Why Science Accepts Anthropogenic Global Warming and Tells Us We Need to Act

[EMH]

He is a politician ... jealous much? ... you're young, run for town council ... help with the school board ...

Have you seen Obama's new house ... on only $246,424 per year retirement pay ... that could be you in 50 years ...

Just you wait.

Pam Bondi may see their fates a bit differently than you.... especially homO.

 

[skookerasbil]

If the Earth had no atmosphere, the planet's average temperature would be 58F (32C) cooler. Adding back just the oxygen and nitrogen would have almost NO effect on the temperature. That 58F of warming is due almost ENTIRELY to the greenhouse effect acting on two components of our atmosphere. About two-thirds is due to water vapor and one-third to carbon dioxide (CO2). The other components having greenhouse effects are methane, nitrous oxide, chloro- and hydrofluorocarbons.

The Earth began warming with the advent of the Industrial Revolution when the use of steam engines and then internal combustion engines grew rapidly, all fueled with hydrocarbon fossil fuels. The Earth is now warming at a historically extreme rate; twenty five times as rapidly as the Earth moved from glacial to interglacial states over the last 3 million years. That warming has been studied extensively for decades by scientists all over the planet. Their near-universal conclusion is that the primary cause of that warming is the greenhouse effect acting on CO2 emitted by humans burning fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas) for energy and transportation.

Up until the invention of the steam engine, CO2 in our atmosphere stayed in the range of 280 - 300 ppm for almost 3 million years. It is now just breaching 420 ppm, a 50% increase in the gas responsible for one-third of all greenhouse warming. That warming is reinforced by positive feedback from increased humidity in the Earth's atmosphere; water vapor is the most effective greenhouse gas but as a precipitable component of the atmosphere, changes only in response to temperature changes brought about by other agents. Atmospheric CO2 levels are also increased by deforestation and the thawing of frozen tundra.

The warming has numerous effects, many of which are harmful. Aside from its impact on all life forms via more frequent and more intense heat waves, we are experiencing sea level rise and increased ice melt. The energy that drives weather comes from the sun via the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. As global warming increases the energy available for weather, the average intensity of weather will increase. Increased temperatures are causing glaciers and snowpack to disappear. That decreases the Earth's albedo, decreasing the amount of solar radiation reflected back to space and providing more positive feedback. Increased meltwater from the poles is reducing the density of water there and thus the drive for the overturning currents responsible for the basis of almost the entire marine food chain as well as the temperate climate of Europe

Currently, thirty percent of human CO2 emissions are absorbed by the world's oceans. CO2 in aqueous solution produces carbonic acid which reduces the oceans pH (makes it more acidic). That change affects numerous biochemical reactions utilized by marine life, in particular the ability to fix carbonates into shells, exoskeletons and corals. The loss of corals will expose thousands of miles of coastlines to higher wave energies causing increased erosion and coastal flooding.

So, while some argue that added CO2 will increase agricultural production in some locales and that warming will be welcome by some residents in high latitude settings, the balance of warming effects are and will continue to be overwhelmingly negative.

TOPICS TO EXPLORE

How Do We Know that Humans Are the Source of the Increased CO2?

How Do We Know that CO2 is the Cause of the Warming?

How Do We Know that Warming Will be Harmful?

What Are Tipping Points and Have We Crossed Any?

References

What is the greenhouse effect? - NASA Science

The greenhouse effect is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface by substances known as 'greenhouse gases.' Imagine these gases as a

science.nasa.gov

Causes - NASA Science

Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results

science.nasa.gov

Effects - NASA Science

Global climate change is not a future problem. Changes to Earth’s climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already

science.nasa.gov

What is Ocean Acidification?

Ocean acidification refers to a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

oceanservice.noaa.gov

But wait...we know about "the science" for 25 years now and how many yards has the ball been moved? One yard?

Look at the election. How many voters were concerned about AGW? Almost zerO. Very few are caring about the climate scientists screaming....you know why?

Because people have waaaaay too many concerns about other far more important shit. It's one of those facts of life the climate obsessed don't want to acknowledge.

Also why all the climate sceptics do in here is win....

 

[ReinyDays]

Mamooth got a MAJOR for that? ...

 

[skookerasbil]

Mamooth got a MAJOR for that? ...

Major for Unsportsmanlike conduct plus a game misconduct. Two minute minor penalty for being a weenie

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But wait...we know about "the science" for 25 years now and how many yards has the ball been moved? One yard?

