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Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
reply to post by Eurisko2012
That is, again, glib.
Scientists care a lot less about funding, as a group, than corporations do about profits. In many instances the debate has fallen along the scientists v. corporations line and I'll always trust scientists, as a group, over corporations.
Every time.
Originally posted by JohhnyBGood
reply to post by NoHierarchy
Ah yes of course - the three impartial enquiries.
.................Of course this conclusion is hardly surprising given that, as we have previously reported, the so called “independent” investigation was led by Sir Muir Russell – a vehement supporter of the notion of anthropogenic global warming.
While absurdly billing himself as impartial and unconnected to climate science, Russell is intimately involved with The Royal Society of Edinburgh. The RSE has thrown its weight behind the global warming movement, lending its absolute support for legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions by 80%, a process that will devastate the global economy and living standards.
This organization has been even more vehement than national governments in its advocacy of the man-made cause of global warming, calling for such drastic CO2 cuts to be made in the short term, not even by the usual target date of 2050. For the climategate inquiry,
Russell constructed a panel of “experts” that share exactly the same views, clearly contradicting the founding principle of the inquiry – to appoint experts who do not have a “predetermined view on climate change and climate science”. Russell has called for “a concerted and sustained campaign to win hearts and minds” to restore confidence in the CRU scientists.
www.infowars.com...
Originally posted by exile1981
reply to post by NoHierarchy
Except that the same scientists who were linked to the emails where in on your "independant" evaluation of the emails and that doesn't fly with me. They should have scientists from outside the very close knit Climate cult reviewing the emails.
I too have researched the info and the single most telling item I've read is the nasa study that showed that Mars and Venus' surface temps have gone up by the same amounts during the same period as earths have. In fact every planet in our solar system has increased in temperature over the last 100 years. The sun has also increased in temperature.
www.globalresearch.ca...
So unless you want to propose that there is a society on every other planet in our solar system who has hiddn from us till now and who have technology at our level (ie burn fossil fuels) then this single piece of data shows that the vast majority of the temperature increase is actually being caused by something other than us.
On the issue of CO2, we (the west) always get the blame for the majority of the CO2. Yet the Chinese have 16 ships that together produce more sulfur and CO2 than all the cars in THE WORLD combined.
How much effort would you say should be put into finding ways to cope with what may be an inevitable change
From a scientific standpoint, there is agreement that increases in atmospheric CO2 causes the planet to warm.
The science is not settled as to how much the planet will warm due to a doubling of CO2 as there is not scientific agreement as to how sensitive the planet is to a change in forcing.
If the planet does not amplify a change in forcing the planetary temperature will increase 1.2C for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from 0.028% to 0.056%.
The data and analysis in this study significantly reduces the maximum expected temperature for a doubling of CO2.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by jdub297
How much effort would you say should be put into finding ways to cope with what may be an inevitable change
Most of the western world would be unable to cope with the outcome of cliimate change if that outcome ends up inducing an ice age... You would die..!
As you said it 'may be an inevitable change' which also means you conceed it may not be an inevatable change. The gamble is not worth taking.
Lets look at America and China. The US produces just under 20% of the worlds CO2 and China just over 20%. China has about 1.3 billion people and the US has just over 300 million.
So as you can see there is a very disproportional use of carbon on behalf of the US...
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by ladykenzie
in fact, many of them vehemently disagreed.
put you money where you mouth is. show me some of the papers they produced to disagree with the theory. it sounds like heresay to me....
A simple google search will link you to over 900 peer reviewed papers contesting AGW
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by JohhnyBGood
A simple google search will link you to over 900 peer reviewed papers contesting AGW
A simple google search for 'the moon is made of cheese' will link me 32,000,000 webpages... Cmon bud get a grip of reality here. Cannot you not see how absurd your arguments are.
I looked at your link and none of the references are peer reviewed papers. There are letters and publications but no hard science there.. Do you not think at this point you should question why you blindly follow something with no evidence.......edit on 26-11-2011 by purplemer because: (no reason given)
Nature 316, 591 - 596 (15 August 1985); doi:10.1038/316591a0 A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice C. LORIUS*, J. JOUZEL†, C. RITZ*, L. MERLIVAT†, N. I. BARKOV‡, Y. S. KOROTKEVICH† & V. M. KOTLYAKOV§
*Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, BP96, 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres Cedex, France †Laboratoire de Géochimie Isotopique DPC, CEN Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France ‡The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Fontanka 34, Leningrad 191104, USSR §Institute of Geography, Academy of Sciences of USSR, Staronometry, St 29, Moscow 109017, USSR
During much of the Quaternary, the Earth's climate has undergone drastic changes most notably successive glacial and interglacial episodes. The past 150 kyr includes such a climatic cycle: the last interglacial, the last glacial and the present holocene interglacial. A new climatic–time series for this period has been obtained using δ18 O data from an Antarctic ice core.