I read that but also a slew of other reports that state this is normal and that these warming an cooling trends have happened before as seen in ice cores. Many other researchers are claiming to detect thickening of the main body (Arctic and glacial) while the thinner edges melt, also determinable by the same research that claims global warming to have previously occured. Also the Antarctic ice is reported to be growing and that the total overall loss of ice is in fact minimal when all data is taken into consideration. Who am I to believe?
Find out everything you can. Be wary of any information that makes a prediction with a call to action. That is the marker of a political opinion piece. Always seek the proof of the causal connection between the CO2 rise and the temperature increase. The connection is always implied and never proven.
Now that is an outright lie. The causal effect of CO2 as a GHG was proven by Tyndal in 1858 when he established the absorbtion spectrum of CO2.
Establish a context for information. Understand what is being said and parse everything. Check the born on date for any report and fact check every tid bit you come across.
Yes, of course. And remember, James Watt has never published a peer reviewed article on global warming. And that 99% of all peer reviewed articles on global warming not only state that it does exist, but the primary cause in the burning of fossil fuels by man.
If you're like me, you became interested in this because you were concerned that man kind was destroying the planet. The more I find out about this, the less likely that appears to be. Well, at least from a changing the climate with CO2 standpoint.
Of course the fact that real physicists completely disagree with you has absolutely no bearing on the debate.
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
Not only this, but the geophysicists have well established the corelations of the past climate rapid warming periods with CO2
You may want to start your consideration with two facts:
1. CO2 has RISEN to the level of 0.04% of the atmosphere. 400 ppm. Water Vapor, another Green House Gas is 5.0% of the atmosphere. 50,000 ppm. You may arrive the relative temperature forcing capabilities on your own.
You may repeat that spin forever, and it will still be lying spin.
Water vapor has a residence period in the atmosphere of less than 10 days. CO2, 200 years.
Increase the CO2 in the atmosphere, the atmosphere gets warmer, and more water is evaporated into the atmosphere, creating even more heating. It is called a positive feedback.
2. The total temperature rise Globally across the last 2000 years has been 0.7 degrees. The rate of increase for the most recent 1000 years is slower than the rate of increase for the previous 1000 years.
Yet at no time in the last 1000 years have we seen the effects in the Arctic that we are seeing today.
At no time in the last 1000 years have we been in danger of losing all of our glaciers.
At no time in the last 15 million years has the CO2 and CH4 levels been as high as they are today.
What we are seeing happening today, is the effect of GHGs in the atmosphere 30 to 50 years ago, there is that much inertia in the atmosphere.
This is a fun debate and has nothing to do with religion, natural origin or, if you're a member of the IPCC, facts of any type. Have at it.