Look at the election. How many voters were concerned about AGW? Almost zerO. Very few are caring about the climate scientists screaming....you know why?

Because people have waaaaay too many concerns about other far more important shit. It's one of those facts of life the climate obsessed don't want to acknowledge.

Also why all the climate sceptics do in here is win....

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[CrusaderFrank]

Climate change hysteria = fear + repetition^2

 

[ReinyDays]

Major for Unsportsmanlike conduct plus a game misconduct. Two minute minor penalty for being a weenie

I'll remember to not bring a hockey stick to the next knife fight ...

 

[Crick]

If the Earth had no atmosphere, the planet's average temperature would be 58F (32C) cooler. Adding back just the oxygen and nitrogen would have almost NO effect on the temperature. That 58F of warming is due almost ENTIRELY to the greenhouse effect acting on two components of our atmosphere. About two-thirds is due to water vapor and one-third to carbon dioxide (CO2). The other components having greenhouse effects are methane, nitrous oxide, chloro- and hydrofluorocarbons.

The Earth began warming with the advent of the Industrial Revolution when the use of steam engines and then internal combustion engines grew rapidly, all fueled with hydrocarbon fossil fuels. The Earth is now warming at a historically extreme rate; twenty five times as rapidly as the Earth moved from glacial to interglacial states over the last 3 million years. That warming has been studied extensively for decades by scientists all over the planet. Their near-universal conclusion is that the primary cause of that warming is the greenhouse effect acting on CO2 emitted by humans burning fossil fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas) for energy and transportation.

Up until the invention of the steam engine, CO2 in our atmosphere stayed in the range of 280 - 300 ppm for almost 3 million years. It is now just breaching 420 ppm, a 50% increase in the gas responsible for one-third of all greenhouse warming. That warming is reinforced by positive feedback from increased humidity in the Earth's atmosphere; water vapor is the most effective greenhouse gas but as a precipitable component of the atmosphere, changes only in response to temperature changes brought about by other agents. Atmospheric CO2 levels are also increased by deforestation and the thawing of frozen tundra.

The warming has numerous effects, many of which are harmful. Aside from its impact on all life forms via more frequent and more intense heat waves, we are experiencing sea level rise and increased ice melt. The energy that drives weather comes from the sun via the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. As global warming increases the energy available for weather, the average intensity of weather will increase. Increased temperatures are causing glaciers and snowpack to disappear. That decreases the Earth's albedo, decreasing the amount of solar radiation reflected back to space and providing more positive feedback. Increased meltwater from the poles is reducing the density of water there and thus the drive for the overturning currents responsible for the basis of almost the entire marine food chain as well as the temperate climate of Europe

Currently, thirty percent of human CO2 emissions are absorbed by the world's oceans. CO2 in aqueous solution produces carbonic acid which reduces the oceans pH (makes it more acidic). That change affects numerous biochemical reactions utilized by marine life, in particular the ability to fix carbonates into shells, exoskeletons and corals. The loss of corals will expose thousands of miles of coastlines to higher wave energies causing increased erosion and coastal flooding.

So, while some argue that added CO2 will increase agricultural production in some locales and that warming will be welcome by some residents in high latitude settings, the balance of warming effects are and will continue to be overwhelmingly negative.

TOPICS TO EXPLORE

How Do We Know that Humans Are the Source of the Increased CO2?

How Do We Know that CO2 is the Cause of the Warming?

How Do We Know that Warming Will be Harmful?

What Are Tipping Points and Have We Crossed Any?

References

What is the greenhouse effect? - NASA Science

The greenhouse effect is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface by substances known as 'greenhouse gases.' Imagine these gases as a

science.nasa.gov

Causes - NASA Science

Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results

science.nasa.gov

Effects - NASA Science

Global climate change is not a future problem. Changes to Earth’s climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already

science.nasa.gov

What is Ocean Acidification?

Ocean acidification refers to a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

oceanservice.noaa.gov

Good post. Good resources backing up the arguments presented. Bravo. Attaboy. Way to go. You must have an enormous penis.

 

[skookerasbil]

Good post. Good resources backing up the arguments presented. Bravo. Attaboy. Way to go. You must have an enormous penis.

But wait.........where are any of your arguments mattering? 20 years of the same exact narrative, "we need to act"........and still nobody is caring. Where is the action?

And its actually going in the wrong direction now ( if one is a climate crusader)........it was already going south and then November 5th happened so its gone from lOsiNg to train wreck.

