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Re: Global warming debunked
Has anyone talked about how the whole global warming hypothesis has been accepted as a canard by the scientific community?
I have not accepted the global climate change aka. global warming theory as a canard. Let me explain why.
From a purely "common sense" point of view, when we consider how much carbon has been and will be released into the atmosphere(as a result of fossil fuel combustion ie. oil, gas, coal) in relation to the total volume of atmosphere the earth has, there is a significant increase of carbon mostly in the form of carbon dioxide. The increase is in full percentage points. Only a few percent but it doesn't take a lot to have an effect.
Carbon dioxide is a known greenhouse gas. That means there is more energy being trapped in the atmosphere than there was before the increase in carbon. That does not mean an instant or even a dramatic increase in temperatures but, it does mean there is more energy in the total atmosphere.
That extra energy is having and will continue to have a measurable effect on global weather systems ie. climate.
Also, the polar ice caps and glaciers are melting. The glacial melt rate is fast enough in some cases that it can be seen with the naked eye. This coincides with where one would expect to see temperature increase to have a noticable effect on a system, at the extremes.
Now consider that the earth should be in or heading into a cooling trend right now due to periodic changes in orbit and wobble around it's axis.
All of the above leads me to think there is probably something to the global climate change theory. Notice I use the word theory because the concept can be reproduced in a laboratory and computer models even if only on a smaller scale. For that matter just go visit a real greenhouse. It traps heat and gets hot. Also, it is a reasonable conclusion that the current weather conditions on Venus are a result of a thermal runaway greenhouse effect. So, it is a bit more than a simple hypothesis.
The only questions I have are how much and how fast. No scientist worth their salt will give you a definitive answer to that question because they don't know and will tell you so if you ask them.
Since we don't know how much of an effect we are having on global climate, and we will run out of oil within 50 years at the current consumption rate anyway, and much of the oil we currently consume comes from a part of the world that has been nothing but trouble for us, it seems to make sense to make other arrangements for meeting our energy needs. It is the conservative thing to do.
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