That's odd, the ice seems to increase in the winter and decrease in the summer. This data must be wrong.
So much WIN!!!! Trump to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General and Climate Change critic Scott Pruitt to lead EPA Trump to nominate EPA critic Pruitt to lead agency http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/trump-picks-scott-pruitt-to-head-epa/index.html ------------------------- Pruitt is a prominent critic of politically driven climate science, writing in the National Review in May that "the debate is far from settled" over whether human activity has contributed to the warming of the earth. So much WIN!!!
So how do they pay you? By the post? Number of words? What do you think of those "scientists" that lied and said tobacco is not harmful? How many more cases of lung cancer did they cause? Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming Paperback – May 24, 2011 Have you read this book? Oreskes and Conway tell an important story about the misuse of science to mislead the public on matters ranging from the risks of smoking to the reality of global warming. The people the authors accuse in this carefully documented book are themselves scientists—mostly physicists, former cold warriors who now serve a conservative agenda, and vested interests like the tobacco industry. The authors name these scientists—all with powerful connections in government and the media—including Robert Jastrow, Frederick Seitz, and S. Fred Singer. Seven compelling chapters detail seven issues (acid rain, the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke, the ozone hole, global warming, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the banning of DDT) in which this group aimed to sow seeds of public doubt on matters of settled science. They did so by casting aspersions on the science and the scientists who produce it. Oreskes, a professor of history and science studies at UC–San Diego, and science writer Conway also emphasize how journalists and Internet bloggers uncritically repeat these charges. This book deserves serious attention for the lessons it provides about the misuse of science for political and commercial ends. (June)
Tsing, I'm completely certain that you, personally, being an intelligent opponent, understand the broader implications of the fact that high temperature anomalies outnumber low temperature anomalies. True, in case you were going to mention it, that statement alone does not account for amplitude.
Of course I do. I'll even go so far as to say I believe that man has a pronounced, probably even detrimental effect on the environment. To what degree, I cannot say as I am not informed enough to be able to venture a guess. But I do like taking the piss with futurecurrents.
I would say with 7 billion people using up the earths resources we ought to be messing up the earth. But the earth has massive and complex negative feedbacks. So oddly there is no science showing man is currently impacting temperature other than changing the temperature records we have recorded. If anyone wishes to produce peer reviewed science showing man is change worldwide temps I will retract the above statement. Remember oceans have been warming since the last ice age... so don't just tell us the earth is warming. Show us man is causing some of that warming with scientific proof.
Except for the scientists who say otherwise, because that's what science is: human beings doing the research and reporting.