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Last year Greenland lost 28 square miles of what had been permanently ice-locked.
Maybe it means nothing.
Let's risk it all on that hope, shall we?
I was actually being sarcastic. I think we're heaaded for a lot of chaotic weather, and climate change deniers are helping us down a (possibly) avoidable path that only a few will enjoy.
Climate change prevaricator.
Sorry, David, you are wrong. We have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 39% since 1800. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at the highest level in 600,000 years which is as far back as the Antarctic ice core record goes back. The level of CO2 increase is accelerating as China and India industrialize. We are warming the planet, that is not in dispute. The only question is, How much?
Are there other factors involved? Of course. Could the sun trump global warming? Of course it could. We are currently in the down portion of the solar cycle and the Southern Oscillation, so we will see relatively cooler temps until the sun heats up again. But we are warming the earth. That cannot be disputed.
Global warming is a fact.
We are pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. CO2 causes the earth to retain heat. Therefore, we are warming the earth.
The only question is, How much?
My goodness, you are like the left wing version of Paperboy. I give you facts and statistics and you counter them with the most basic, irrelevant responses in the world.
Come on, I know there are a bunch of intelligent left-wing global warming believers on here. Jillian? Manifold? Anyone want to counter my argument with real facts and statistics instead of "it's true."
First of all, we had nothing to increase the CO2 levels in the atmosphere in 1800. Around 1850 we did. And in 1850, did we have anything to measure the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere? The answer is, no.
Now, see, I was all nice giving you facts and statistics and terms like positive and negative NAO (North Atlantic Oscilliation), PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation), the AO (Arctic Oscillation), the PNA (Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern), the MJO (Madden-Julian oscillation), La Nina (cooling of the Pacific) and El Nina (warming of the pacific). Where are your researched facts, Chris? Where are your studies and statistics that you've done yourself? Or are you listening to what the news is saying and not doing any research for yourself?
Learn, Chris. The Global Warming/Green fad is all about green... as in MONEY. They're trying to get us to spend money on this Green market, create Green Collar jobs, because in the end, it makes them moneyyyyyy. Do you really think Al Gore cares about the environment? He flys so often in his private jet, to and from places to make $200,000 speeches, he uses more emissions in a single day than any of us do in a year. He has the largest home in Tennessee and consumes the most energy... and none of the energy is green energy. He made tens of millions of dollars off of his movies and books all hoping the sheep will follow him. And little lemmings like you who don't do your own research will follow him and give him your money.
Me? I did my research. Global warming is a farce. There is nothing you or I could ever to or hope to do that will change the climate of this planet. It would be like a tiny microbe trying to build the empire state building.
I can't give you anymore pos-rep today so you'll have to settle for a round of applause.
But while I don't believe in man-made global warming, protecting the environment is still a laudable goal.
The Earth has been warming since 1910, with a temperature maximum reached in the 1990s. (The year 2001 is now the second warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.)
The scientific conclusion reached is that warming is real.
But is this warming man-made? Carbon dioxide has been rising since the time of James Watt (1736 1819), inventor of the auto-controlled steam engine that helped jump-start the industrial revolution. Since then, coal, oil and natural gas have powered our economies. Hydro-power and nuclear power are comparatively minor contributors to energy needs (excepting certain countries such as Norway and France).
Today the amount of carbon dumped globally into the atmosphere corresponds, on average, to one ton per person on the planet, each year. In the United States, carbon-based energy is especially important. The average American per capita emission is 5 tons of carbon annually. In Sweden (with a similar standard of living as the US) the carbon output is less than two tons of carbon per person per year.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas it traps heat radiation that is attempting to escape from Earth. The physics of this process was established by the Irish physicist John Tyndall (1820 1891) and the effect was calculated by Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius (1859 1927).
The basic argument (that is, that greenhouse gases keep the Earth comfortably warm) has never been challenged, and it follows that an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere undoubtedly produces a rise in temperature at ground level.
The Rise of CO2 & Warming
MYTH: Carbon Dioxide levels in our atmosphere at the moment are unprecedented (high).
FACT: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, currently only 350 parts per million have been over 18 times higher in the past at a time when cars, factories and power stations did not exist levels rise and fall without mankind's help.
MYTH Mankind is pumping out carbon dioxide at a prodigious rate.
FACT 96.5% of all carbon dioxide emissions are from natural sources, mankind is responsible for only 3.5%, with 0.6% coming from fuel to move vehicles, and about 1% from fuel to heat buildings. Yet vehicle fuel (petrol) is taxed at 300% while fuel to heat buildings is taxed at 5% even though buildings emit nearly twice as much carbon dioxide!
MYTH: Carbon dioxide changes in the atmosphere cause temperature changes on the earth.
FACT: A report in the journal 'Science' in January of this year showed using information from ice cores with high time resolution that since the last ice age, every time when the temperature and carbon dioxide levels have shifted, the carbon dioxide change happened AFTER the temperature change, so that man-made global warming theory has put effect before cause this shows that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is a futile King Canute exercise! What's more, both water vapor and methane are far more powerful greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide but they are ignored.