Yes there is. The system is too big, and the available time for study is too small for a conclusive answer.
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No, doesn't help. There is still no logical connection between the size or age of the universe, and whether we understand some particular thing or not. If you were to spell it out as an actual argument, perhaps you would realize how ridiculous it is.
Well if I wasn't so lazy I could post my own little graph, showing how long our solar system and planet earth have existed, and how long man has existed. The existence of humanity is a tiny, tiny speck of time. We have no idea what effects we've had, and no idea what we are even measuring.
Yes there is. The system is too big, and the available time for study is too small for a conclusive answer.
It only takes a day in the lab with the right equipment to determine that increasing carbon dioxide in a gas mixture causes it to retain more heat.
Wow, I thought I was just being open-minded and reasonable. Now I'm labeled with this slightly insulting word "denialist".Well there's a lot of conflicting science on the subject (as well as a lot of big-money interests and political power grabs at stake), but those of you who want to trade in your car for a bicycle to save the planet, I'll gladly take your fossil fuel car, 'cause mine went kaput a couple of nights ago.
Do you realize that 10,000 years is nothing whatsoever?
I think it was England. And the Industrial Revolution is also responsible for the internet you're typing on. Progress is always a double-edged sword, just like science.
It is the big-money interestests and politicians who are trying to convince you that there is a lot of conflicting science. There isn't. The science is clear. The burning of fossil fuels has rapidly increased the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and it is trapping heat that would otherwise reflect back into space. The only scientific debate going on right now is how much of an impact this will have. The debate over the basic science was over quite a while ago.
Then why have the Chicken Littles been caught twisting evidence and outright lying? You shouldn't have to do that if the science is solid. You shouldn't do it at all.
Again, you are buying into the propoganda being spread by big money interests and politicians.
Do you think scientists are really lying about the basic physics of carbon dioxide trapping heat in our atmosphere? This science was settled in the 1800's, for crying out loud.
Who's being a denialist now? Some scientists and their socio-politcal adherents have been caught lying. Why do people lie? Because they want others to believe what they want them to believe. Again, that doesn't necessarily disprove climate warming, but we all should have reason to be suspicious.
Do you think scientists are lying about the ability of carbon dioxide to act as a greenhouse gas? Yes or no?
No I don't, but it's still a bit of a tricky question, because "greenhouse" is a metaphor, and I understand a bit of how atmosphere works, but a planet is not a greenhouse.
Doesn't change the fact that increasing atmospheric CO2 traps more heat on Earth.
It's not a tricky question at all. It is simple physics. Carbon dioxide absorbs light in the infrared spectrum. After absorbing that light it emits a lower frequency infrared photon. The trick is that the angle of emission is not the same as the angle of absorption. Therefore, carbon dioxide will absorb heat and will re-emit that heat back towards the Earth at a given probability.
This is very similar to how a greenhouse works. Glass is transparent for visible light, but it is opaque for infrared light (i.e. heat). As the inside of the greenhouse heats up from the absorption of visible light it begins to emit infrared light. The glass in the greenhouse reflects heat back towards the plants which keeps the greenhouse warmer.
Assuming that we have agreement on the simple physics, do you think that scientists are lying about the increase of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere over the last 200 years?
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