I can never figure out why the Alarmists are so sure that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
I can never figure out why deniers are so sure they're right.
#1, you're not. Everything science has predicted would happen, is happening.
#2, balance the consequences if you're wrong vs. the consequences if the whole world and decades of research is wrong.
There's something narcissistic about denial. It's almost as though you think there's something 'Cool,' or patriotic, or tough about being a denier.
Your point 1 is simply wrong. Dr. Hansen created three predictions based on three scenarios. The predictions were for the temperature changes linked to the CO2 changes. The temperature has followed a path that is almost exactly in keeping with the historically expected upward trend based on nothing more than the average increases recorded over the preceeding years.
Dr. Hansen produced a scenario in which the CO2 production would be almost exactly what it actually has been. His prediction was for vastly accelerated temperature increase.
He also produced a scenario for marginally decreased CO2 Production. His prediction in this scenario was for a less accelerated temperature increase.
The actual temperature increase over the 30 years following his predictions was lower than all of his scenarios and the actual CO2 increase was almost perfectly constant.
To say that everything that science has predicted has happened is to ignor the science, the predictions and the results.
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