It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed (82,83,97,123).
We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.
As coal, oil, and natural gas are used to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe, more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people.
The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less. The most practical, economical, and environmentally sound methods available are hydrocarbon and nuclear technologies.
Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future. The CO2 produced does, however, accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permits plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also flourishes, and the diversity of plant and animal life is increased.
Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed.
originally posted by: HauntWok
for one its not global warming. its global climate change.
Flat earthers for some reason don't understand the difference.
like I've said before, if you believe your car exhaust isn't harmful, put a hose from your tailpipe to the cab, get in and turn the engine on, breathe deeply and post how well you're doing after a few hours.
It's a closed system, this planet. you burn things and put it into the atmosphere, the land, the water, how well do you think the planet can cope? How long before what we put in changes how the planet operates?
now, its not all man's fault, the planet does go through warming and cooling periods. but we aren't helping.
for one its not global warming. its global climate change.
Flat earthers for some reason don't understand the difference.
...
It's a closed system, this planet.
...
now, its not all man's fault, the planet does go through warming and cooling periods. but we aren't helping.
originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: redtic
The point is NCDC has been cooking the books making the temps higher. they said that 2012 was the warmest year but they went back and made 1936 the warmest again.
originally posted by: HauntWok
but hey, don't take my word for it, how was last winter for you? little colder than your used to? kinda odd right?
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: Grimpachi
So before I go celebrating that there is no climate change I want to know which is it that is supposed to add to sea level.
The million dollar question. Good luck with that. Every year in spring time the ice and snow covering a million mountains and the ice at the poles recedes. Rivers overflow, plains flood, a deluge heads down stream…
…but sea levels remain constant.
If you get a satisfactory answer to that one, let me know.
BTW I did look it up and the sea level is rising the most recent measurement is from 2012 and it is said to be 2 cm a year then. I don't know if that has accelerated or decelerated.
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. In Defense of Women (1918