The "science is absolute" and "we need to act" might matter in a community forum in the nether-regions of the internet but lets face it.......society really isnt giving a shit.

Nothing else matters...........

 

[ChemEngineer]

Climate Change Cult

 

[EMH]

and still nobody is caring

We need to CARE that WE HAVE BEEN BILKED $20 trillion plus by THE MOST OBVIOUS SCIENCE FRAUD EVER

And Pam and Kash need to GET IT DONE ASAP!!!

 

[ViewFromAbove]

We need to CARE that WE HAVE BEEN BILKED $20 trillion plus by THE MOST OBVIOUS SCIENCE FRAUD EVER

And Pam and Kash need to GET IT DONE ASAP!!!

How have "we" been bilked? Science "fraud"? Perhaps you are science STUPID!

OVER 140 climate science experts from 65 countries produced a report on the Physical Science basis of AGW a few years ago (IPCC). Did you read it, or are you speaking with your head inside a deep hole with brown stuff coming out after another science ignoramus eats garbage?

 

[EMH]

^^^^^^

Why we have been bilked...


IQ under 5 parroting morons...

 

[ViewFromAbove]

^^^^^^

Why we have been bilked...


IQ under 5 parroting morons...

Your response reflects an IQ of ZERO.

 

[EMH]

Your response reflects an IQ of ZERO.

LOL!!!

So, since you are such an "expert" on climate change, how about answering some basic climate questions for us...


1. Why does one Earth polar circle have 9+ times the ice of the other?
2. Why is there ice age glacier south of Arctic Circle on Greenland but no such ice age glacier north of Arctic Circle on Alaska?
3. If the oceans are "warming" why is the record decade for canes still the 1940s?
4. If the oceans are "rising" why can't we see one single photo of land sinking?
5. How did Co2 thaw North America and freeze Greenland at the same time?

 

[ViewFromAbove]

LOL!!!

So, since you are such an "expert" on climate change, how about answering some basic climate questions for us...


1. Why does one Earth polar circle have 9+ times the ice of the other?
2. Why is there ice age glacier south of Arctic Circle on Greenland but no such ice age glacier north of Arctic Circle on Alaska?
3. If the oceans are "warming" why is the record decade for canes still the 1940s?
4. If the oceans are "rising" why can't we see one single photo of land sinking?
5. How did Co2 thaw North America and freeze Greenland at the same time?

I am NOT an expert in AGW or climate science. Since I have plenty of education in scientific methodology, I believe the international IPCC reports on the Physical Science basis of "Climate Change" and its human influence.

PLEASE dispute ANY of the probabilistic conclusions of the 100+ experts in Earth science that contributed to IPCC.
Otherwise, STFU with your immature reactions.

 

[EMH]

I believe

rather YOU PARROT

PLEASE dispute ANY of the probabilistic conclusions of the 100+ experts in Earth science that contributed to IPCC.

A great example is atmospheric temps. The data showed NO WARMING, so it was FUDGED...

Key claim against global warming evaporates

Satellite and weather balloon data used to argue that climate models were wrong and that global warming isn't really happening turns out to be based on faulty analyses, according to three new studies.

www.nbcnews.com

You either understand the difference between DATA and FUDGE, or you are DUMB ENOUGH to fall for CO2 FRAUD....

 

[ViewFromAbove]

A great example is atmospheric temps. The data showed NO WARMING, so it was FUDGED...

Key claim against global warming evaporates

Satellite and weather balloon data used to argue that climate models were wrong and that global warming isn't really happening turns out to be based on faulty analyses, according to three new studies.

www.nbcnews.com

You either understand the difference between DATA and FUDGE, or you are DUMB ENOUGH to fall for CO2 FRAUD....

Why did you post that 2005 NBC article? Even then, that article indicated "The atmosphere is indeed warming", and that fact has been confirmed 20 years later.

You appear to have an IQ in the minus range. Get your head out of your conspiracy hole and wise up!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I believe the international IPCC reports on the Physical Science basis of "Climate Change" and its human influence.

What should we do to fix the problem?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How have "we" been bilked? Science "fraud"? Perhaps you are science STUPID!

OVER 140 climate science experts from 65 countries produced a report on the Physical Science basis of AGW a few years ago (IPCC). Did you read it, or are you speaking with your head inside a deep hole with brown stuff coming out after another science ignoramus eats garbage?

IPCC? We redistribute wealth via fake science IPCC?