If someone starts screaming about politics when the topic of AGW comes up, you know that person is a cultist. Denialists almost always instantly shift the topic to politics. They have to, as the science doesn't agree with them. While there will be a few econuts raving about political conspiracies, they're very few compared to the vast numbers of denialists raving about political conspiracies.
Satellite measurements of energy flux don't lie. More energy comes in than goes out. We see the outward IR flux squeezing down around the CO2 absorption bands. That would be why the basic theory is settled science. It's no longer possible for a rational person to deny warming is occurring and humans are causing it. At this point, the discussion -- at least by non-cultists -- has moved to what local effects will be, the specific magnitudes, and what do to about it.
However, to the denialist cult, hard evidence simply shows how the laws of physics are part of some vast socialist conspiracy. This struggle isn't so much about science anymore. It's about western rationality, about science and logic (the AGW side) facing off against ancient emotionalism and superstition (the denialists).
Seriously? Who was it that brought global warming to the forefront? Who was it that co-launched a company just before that to sell carbon credits? And who doesn't live by the screed it which he professes but does profit?
Al Gore, the world's first carbon billionaire? - DailyFinance
OK, dumb ****.
The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
now, now, getting testy are we?
Care to explain what happened to the ice age that was coming in the 70's proclaimed by many reknowned scientists?
I will copy my post in another thread here for you-
(oh, and by the way, if you have followed my postings you would know I do believe in climate change, just as it has occurred for thousands of years and my question is why we don't study how to adapt for when the extremes happen, whether within our lifetime or in another thousands of years, rather than try to stop something that will inevitably happen no matter what we do. Seems alot more reasonable use of all these dollars than to line pockets, etc. for what will not in anyway stop what will ever happen)
1971- commentaried in Time Magazine- Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Cl
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate
Abstract
Effects on the global temperature of large increases in carbon dioxide and aerosol densities in the atmosphere of Earth have been computed. It is found that, although the addition of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does increase the surface temperature, the rate of temperature increase diminishes with increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. For aerosols, however, the net effect of increase in density is to reduce the surface temperature of Earth. Because of the exponential dependence of the backscattering, the rate of temperature decrease is augmented with increasing aerosol content. An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5 degrees K. If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease over the whole globe is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age.
S I Rasool - NASA Scientist, AMS
They also authored this paper in 72 -
Aerosol concentrations: effect on planetary temperat... [Science. 1972] - PubMed - NCBI
The authors -
Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
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Newsweek Magazine even used the climate “tipping point” argument in 1975. Newsweek wrote April 28, 1975 article: "The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."
But on October 24, 2006, Newsweek admitted it erred in predicting a coming ice age in the 1970's. (NYT: Obama's global warming promoting science czar Holdren 'warned of a coming ice age' in 1971 – September 29, 2009 & also see: NASA warned of human caused coming 'ice age' in 1971 – Washington Times – September 19, 2007 and also see: 1975 New York Times: "Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing, Major Cooling May Be Ahead", May 21, 1975 and see: 1974 Time Magazine: "Another Ice Age," June 24, 1974
National Academy of Sciences Issued Report Warning of Coming Ice Age in 1975
Excerpt: “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.” - Newsweek - April 28, 1975 “The Cooling World”
NASA warned of human caused coming 'ice age' in 1971 – Washington Times – September 19, 2007
Excerpt: “The world "could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts,” read a July 9, 1971 Washington Post article. NASA scientist S.I. Rasool, a colleague of James Hansen, made the predictions. The 1971 article continues: "In the next 50 years" — or by 2021 — fossil-fuel dust injected by man into the atmosphere "could screen out so much sunlight that the average temperature could drop by six degrees," resulting in a buildup of "new glaciers that could eventually cover huge areas." If sustained over "several years, five to 10," or so Mr. Rasool estimated, "such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age."
New York Times: Obama's global warming promoting science czar Holdren 'warned of a coming ice age' in 1971 – September 29, 2009 – By John Tierney – Excerpt: In the 1971 essay, “Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide,” Dr. Holdren and his co-author, the ecologist Paul Ehrlich, warned of a coming ice age. They certainly weren't the only scientists in the 1970s to warn of a coming ice age, but I can't think of any others who were so creative in their catastrophizing. Although they noted that the greenhouse effect from rising emissions of carbon dioxide emissions could cause future warming of the planet, they concluded from the mid-century cooling trend that the consequences of human activities (like industrial soot, dust from farms, jet exhaust, urbanization and deforestation) were more likely to first cause an ice age.