Enmos
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Global warming being caused by man is a massive hoax...
Yeah, God did it.
Global warming being caused by man is a massive hoax...
There was a man on PBS last week saying that the glacier he had studied for 20 some years was INCREASING in size...Naturally, this was due to the "sometimes unusual effects of global warming"....Geeze Louise! can people just say whatever they want and be taken 4serious. When it comes to the enviro, it would seem that way.
Global warming leads to greater humidity in the air and could lead to greater rainfall in some areas. Science is complicated, sorry if it doesn't translate well into simple sound bites.
A World War II fighter plane once entombed under several hundred feet (nearly 100 meters) of snow and ice in Greenland is back in the skies to complete a mission it began nearly 65 years ago.
errr......isn't rainfall typically above freezing? Yet it makes glaciers grow?
Science is complicated, indeed.
The Science and Public Policy Institute say there are at least 35 inconvenient truths in Al Gore's movie:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
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Creationist websites never get their facts straight. Glaciers are not dated by ice depth - there are other methods, and the Greenland ice is many, many thousands of years old.metakron said:Not only does this tend to make people believe in global cooling, it also tends to show that the ice in that glacier might only be a thousand to two thousand years old.
The recent increase in the Greenland melting is on top, of the youngest ice and snow. The rock under most of the Greenland cap is not nearly warm enough to melt ice.metakron said:Old ice melts where it is in contact with the earth and is squeezed out from underneath
The CO2 increase we have caused has been measured, at the Mauna Loa station among others, and found to be more than a third in the past couple of hundred years, and possibly accellerating.truthseeker said:It's obvious that the levels of greenhouse gases has increased due to humans. The question, however, is whether we have caused a significant increase.
You obviously didn't read what I wrote.The CO2 increase we have caused has been measured, at the Mauna Loa station among others, and found to be more than a third in the past couple of hundred years, and possibly accellerating.
That is significant.
The X of current CO2 concentration is measured agaisnt the relevant Y of former CO2 concentration.truthseeker said:If you say it increased by X, that is not enough information to confirm it is significant. You must have a Y to measure against.
He never said he did.
It's not false. The IPCC says it's extremely likely:
The combined anthropogenic RF [Radiative forcing] is estimated to be +1.6
[–1.0, +0.8]2 W m–2, indicating that, since 1750, it is extremely
likely that humans have exerted a substantial warming
influence on climate. This RF estimate is likely to be at least
five times greater than that due to solar irradiance changes. For
the period 1950 to 2005, it is exceptionally unlikely that the
combined natural RF (solar irradiance plus volcanic aerosol)
has had a warming influence comparable to that of the combined
anthropogenic RF.
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Ch02.pdf
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Indicators of the human influence on the atmosphere
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It's not ridiculous. The Nobel Prizewinning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most respected scientific body pertaining to this issue on Earth.
The recent rise in CO2 has been analyzed, and they found that the molecules contain the signatures of OLD carbon, so it must come from fossil fuels, not more recent natural sources.
Its convenient to quote liberally edited wikipedia sources:roflmao:
:bravo:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine
When questioned in 1998, OISM's Arthur Robinson admitted that only 2,100 signers of the Oregon Petition had identified themselves as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, or meteorologists, "and of those the greatest number are physicists." This grouping of fields concealed the fact that only a few dozen, at most, of the signatories were drawn from the core disciplines of climate science - such as meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology - and almost none were climate specialists. The names of the signers are available on the OISM's website, but without listing any institutional affiliations or even city of residence, making it very difficult to determine their credentials or even whether they exist at all. When the Oregon Petition first circulated, in fact, environmental activists successfully added the names of several fictional characters and celebrities to the list, including John Grisham, Michael J. Fox, Drs. Frank Burns, B. J. Honeycutt, and Benjamin Pierce (from the TV show M*A*S*H), an individual by the name of "Dr. Red Wine," and Geraldine Halliwell, formerly known as pop singer Ginger Spice of the Spice Girls. Halliwell's field of scientific specialization was listed as "biology."