Global Warming Science "Not Valid"

[Old Rocks]

As in accepting the evidence that thousands of scientists worldwide have gathered over the mumblings of someone with no qualifications, no record of research in the subject? If you consider that an appeal to authority, yes, I present those that are known authorities in the discipline, as opposed to those with no credentials at all.

Thousands of scientists? A bunch of sociologists, political scientists and other government hacks....

So you too are a lying ignorant whack job. OK. You brand yourselves.

Every Scientfic Society, every National Academy of Science, and every major University has policy statements that AGW is real, and a clear and present danger. I can once again post statements from the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, and the Meteorlogical Society of America. And then go on to post them from the Royal Society, the American Chemical Society. And tens of other Scientfic Societies from all the nations around the world.

 

[skookerasbil]

The only thing that matters is if people think it is valid or not.

They don't.

 

[RollingThunder]

John Coleman is an 80 year old retired TV weatherman. He has no education or training in any aspect of climate science. He received a degree in journalism in 1957 at the University of Illinois after working for three years at the student run campus radio station doing the early evening weather forecast and a local bandstand show called At The Hop. He became a successful TV weather reader, winding up on 'Good Morning America'. He and a Chicago meteorologist persuaded Landmark Communications to start a 24 hour cable weather channel, which debuted in 1983 as The Weather Channel, with Coleman serving as CEO and President during the start-up and first year of operations. He lost millions of dollars and alienated the staff so Landmark fired him in 1984. Coleman went on to a career in weather reading on TV stations until his retirement. He has no particular qualifications whatsoever to pontificate on climate science.

The cult of AGW denial has latched onto the ignorant ravings of this two-bit crank as if he were an expert, citing his 30 year old, 1 year long, failed involvement with the Weather Channel as a supposed 'credential' and proof that he must know what he's talking about. LOL. Some of the denier cult articles being cited even have headlines like "Weather Channel: Efforts To Prove Global Warming Have ‘FAILED’", falsely implying that those bogus claims originated with the Weather Channel.

Here is what the Weather Channel actually says about AGW.

Global Warming: The Weather Channel Position Statement
weather.com
Oct 29th, 2014

The scientific issue of global warming can be broken down into three main questions: Is global warming a reality? Are human activities causing it? What are the prospects for the future?

Warming: Fact or Fiction?

The climate of the earth is indeed warming, with an increase of approximately 1 - 1 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century, more than half of that occurring since the 1970s. The warming has taken place as averaged globally and annually; significant regional and seasonal variations exist.

Impacts can already be seen, especially in the Arctic, with melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and rapid retreat and thinning of sea ice, all of which are affecting human populations as well as animals and vegetation. There and elsewhere, rising sea level is increasing coastal vulnerability.

There is evidence in recent years of a direct linkage between the larger-scale warming and shorter-term phenomena such as heat waves and precipitation extremes. The jury is out on exactly what effects global warming is having or will have upon tropical cyclones or tornadoes.

Human Influence

To what extent the current warming is due to human activity is complicated because large and sometimes sudden climate changes have occurred throughout our planet's history -- most of them before humans could possibly have been a factor. Furthermore, the sun/atmosphere/land/ocean "climate system" is extraordinarily complex, and natural variability on time scales from seconds to decades and beyond is always occurring.

However, it is known that burning of fossil fuels injects additional carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This in turn increases the naturally occurring "greenhouse effect," a process in which our atmosphere keeps the earth's surface much warmer than it would otherwise be.

More than a century's worth of detailed climate observations shows a sharp increase in both carbon dioxide and temperature. These observations, together with computer model simulations and historical climate reconstructions from ice cores, ocean sediments and tree rings all provide strong evidence that the majority of the warming over the past century is a result of human activities. This is also the conclusion drawn, nearly unanimously, by climate scientists.

Humans are also changing the climate on a more localized level. The replacement of vegetation by buildings and roads is causing temperature increases through what's known as the urban heat island effect. In addition, land use changes are affecting impacts from weather phenomena. For example, urbanization and deforestation can cause an increased tendency for flash floods and mudslides from heavy rain. Deforestation also produces a climate change "feedback" by depleting a source which absorbs carbon dioxide.

The Future

Potential outcomes range from moderate and manageable to extreme and catastrophic, depending on a number of factors including location and type of effect, and amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Not every location and its inhabitants will be affected equally, but the more the planet warms, the fewer "winners" and the more "losers" there will be as a result of the changes in climate. The potential exists for the climate to reach a "tipping point," if it hasn't already done so, beyond which radical and irreversible changes occur.

The bottom line is that with the rate of greenhouse gas emissions increasing, a significant warming trend is expected to also continue. This warming will manifest itself in a variety of ways, and shifts in climate could occur quickly, so while society needs to continue to wrestle with the difficult issues involved with mitigation of the causes of global warming, an increased focus should be placed on resiliency and adaptation to the effects of global warming given the sensitivity of civilizations and ecosystems to rapid climate change.

Copyright: The Weather Channel. All rights reserved.

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)

 

[Old Rocks]

Longknife, I am dissappointed in you. You failed to do basic research. Coleman actually has less academic qualifications than I do to discuss global warming. You have posted many interesting OP;s on scientific subjects, yet you failed to do minimal research concerning Coleman's qualifications to comment on the science behind global warming.

Every Scientific Society, every National Academy of Science, and every major University has policy statements that AGW is real, and that it is a clear and present danger. So, are you claiming that all of these scientists from all the nations and political systems in the world are in on a grand conspiracy to fool the all of us?

I guess being dumb as a rock would make you less than capable of any cognitive thought process.. Yet you tell others not to listen to people who have worked in the filed their whole lives.... You truly are a moron.

Liar Billy Boob, Coleman has never worked in the field. He reported what meteologists employed by the government stated concerning weather. He is not a scientist, he has zero publications in any scientfic journal, he is less qualified than I am to comment in the are of climate science.

There's actually a simple solution, just present the experiment that shows that 120 PPM of CO2 increases temperature.

Here, disprove this in other words:

Just Crazy, what the hell are you talking about? Rate of photosynthesis compared to the increase in CO2 concentration has zero to do with global warming.