oldsoul
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Interesting. I am still not convinced though. There was no mention of the myriad of other variables such as, but not limited to:http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/Economics 7004/The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect.pdfNow, I am confused. How does change in GHGs 30-50 years ago affect our climate, and therefore weather, today? You state that there is an increase in severity and quantity of weather events. So where was the energy for these stored? What evidence, as in links, do you have to substantiate your claims?OK, you pose and interesting question. It is not just the numbers for the GHGs that are a problem, but the rate of change. A rapid delta v does not give the biology of this planet time to adapt. That is why we see extinction events in prior times when there were rapid changes in the GHGs, both up and down.I will put aside your lack common decentcy for a moment and ask you what should be a simple question, and please refrain from name calling and other means of trying to demean people who disagree with you.How arrogant of someone to state that mankind can have a significant long term effect on global climate. Are they really saying that we are more powerful than "Mother Earth"?
No. That's your loopy strawman. It's also a dumb statement because it's meaningless, unless you define "more powerful" and "Mother Earth" precisely. That is, it's fuzzy feelgood nonsense.
Just some food for thought, if you are still willing to THINK CRITICALLY, and have the ability.
You failed at thinking critically. You're relying on the logical fallacy "climate has changed naturally, therefore humans can't change climate". By that same bad logic, it's impossible for humans to cause forest fires, since forest fires used to always be natural.
Rest assured that all the scientists and rational people recognize how bad your logic is.
Yup! In spades, dumbshit. You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground....as you make very obvious.Really? "Strawman"? "Bad Logic"?
What, pray tell, does "science" have that proves that "climate change" is more that a normal phase of cyclical climate change? How do they "know" that the change is not normal? Has earth not had this type of climate change before? Think about it, everything in climate changes, always has, what proves that the current change is caused by mankind? As far as I know there are a bunch of theories, but nothing that has been PROVEN. There are symptoms that have been proven to be linked to climate change, there have been causes that have been linked to both climate change and Mankind, but NOTHING PROVES the theory of man-made climate change. That is why it is still no more than a THEORY!
Ignorant clueless bullshit, bozo.
If you haven't seen the evidence confirming the reality of human caused global warming and its consequent climate disruptions and abrupt changes, then you have been deliberately closing your eyes to it because of your crackpot rightwingnut political and economic ideologies.
Pull your head out of your ass and look around, oldfart.
Here is about the ten thousandth scientific study confirming human caused global warming, numbnuts.
New evidence confirms human activities drive global warming
PhysOrg
February 22, 2016
If "Man-made Climate Change" is, indeed, a reality, what are the levels of CO2, CO, and other "greenhouse gasses" that would be acceptable? What levels should these gasses be at? Where would they be if man-kind had not "altered" them?
I anxiously await your numbers.
Now, with over 7 billion mouths to feed, our agriculture is even more vulnerable to a rapid changing climate than the natural flora and fauna. Accurately, we don't know at what point that the change will become a danger to the survival of a great many people. The insurance companies in the world have already issued warnings that we are seeing more serious and extreme weather events. And the real kicker is that what we are seeing today is not the result of the GHGs in the atmosphere at present, but is the result of the GHGs in the atmosphere 30 to 50 years ago.
A final nail in the coffin of scientific skepticism came in 2005, when a team compiled accurate long-term measurements of temperatures in all the world's ocean basins. It was not in the air but the massive oceans, after all, that most of any heat added would soon wind up. Indeed natural fluctuations had kept air temperatures roughly the same since the late 1990s; the significant question was whether the oceans were continuing to warm. The team found that over many decades the planet's content of heat-energy had been rising, and was rising still (this continued after 2005 as well). There was only one remotely plausible source of the colossal addition of energy: the Earth must be taking in more energy from sunlight than it was radiating back into space. Simple physics calculated that to heat all that sea water required nearly an extra watt per square meter, averaged over the planet's entire surface, year after year. The number was just what the elaborate greenhouse effect computations had been predicting for decades. James Hansen, leader of one of the studies, called the visible increase of the planet's heat content a "smoking gun" proof of greenhouse effect warming (see graph below). Moreover, in each separate ocean basin there was a close match between the pattern of rising temperatures measured at each location and depth and detailed model calculations of where the greenhouse effect warming should appear. Warming from other sources, for example a change in the Sun's output, could not produce these patterns. Evidently the modelers were on the right track.(56)
Very simply, most of the heat goes into the ocean. And then the oceans warm the atmosphere. That is one source of the lag. Another is that it takes time to melt permafrost and ice. And the results of that melting are more GHGs in the atmosphere, and more warming of the polar waters.
The site, by the way, is a product of the American Institute of Physics, the largest scientific society on earth.
- Earth's non-constant orbit.
- Where the "original" increase of GHGs came from.
- Changes in Earth's mass.
- The effects of lunar orbit (i.e. it's constant slowing, and therefore coming closer and closer to Earth).
- Sources of energy not related to the sun.
- Other natural variable not, yet, explained by modern science.
At one time all natural disasters where thought to be the work of a deity of one type or another, until science discovered that to be false. What would science look like today if those discoveries had not been made simply because it was already decided what the causes where?