Now I know why righties are so deluded about global warming

Discussion in 'Politics' started by futurecurrents, Jan 12, 2014.

  1. No. I understand your "point" very well.

    You are so dumb that you think somehow the amount of something determines how potent something is.

    Of course you just happened to see this on a right wing propaganda site and in your non-discerning and eagerness to be a good righty way, accepted this stupidity as a good argument.
     
    #131     Jan 19, 2014
  2. The next time you hear someone dispute that human activity is destabilizing our climate, remember this pie chart.

    It represents geochemist James Lawrence Powell's review of 2,258 peer-reviewed scientific articles about climate change, written by 9,136 authors, published between Nov. 12, 2012 and December 31, 2013.

    Of all those hundreds of papers and thousands of researchers, Powell found one article, authored by a single scientist, that attributed climate change to something other than human actions: "The Role of Solar Activity in Global Warming," by S.V. Avakyan, appearing in the Herald of the Russian Academy of Science, Vol. 83, No. 3.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/majority-of-scientists-accept-human-caused-climate-change-2014-1


    One! One guy! GW is a fact up there with evolution and big bang theory.
     
    #132     Jan 19, 2014
  3. jem

    jem

    you can download his database here..

    http://www.jamespowell.org/index.html

    you can see the study is bullshit... yourself.

    a. The real issue is how many papers state or present science showing man made co2 is causing significant warming.


    here are the first 20 papers...




    1,2-Dichlorohexafluoro-cyclobutane (1,2-c-C4F6Cl2, R-316c) a Potent Ozone Depleting Substance and Greenhouse Gas: Atmospheric Loss Processes, Lifetimes, and Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Potentials for the (E) and (Z) Stereoisomers
    125 years of high-mountain research at Sonnblick Observatory (Austrian Alps)-from "the house above the clouds" to a unique research platform
    200-MW chemical looping combustion based thermal power plant for clean power generation
    2050 Scenarios for Long-Haul Tourism in the Evolving Global Climate Change Regime
    A 2 degrees C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps
    A C-Repeat Binding Factor Transcriptional Activator (CBF/DREB1) from European Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) Induces Freezing Tolerance When Expressed in Arabidopsis thaliana
    A canonical response of precipitation characteristics to global warming from CMIP5 models
    A catalogue of putative unique transcripts from Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) based on 454 transcriptome sequencing of genetically diverse, drought stressed seedlings
    A climate change-induced threat to the ecological resilience of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest in Southern China
    A closed-circuit gas recycling system for RPC detectors
    A COLLABORATIVE FUZZY-NEURAL SYSTEM FOR GLOBAL CO2 CONCENTRATION FORECASTING
    A comparative estimate of life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from two types of constructed wetlands in Tianjin, China
    A comparative study of three different methods for flare gas recovery of Asalooye Gas Refinery
    A comparison of electricity production technologies in terms of sustainable development
    A comparison of statistical and dynamic modeling of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) fungal diseases under the climate change
    A Comparison of Water Quality Between Low- and High-Flow River Conditions in a Tropical Estuary, Hilo Bay, Hawaii
    A Comprehensive Modeling Study on Regional Climate Model (RCM) Application - Regional Warming Projections in Monthly Resolutions under IPCC A1B Scenario
    A comprehensive overview of the spatial and temporal variability of apple bud dormancy release and blooming phenology in Western Europe
    A coral reef refuge in the Red Sea


    you can download his database here..

    http://www.jamespowell.org/index.html

    you can see the study is bullshit... yourself.

    1. The real issue is how many papers state or present science showing man made co2 is causing significant warming.
     
    #133     Jan 19, 2014
  4. Humpy

    Humpy

    Climate change has little to do with left/right wings of politics.
    Both sides are mean with the money, wasting it on the military etc. and short sighted on the importance of keeping the planet habitable.
     
    #134     Jan 20, 2014

  5. Yup. But idiots like jem will try to even deny that there is a overwhelming consensus. That's how fucked up they are.
     
    #135     Jan 20, 2014

  6. No jem. It really is 97% consensus no matter how much total bullshit you fling. There are the facts and then there is what you think. Two different things.
     
    #136     Jan 20, 2014
  7. maxpi

    maxpi

    It has to do with a few scientists that work for the UN essentially. GW would give them an excuse to levy a tax and increase their power.
     
    #137     Jan 20, 2014
  8. Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities,1and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources.


    AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
    Statement on climate change from 18 scientific associations
    "Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (2009)2
    AAAS emblem
    American Association for the Advancement of Science
    "The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society." (2006)3
    ACS emblem
    American Chemical Society
    "Comprehensive scientific assessments of our current and potential future climates clearly indicate that climate change is real, largely attributable to emissions from human activities, and potentially a very serious problem." (2004)4
    AGU emblem
    American Geophysical Union
    "Human‐induced climate change requires urgent action. Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years. Rapid societal responses can significantly lessen negative outcomes." (Adopted 2003, revised and reaffirmed 2007, 2012, 2013)5
    AMA emblem
    American Medical Association
    "Our AMA ... supports the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fourth assessment report and concurs with the scientific consensus that the Earth is undergoing adverse global climate change and that anthropogenic contributions are significant." (2013)6
    AMS emblem
    American Meteorological Society
    "It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide." (2012)7
    APS emblem
    American Physical Society
    "The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now." (2007)8
    GSA emblem
    The Geological Society of America
    "The Geological Society of America (GSA) concurs with assessments by the National Academies of Science (2005), the National Research Council (2006), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that global climate has warmed and that human activities (mainly greenhouse‐gas emissions) account for most of the warming since the middle 1900s." (2006; revised 2010)9


    SCIENCE ACADEMIES
    International academies: Joint statement
    "Climate change is real. There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world’s climate. However there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and from phenomena such as increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes to many physical and biological systems. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001)." (2005, 11 international science academies)10
    USNAS emblem
    U.S. National Academy of Sciences
    "The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (2005)11


    U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
    USGCRP emblem
    U.S. Global Change Research Program
    "The global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases. Human 'fingerprints' also have been identified in many other aspects of the climate system, including changes in ocean heat content, precipitation, atmospheric moisture, and Arctic sea ice." (2009, 13 U.S. government departments and agencies)12


    INTERGOVERNMENTAL BODIES
    IPCC emblem
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level.”13

    “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely* due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.”14

    *IPCC defines ‘very likely’ as greater than 90 percent probability of occurrence.


    OTHER RESOURCES
    List of worldwide scientific organizations
    The following page lists the nearly 200 worldwide scientific organizations that hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action.
    http://opr.ca.gov/s_listoforganizations.php
     
    #138     Jan 20, 2014