DOH!! Causes of Calif. drought natural, not man-made: NOAA (global warming, school, state)
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I want to be on the AGW side now. December is projected to be slightly above normal temp for my state. First time that's happened in over 5 years. So now I'm a Global Warmer.
I find it really hard to take you people seriously when you seem to frame the debate as 'natural vs manmade'. Obviously, there are natural 'buffers' as well as natural weather patterns and natural climate drivers. The only people who are denying these are the ones AGW deniers have made up in their minds.
Even if California's drought isn't 100% caused by humans, it still doesn't mean AGW isn't real, it just means that maybe it isn't 100% to blame in this case.
I'm not sure how you can separate natural from manmade in the first place... if AGW is making the whole planet warmer, then it seems to me that the whole planet and all of its natural cycles are going to be affected in some way.
I find it really hard to take you people seriously when you seem to frame the debate as 'natural vs manmade'. Obviously, there are natural 'buffers' as well as natural weather patterns and natural climate drivers. The only people who are denying these are the ones AGW deniers have made up in their minds.
Even if California's drought isn't 100% caused by humans, it still doesn't mean AGW isn't real, it just means that maybe it isn't 100% to blame in this case.
I'm not sure how you can separate natural from manmade in the first place... if AGW is making the whole planet warmer, then it seems to me that the whole planet and all of its natural cycles are going to be affected in some way.
That is if the THEORY is founded on fact and not the fiction that is continually pushed by this so called science. I believe the scientists think they are on to something here, but it's so far over their heads they cannot understand 10% of the data they are collecting. CO2 in the atmosphere causes warming is a theory and nothing more.
There has been many times the PPM of CO2 in the atmosphere during ice ages in the past. It's right in the ice core samples but they don't want to talk about that. I wonder why?
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