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Steezie
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Ok, our last real global warming thread got kinda sidelined.
Why are there still opponents to the idea of global warming?
We have ice core evidence stretching back 650,000 years that show a higher concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere than has EVER existed on the Earth before (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/310/5752/1317 Link data expressed graphically HERE and more recently HERE) and that this increase has been within the last several hundred years. Now, only a few real significant things have happened in the last several hundred years. Industrialization is the most likely candidate off that small list.
We know that CO2 acts as a blanket, trapping the heat of the sun that strikes the Earth.
None of this is disputed by anyboddy who knows which end of the microscope to look into.
Every single scientific organization that deals with climate (The only exception being one that gets its paycheck signed by oil companies) has projected a dramatic temperature increase in the next hundred years (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Global_Warming_Predictions.png)
Dozens of studdies have been conducted and nearly all of them say the same thing http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
The 10 hottest years on record have been recorded in the last 14 years. Glacier thickness has decreased dramatically.
So...why with ALL this data, are there still people sticking thier fingers in thier ears and denying that global warming is even a problem.
I've even left a few things out because I cant find graphs for some of them. Ocean temperatures are increasing as the years go by, and in 2005 we had the WORST year for storms on record. Warmer water means stronger storms. Temperatures in the US have broken all-time highs at unprecedented rates. More cities in the US reported record high temperatures than any other year in US history.
Even if this absoltue mountain of evidence doesnt conclusively prove global warming, should we do something to control our carbon emissions anyways? Just incase we ARE the problem? What would it hurt to be more environmentally conscious? If we're wrong and we arent responsible for global warming, we've become more environmentally conscious and decreased our negative impact on evironment. But if global warming DOES turn out to be human-caused, if we're wrong, we've essentially caused a new ice-age and devistated the planet. So it pays to be cautious on this, we win if we're right and we win if we're wrong, Im not seeing the negative here.
Why are there still opponents to the idea of global warming?
We have ice core evidence stretching back 650,000 years that show a higher concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere than has EVER existed on the Earth before (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/310/5752/1317 Link data expressed graphically HERE and more recently HERE) and that this increase has been within the last several hundred years. Now, only a few real significant things have happened in the last several hundred years. Industrialization is the most likely candidate off that small list.
We know that CO2 acts as a blanket, trapping the heat of the sun that strikes the Earth.
None of this is disputed by anyboddy who knows which end of the microscope to look into.
Every single scientific organization that deals with climate (The only exception being one that gets its paycheck signed by oil companies) has projected a dramatic temperature increase in the next hundred years (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Global_Warming_Predictions.png)
Dozens of studdies have been conducted and nearly all of them say the same thing http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png
The 10 hottest years on record have been recorded in the last 14 years. Glacier thickness has decreased dramatically.
So...why with ALL this data, are there still people sticking thier fingers in thier ears and denying that global warming is even a problem.
I've even left a few things out because I cant find graphs for some of them. Ocean temperatures are increasing as the years go by, and in 2005 we had the WORST year for storms on record. Warmer water means stronger storms. Temperatures in the US have broken all-time highs at unprecedented rates. More cities in the US reported record high temperatures than any other year in US history.
Even if this absoltue mountain of evidence doesnt conclusively prove global warming, should we do something to control our carbon emissions anyways? Just incase we ARE the problem? What would it hurt to be more environmentally conscious? If we're wrong and we arent responsible for global warming, we've become more environmentally conscious and decreased our negative impact on evironment. But if global warming DOES turn out to be human-caused, if we're wrong, we've essentially caused a new ice-age and devistated the planet. So it pays to be cautious on this, we win if we're right and we win if we're wrong, Im not seeing the negative here.
