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I just finished reading a post in which Abraham responded to a comment by posting a graph. After realizing the person he was talking to was taking visual cues from a picture and ignoring the information in the graph...
So why is CO2 increasing?Do you know what happens when the ice & glaciers melts?
It produces more plants.
What does plants breath in? CO2
Seems that the Earth knows what she is doing.
First: HELLO LOA! Wish you the best of luck, here. It's a bit of a rough crowd.
The greenhouse effect has been demonstrated in labs a multitude of times. The absorption spectra, determined in vitro, of the various gases involved are available in reference works of all shape and size. The continued diatribe that it has never been proven in the lab begins to make me nauseous. Screaming something over and over again does not make it so.
The global temperature trend from 1941 to 1979 could very well convince someone that we were headed for an ice age. However, that opinion was NEVER widespread among climate scientists. As you noted, it was THE MEDIA that told you so: media that makes money with scandal and tittilation. But it is NOT just the media telling you about global warming these days. Unlike the 1970s ice age nonsense, a significant majority of climate scientists believe that the warming we have experienced over the last 150 years has been primarily caused by human GHG emissions.
It is ridiculous to claim that any particular weather event is the result of global warming. It is equally ridicuous to claim that global warming will have no effect on our weather. Our weather is driven - ENTIRELY - by its thermal energy content. As that content increases, the energy available to drive our weather increases and the average intensity of the weather so driven follows it upward. Rejecting that is completely unsupportable.
Bjorn Lomborg's training is in political science. His opinion on any relationship between warming and weather extremes is worthless. That it should see the light of day in "Right Wing News" only supports my PoV here.
Loa makes a very good point when she notes that many climate change deniers are driven by a fear of loss or major alterations in the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed. I'd say a far broader and better supported case could be made for that than for the common charge that AGW is a hoax perpetrated by climate scientists looking to get rich from research grant money.
Rough crowd: Asking for lab experiments
LOL
That why there's no science in Climate "Science"
So why is CO2 increasing?[/QUOTE]Do you know what happens when the ice & glaciers melts?
It produces more plants.
What does plants breath in? CO2
Seems that the Earth knows what she is doing.
Not according the the Scientist's at the University of Bristol in England. They say CO2 has not increased dramatically.
I say we need to replant the rain forests. Especially the one in the Amazon.
I don't think that it is the burning of fossil fuels.
I think we should focus on more planting more plants and trees.
When did climate change start really accelerating?
In the 70's.
What happened in the 70's?
During the 1970s, deforestation rates accelerated to clear land for cattle, to increase subsistence agriculture as well as for commercial agriculture, and for infrastructural improvements.
When you have been lied to the first time about the climate becoming an ice age in the 70's then changed to warming you tend not to believe them.
They also are not addressing why so many planets in our solar system climates are changing also.
It seems to be tied to something that is happening to our Solar System not mankind's pollution.
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The Denialist dolts are criminally ignorant of science, and they cannot bear to think of their beliefs and way of life being challenged.
They would not recognize a fact if it fell on them ... like an iceberg.
And Global Heating is a fact.
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I just finished reading a post in which Abraham responded to a comment by posting a graph. After realizing the person he was talking to was taking visual cues from a picture and ignoring the information in the graph, I started thinking about why people deny climate change.
Tim Prosser wrote an interesting article on the subject and it came down to just a few ideas:
One is that many people who deny global warming do not have a science background. Therefore, they find themselves in a bind when dealing with the materials explaining the issue.
Additionally, climate change discussion has become so politicized and misinformation so regularly injected by those with incentive to do so that the conversation is overwhelming for many people to sort through.
And last but not least, I think the prospect of declining living standards creates an emotional response in people that in many ways shares the stages of grief. People are emotionally attached to lifestyles and it is VERY difficult to accept data that may point toward new behaviors.
K.
Large rise in CO2 emissions sounds climate change alarm | Environment | The GuardianSo why is CO2 increasing?Do you know what happens when the ice & glaciers melts?
It produces more plants.
What does plants breath in? CO2
Seems that the Earth knows what she is doing.
Not according the the Scientist's at the University of Bristol in England. They say CO2 has not increased dramatically.
I say we need to replant the rain forests. Especially the one in the Amazon.
I don't think that it is the burning of fossil fuels.
I think we should focus on more planting more plants and trees.
When did climate change start really accelerating?
In the 70's.
What happened in the 70's?
During the 1970s, deforestation rates accelerated to clear land for cattle, to increase subsistence agriculture as well as for commercial agriculture, and for infrastructural improvements.
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The Denialist dolts are criminally ignorant of science, and they cannot bear to think of their beliefs and way of life being challenged.
They would not recognize a fact if it fell on them ... like an iceberg.
And Global Heating is a fact.
.
Do you know what happens when the ice & glaciers melts?
It produces more plants.
What does plants breath in? CO2
Seems that the Earth knows what she is doing.
And a couple degrees here or there won't matter much.
Don't worry we're not all gonna die.
