RealityPortal a dit:
And amazingly enough, it seems that the consensus we all been told about isn't that strong after all. Infowars etc reports:
Definitive Proof: Majority Of Scientists Do Not Support Man Made Warming Theory. Though the survey has not yet been released, the results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, and science blog DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy which states:
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."
Yawn yawn fucking yawn, global warming swindle all over again. Please come with some info you actually argumented AND studied yourself instead of just copying/pasting horse shit.
Its easy to collect all that has been said into an abstraction called 'report' and then juggle with even more abstractions, people expressed in percentages that do or do not agree. You never spoke those people, you never asked them personally how they feel about it etc..
Here's some generic accepted info related to global warming:
he report, based on the work of some 2,500 scientists in more than 130 countries, concluded that humans have caused all or most of the current planetary warming. Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.
* Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?
* Global Warming Can Be Stopped, World Climate Experts Say
* Global Warming Interactive: Learn About Its Causes and Effects
• Industrialization, deforestation, and pollution have greatly increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, all greenhouse gases that help trap heat near Earth's surface. (See an interactive feature on how global warming works.)
• Humans are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than plants and oceans can absorb it.
• These gases persist in the atmosphere for years, meaning that even if such emissions were eliminated today, it would not immediately stop global warming.
• Some experts point out that natural cycles in Earth's orbit can alter the planet's exposure to sunlight, which may explain the current trend. Earth has indeed experienced warming and cooling cycles roughly every hundred thousand years due to these orbital shifts, but such changes have occurred over the span of several centuries. Today's changes have taken place over the past hundred years or less.
• Other recent research has suggested that the effects of variations in the sun's output are "negligible" as a factor in warming, but other, more complicated solar mechanisms could possibly play a role.
What's Going to Happen?
A follow-up report by the IPCC released in April 2007 warned that global warming could lead to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on wildlife.
• Sea level could rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century's end, the IPCC's February 2007 report projects. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could flood many South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.
• Some hundred million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level, and much of the world's population is concentrated in vulnerable coastal cities. In the U.S., Louisiana and Florida are especially at risk.
• Glaciers around the world could melt, causing sea levels to rise while creating water shortages in regions dependent on runoff for fresh water.
• Strong hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and other natural disasters may become commonplace in many parts of the world. The growth of deserts may also cause food shortages in many places.
• More than a million species face extinction from disappearing habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.
• The ocean's circulation system, known as the ocean conveyor belt, could be permanently altered, causing a mini-ice age in Western Europe and other rapid changes.
• At some point in the future, warming could become uncontrollable by creating a so-called positive feedback effect. Rising temperatures could release additional greenhouse gases by unlocking methane in permafrost and undersea deposits, freeing carbon trapped in sea ice, and causing increased evaporation of wat
Thats 2500 scientist over 130 counties.
But no, let's believe the neocons or corps who want to keep us asleep and use ignorance, like yours, to get their lies across.
It's not personal but you share this planet with me, and my kids, and I think it's outrageous in a time like this, to keep debating about 'are we doing it or not'. It's clear that we are doing it and it's also clear that some powers that be, don't want it to be clear. For the same reasons that these powers didn't want us to believe that the earth was actually not flat, not so far away in history.
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BTW the 3 people that voted that they don't believe in global warming should refrain from smoking during the day because you have obviously not understood or read, the poll at all.
Hint: global warming is a fact.