditional science and technology edge over most of the rest of the world, it is somewhat astonishing that so many Republican politicians treat science as unproven theory or disregard it completely." ~ Ann McFeatters


Climate Change Deniers: First they said it isn't happening, then they said it was real but humans had nothing to do with it, then they said maybe it's natural warming or maybe it's caused by humans but we can't do anything about it, then they said it was real but...



Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct | NationofChange

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge. According to a recent poll, only two percent of Canadians reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming at alarming rates—a figure that may seem surprising given the volume of nonsense deniers (many of them funded by the fossil fuel industry) spread through letters to the editor, blogs, radio call-ins and website comments.

Polling indicates more deniers live in the U.S., but they still make up just 15 percent of that population.


✄snip>


The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. We also know solutions lie in energy conservation, shifting to renewable sources, and changing our patterns of energy and fuel use, for example, by improving public transit and moving away from personal vehicles.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. The side benefits are numerous: less pollution and environmental destruction, better human health, stronger and more diversified economies, and a likely reduction in global conflicts fueled by the rapacious drive to exploit finite resources.

We can all work to reduce our individual impacts. But we must also convince our political and business leaders that it’s time to put people—especially our children, grandchildren and generations yet to come—before profits.

Are you quoting an article or is this all your own thinking?

If it is an article, you are required to give a link.

If it is your own work, can we get a link to the polls you acquired your information from.

 

[RollingThunder]

We have global warming every summer and global cooling every winter.

I knew you were really retarded but are you really so retarded that you aren't aware that summer and winter are reversed in the southern hemisphere? Do you even understand the meaning of "global"?

 

[Star]

"Recent events have caused speculation that the current Republican Party is anti-science.

For a nation that values its traditional science and technology edge over most of the rest of the world, it is somewhat astonishing that so many Republican politicians treat science as unproven theory or disregard it completely." ~ Ann McFeatters


Climate Change Deniers: First they said it isn't happening, then they said it was real but humans had nothing to do with it, then they said maybe it's natural warming or maybe it's caused by humans but we can't do anything about it, then they said it was real but...



Climate Change Deniers are Almost Extinct | NationofChange

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge. According to a recent poll, only two percent of Canadians reject the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth is warming at alarming rates—a figure that may seem surprising given the volume of nonsense deniers (many of them funded by the fossil fuel industry) spread through letters to the editor, blogs, radio call-ins and website comments.

Polling indicates more deniers live in the U.S., but they still make up just 15 percent of that population.


✄snip>


The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. We also know solutions lie in energy conservation, shifting to renewable sources, and changing our patterns of energy and fuel use, for example, by improving public transit and moving away from personal vehicles.

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It’s too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. The side benefits are numerous: less pollution and environmental destruction, better human health, stronger and more diversified economies, and a likely reduction in global conflicts fueled by the rapacious drive to exploit finite resources.

We can all work to reduce our individual impacts. But we must also convince our political and business leaders that it’s time to put people—especially our children, grandchildren and generations yet to come—before profits.

Are you quoting an article or is this all your own thinking?

If it is an article, you are required to give a link.

If it is your own work, can we get a link to the polls you acquired your information from.

WTFU dude/dudette! -pewsh!-
.

 

[Papageorgio]

No links?

Okay, I understand and where you are coming from.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

AGW, it's not science, it's a cult

 

[Mad Scientist]

We have global warming every summer and global cooling every winter.

That's right. The Sun changes the climate almost on a daily basis!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

All we know for certain is that Americans are evil and need to be stopped from melting the polar ice caps. They can accomplish this by either: mass die off and/or fully implementing an 18th century agrarian economy (that's Progress for you)

 

[Star]

No links?

Okay, I understand and where you are coming from.

No link?
LOL - you understand? -- puhhhleeze!
2 funny -- R U stew-pid or is yer haed up yer azz?


I'd school you on how to find the/a link but it's more fun watching you make a fool of yourself.

Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation Poll. July 25-Aug. 5, 2012. N=3,130 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.​

"Do you think the federal government should or should not regulate the release of greenhouse gases from sources like power plants, cars and factories in an effort to reduce global warming?"​

Find results here.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No links?

Okay, I understand and where you are coming from.

No link?
LOL - you understand? -- puhhhleeze!
2 funny -- R U stew-pid or is yer haed up yer azz?


I'd school you on how to find the/a link but it's more fun watching you make a fool of yourself.

Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation Poll. July 25-Aug. 5, 2012. N=3,130 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.​

"Do you think the federal government should or should not regulate the release of greenhouse gases from sources like power plants, cars and factories in an effort to reduce global warming?"​

Find results here.

That's science?

Seriously?

 

[TakeAStepBack]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Do you think the mass of a particle approaches infinity as it approaches the speed of light?

Yes: 10.5%
No: 22.5%
WTF are you babbling about?: 64.5%
I voted for Obama-- Twice and I follow his tweets: 2.5%

 

[Douger]

All we know for certain is that Americans are evil and need to be stopped from melting the polar ice caps. They can accomplish this by either: mass die off and/or fully implementing an 18th century agrarian economy (that's Progress for you)

Frank FINALLY sees it my way !

 

[Star]

No links?

Okay, I understand and where you are coming from.

No link?
LOL - you understand? -- puhhhleeze!
2 funny -- R U stew-pid or is yer haed up yer azz?


I'd school you on how to find the/a link but it's more fun watching you make a fool of yourself.

Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation Poll. July 25-Aug. 5, 2012. N=3,130 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.​

"Do you think the federal government should or should not regulate the release of greenhouse gases from sources like power plants, cars and factories in an effort to reduce global warming?"​

Find results here.

That's science?

Seriously?

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? -- this thread is about how AGW deniers have manned up and admitted they were wrong. The 15% or so that continue to be duped tend to be old farts that are gullible enough to continue to believe the carbon industry's propaganda.





FRIDAY, Aug. 24, 2012 (HealthDay News) — Whether it's an email from an unknown gentleman on another continent pleading for money or a financial scammer selling a promising penny stock, the young and old tend to be more easily duped than middle-aged people.

 

[flacaltenn]

Hey Star::

Are you aware that increasing numbers of scientists are pointing to a HUGE probability of Global Cooling due to natural cooling via Sunspot activity within the next 12 years or so??

Are YOU aware of that? And if so -- are you PLEASED or dissapointed that the amount of cooling will be mitigated by warming that YOU THINK is caused solely by CO2 emissions? The best estimates are that the events of the next couple decades will be "a statistical wash" between natural cooling and "man-made" Global Warming?

PERHAPS those mean nasty Carbon dudes are saving your frigid ass from fracturing in the cold..

Anyway -- long term prognosis for making political hay out of this is ALMOST THE "F" Over.. When NATURAL CYCLICAL causes can wipe out all that hooting and hollowering that your minions have done to us for the past 20 years.

 

[Old Rocks]

Hey Star::

Are you aware that increasing numbers of scientists are pointing to a HUGE probability of Global Cooling due to natural cooling via Sunspot activity within the next 12 years or so??

Are YOU aware of that? And if so -- are you PLEASED or dissapointed that the amount of cooling will be mitigated by warming that YOU THINK is caused solely by CO2 emissions? The best estimates are that the events of the next couple decades will be "a statistical wash" between natural cooling and "man-made" Global Warming?

PERHAPS those mean nasty Carbon dudes are saving your frigid ass from fracturing in the cold..

Anyway -- long term prognosis for making political hay out of this is ALMOST THE "F" Over.. When NATURAL CYCLICAL causes can wipe out all that hooting and hollowering that your minions have done to us for the past 20 years.

Links? To peer reviewed articles, not nonsense from fruitcakes like you.

 

[emptystep]

Wow! 21% don't think we should regulate greenhouse gas emisions. Then again they might not even understand what 'greenhouse gasses' are. They problably like to troll message boards though.

 

[RollingThunder]

Hey Star::

Are you aware that increasing numbers of scientists are pointing to a HUGE probability of Global Cooling due to natural cooling via Sunspot activity within the next 12 years or so??

Nobody but the insane are aware of that because it is not true, you poor delusional moron. It is not only not true, it is simply meaningless nonsense. "Natural cooling via Sunspot activity"???? Increased sunspot activity signals a solar maximum and more heat, not less. LOLOLOLOLOLOL......you are such a retard!!!

Are YOU aware of that? And if so -- are you PLEASED or dissapointed that the amount of cooling will be mitigated by warming that YOU THINK is caused solely by CO2 emissions? The best estimates are that the events of the next couple decades will be "a statistical wash" between natural cooling and "man-made" Global Warming?

The "best estimates" of who exactly??? Your body lice maybe? Fossil fuel industry stooges? 'Cause it is certainly not what the real climate scientists are predicting for the temperature/climate changes in "the next couple decades".

Study: Thawing permafrost will worsen global warming
By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
USA Today
11/30/2011
(excerpts)

WASHINGTON – Massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped below thawing permafrost will likely seep into the air over the next several decades, accelerating and amplifying global warming, scientists warn. The permafrost scientists predict that over the next three decades, a total of about 45 billion metric tons of carbon from methane and carbon dioxide will seep into the atmosphere when permafrost thaws during summers. That's about the same amount of heat-trapping gas the world spews during five years of burning coal, gas and other fossil fuels. And the picture is even more alarming for the end of the century. The scientists calculate that about than 300 billion metric tons of carbon will belch from the thawing Earth from now until 2100.

Adding in that gas means that warming would happen "20 to 30 percent faster than from fossil fuel emissions alone," said Edward Schuur of the University of Florida. "You are significantly speeding things up by releasing this carbon." Usually the first few to several inches of permafrost thaw in the summer, but scientists are now looking at up to 10 feet of soft unfrozen ground because of warmer temperatures, he said. The gases come from decaying plants that have been stuck below frozen ground for millennia. Schuur and 40 other scientists in the Permafrost Carbon Research Network met this summer and jointly wrote up their findings, which were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. "The survey provides an important warning that global climate warming is likely to be worse than expected," said Jay Zwally, a NASA polar scientist who was not part of the study. "Arctic permafrost has been like a wild card."

Schuur and others said increasing amounts of greenhouse gas are seeping out of permafrost each year. Some is methane, which is 25 times stronger than carbon dioxide in trapping heat. In a recent video, University of Alaska Fairbanks professor Katey Walter Anthony, a study co-author, is shown setting leaking methane gas on fire with flames shooting far above her head. "Places like that are all around," Anthony said in a phone interview. "We're tapping into old carbon that has been locked up in the ground for 30,000 to 40,000 years." That triggers what Anthony and other scientists call a feedback cycle. The world warms, mostly because of human-made greenhouse gases. That thaws permafrost, releasing more natural greenhouse gas, augmenting the warming.