Please take the time to study this, climate change is proven no matter the naysayers would have you believe. Opinion is not an arbiter of truth science fortunately is.
These graphics reveal the findings of the IPCC published this January. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...limate-change/
We need solutions now not dissent, this is the biggest threat humanity now faces.
The fossil fuel industry has spent hundreds of millions to shape public debate, sewing confusion and doubt were they can not outright bring an ignorant public to believe climate change to be a lie. Moreso they have bought politicans with easy campaign money to blind their belief even in the face of obvious global change. Science has faileto provide smoking gun evidence of the truth, one sometimes needs to present the evidence in more than graphs. But is the public open to spending more time to understand when the opposition provides simplistic dogmas that feed that public ignorance. By highlighting the lesser evidence that contradicts the primary contention the greater truth can be magically hidden, though in plain sight. The proof of global climate change
is found in ocean ph, in almost all glaciers in rapid retreat, in oceans rising, in CO2 PPM record levels, in the severity of storms, in the disruption of patterns beyond statistical expectation. Instances of local exceptions do not contradict the greater claim of climate change. Temperatures are only one measure of change, change is the whole broader calculus of the environment as a whole.
I don't think it's whether it's happening, I believe it's the cause. My belief is that this is a force of nature that has been going on since the Earth was formed. An example is that climate change killed the mammoths and the plethora of evidence that the Earth has experienced warm and cold climate changes as far back as we can see.
This isn't poetry, this is the language of reality.
Pretty much the opinion of paleontologists is that human beings killed off the mammoths, both in the Americas and Europe, climate if anything was improving making the lives of mammoths easier. The same can be said of several other species that were either a food source for man or a competive hunter of those food sources. While the history of the Earth shows warming and cooling periods, this one is qualitatively different. The net effects that are evidenced in the oceans has not been seen in other warming events. Oceans are however problematic in that the evidence in rocks become consumed in ocean spreading or mountain building over hundreds of millions of years. But except for that caviat, this period is unique, special, extraordinary.Originally Posted by norenrad
You have to look at this politically; just about every politician who is screaming climate change has huge personal investments in solar or non-carbon type energy. Al Gore and you guessed it, Barack Obama have the most investments and scream the loudest over fossil fuel use.
You must also distinguish pollution from fossil fuel use, as in cars, which is blamed by some as the cause of climate change.
I received this in my inbox the other day concerning climate change.
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Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better! If you've read his book you will agree, this is a good summary.
Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO 2 emissions on our planet - all of you.
Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.
I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.
The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.
I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.
Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.
And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.
Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus “human-caused” climate change scenario.
Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention “Global Warming” any more, but just “Climate Change” - you know why? It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.
And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.
But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
~ George Orwell ‘1984’
These sites explain that humans were not the principle cause of the mammoth's decline, climate played a role:
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/oct...oolly-mammoths
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24034954
"In place of tundra grew a vast, arid grassland that paleobiologist R. Dale Guthrie has called the mammoth steppe, stretching from Ireland to Kamchatka and across the Bering land bridge to Alaska, the Yukon, and much of North America. The grasses, broad-leaved herbs, and low shrubs of the steppe provided nutritious food, and in addition to mammoths, nourished a profusion of other outsize, exuberantly hairy mammalian megafauna—woolly rhinoceroses, enormous long-horned bison, and bear-size beavers, as well as the fearsome carnivores that hunted them: saber-toothed cats, cave hyenas, and giant short-faced bears."
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...s/mueller-text
This explains a place that is frozen now, but wasn't frozen then.
This isn't poetry, this is the language of reality.
"Earth’s oceans, forests and other ecosystems continue to soak up about half the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, even as those emissions have increased, according to a study by University of Colorado and NOAA scientists published today in the journal Nature.
The scientists analyzed 50 years of global carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements and found that the processes by which the planet’s oceans and ecosystems absorb the greenhouse gas are not yet at capacity.“Globally, these carbon dioxide ‘sinks’ have roughly kept pace with emissions from human activities, continuing to draw about half of the emitted CO2 back out of the atmosphere."
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...rbonstudy.html
I think that if we are truly concerned, we should start looking at how much of our vegetation is being destroyed. If I remember right, vegetation plays a large role in our climate and should be protected.
This isn't poetry, this is the language of reality.
Climate change make no mistake is this time man made. Sites which claim 'evidence' are cherry picking data and not run by climate scientists.
To claim that Al gore had vested interests in proclaiming climate change is a ludicrous slur. The real vested interests lay in the huge multinational oil companies, coal companies, refiners power companies, even countries and the like that make billions by burning fossil fuels. They have backed ad campaigns and destroyed the rational debate in the US.
Yes natural climate is cyclical and depends on a variety of different variables the tilt of the planets axis, sun spot activity even the shape of the continents. Ice ages come and go. This time is has been shown time and again to be directly linked to our burning of fossil fuels. No one has ever been daft enough to deny that burning fossil fuels creates co2 or doesn't cause warming. The massive amounts we have pumped into the atmosphere have had an effect.
Reading opinions of activists no matter how well intentioned, doesn't mean they are right. Natural skepticism is great but cherry picking evidence and denying the truth is dangerous. You won't find hardly any climate scientists disagreeing climate change this time is man made or even scientists. Read Scientific American or New Scientist and there is article after article explaining climate change and the evidence.
In the UK the government is cutting green levies on power companies because fossil fuel prices are going up. They are offering incentives to fracking companies. It's madness. No one wants to pay for this, especially politicians. It's short termism. We need a sustainable energy infrastructure anyway fossil fuels will run out. Even if CC was baloney fossil fuels will soon be prohibitively high.
So the other 50%? Stays in the atmosphere building up all the time causing heating and acidification of the oceans.
More vegetation would be great as long as it ends up trapped in the ground like coal or oil. Most bio matter as it decays releases co2 back into the atmosphere. That's why biofuels are essentially carbon neutral they don't reduce the amount of co2 in the atmosphere.
"... planet’s oceans and ecosystems that absorb the greenhouse gas are not yet at capacity. Globally, these carbon dioxide ‘sinks’ have roughly kept pace with emissions from human activities,..."
This isn't poetry, this is the language of reality.
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