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Dude, I had a look at your first 'news' story and it's just right-wing denialism dressed up science. Seriously, learn to follow your sources through to the end! Who do they quote? A trained climatologist? No. A denialist blogger with a bit of a science degree. "climate blogger Pierre Gosselin"
Who is he?
"I’m a US citizen, received an Associate Degree in Civil Engineering at Vermont Technical College and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Now I live in Europe and help my wife, the owner, run a small business that provides services for industry. I’ve always been a skeptic of the AGW hypothesis, and view myself as a mere spectator in the climate change debate and arena."
Aw, ain't he cute? He's an engineer who wanna be a climatologist when he grows up. Except he isn't.
Next?
Hint: check your sources before you embarrass yourself like this.
If you check the credentials of many of the "scientists" that are regularly quoted for ANG, you will see that their credentials pale into nothingness beside his.
But did you even bother examine the ultimate source I gave? The Danish government's Center for Ocean and Ice!!!!
(But of course, I suppose the Danish government actually knows nothing about Arctic Ice, as it is of no legitimate interest to them.)
Hi.Global warming is a man made con designed to ultimately tax every living creature on the earth. The carbon tax/ emmissions tax schemes do absolutely nothing to reduce co2 , but it does a lot to make certain people very wealthy.
CO2 feeds plants. Its the only pollution pumped onto farms to grow food. Did you know plant life goes dormant if CO2 falls too low?
Did you forget to provide EVIDENCE of exactly WHICH crops can tolerate these higher levels? DId you forget that many OTHER crops REACT NEGATIVELY to higher CO2, as I have shown above? Hmmm. Not oversimplifying anything to drum home your Denialism, are we?Farmers dont just pump in an extra 5 or 10% either, they ramp up the concentration 4 or 5 fold in greenhouses. Did the government scientists forget to mention that?
Not sure what you are trying to get at here: it does not destroy the science. If it's an attack on political hypocrisy, I'm probably going to shout AMEN BROTHER! Australia shouldn't be exporting our coal because we export twice more than we burn, and humanity needs to leave 4/5ths of the remaining fossil fuels underground if we want to avoid shoving our children and grandchildren into Mad Max.Australia is the largest exporter of coal in the world. But did they say that China digs up nearly 10 times more coal than we do?
I AGREE! This does happen.The famous ice core graphs of Al Gore expanded to 20 meters square turned out to show the opposite of what he claimed. Temperatures drive carbon and lead it by 800 years. Worse,iIt was well known, and not contested two years before he made his movie.
Revelation 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9 They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
Not only is global warming entirely consistent with prophecy (and not just this one verse), but so is the denialism. You know exactly what I'm talking about: people over and over again (including Al Gore) saying we need to band together as humanity and tackle this problem to save ourselves--and time and again those people are scorned and ridiculed. You don't think stopping the killing and banding together to fight a common enemy glorifies God?
Over the last 30 years, every forested continent has had a widespread drought which has killed trees. The geographical scale of drought, and the duration and almost coordinated nature of these droughts across continents, is causing extreme alarm in ecological circles.
In Australia, we had a seven-year eastern seaboard drought in the first decade of this century. Most of Western Europe was in drought in 2003: the human death toll was as high as 70,000 because of the associated heat-wave.
Crop losses and forest mortality, especially in southern Europe, were extensive; more than 500,000 ha of forest was lost in southern Europe alone. Currently the mid-west and south western United States of America are experiencing exceptional drought (a class above extreme drought), with widespread tree mortality and increased fire severity across the region.
Forests in Asia and South America have been experiencing recurrent drought, forest mortality and increased fire frequency for the past several decades.
When forests die, several things happen. Local temperatures go up; when this happens on a large enough scale it alters weather patterns. The way water catchments recharge stream-flows and groundwater is altered for many decades following the drought. The loss of forest cover across vast areas increases soil erosion through wind and, when it finally comes, rain.
Forests provide many ecosystem services: wood, crop pollination, tourism, soil stability, conservation of biodiversity and water purification. Losing vast areas of forests is detrimental to human, catchment, regional and ecosystem health.
Many Christians who bother to read about the actual science of climate change (and don't just get their science from politically distorted opinions on Fox News) sometimes wonder how it all fits into the 'End times' or Last Days? I have a theologian friend who is doing this very subject as their Phd. He concludes that there is a place for mourning the wholesale destruction of God's world that God made and cares about. He thinks that the church has a large role to play in leading a movement towards caring about and solving climate change. Sure a lot of this could just be selfish self-preservation. I don't want to live in a world striving through fresh water wars and climate disrupted famines. I don't want to see more species going extinct, as I like animals. But I should probably care more than I do just from selfish reasons. I should care because God, my Father in Heaven, made this world. He fashioned it out of billions of years of evolution, and then had the early Hebrews write a poem about how orderly it all is. He woke up the first humans and gave them sentience. He gave us some means of living forever, but then we turned our back on him and we died. He gave us a nice climate to have civilisation evolve in, but then we trashed that too. As Christians, we should care about this stuff, and try to honour God in these Last Days with our lives, our money, our relationships, and our energy sources... and the letters we write to government about cleaning those energy sources up.
And we should be careful we're not conned by the greed of fossil fuel corporations.
A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money!
Yep...but that falsehood made a lot of money for a lot of people...Ask Al Gore.
Climate change, especially a man-made event, don't line up with God's Word, which says the judgments against the earth are caused by Him!!!
And I wholeheartedly disagree that man can change ANYTHING ordained by God!
Hmm, the problem is that most go from being stewards to worshiping the creation rather than the Creator.
Do you have ANY idea about the multi-year thickness of that ice? Yes, the Arctic has seasonal fluctuations. That's a FACT! The ice regrows each year. Also a FACT! But here's another FACT! Climatologists know this. It does not challenge global warming. Asserting that it does just shows ignorance of the facts.But this scientific fact pretty much dispels the "theory" of climate change.
Arctic Ice Expands, Dispelling Myths of Climate Change
Wednesday, 11 September 2013 09:11
Yep...but that falsehood made a lot of money for a lot of people...Ask Al Gore.
Not that some didn't really believe it though.