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I believe that man's activities affect the climate just the same as man's activities affect the environment and landscape (just look at the eyesore of our road and highway systems and cities covering the globe, then tell me we haven't affected the earth's environment).
However, I also believe that the climate has cycled since the planet first cooled from a molten ball of fire. And I believe that basing an entire branch of science on an under-sampled and contrived set of data is bad science--you cannot make a statement about many millions of years of climatology based on a hundred year's worth of data points. And I believe that those most involved in the "global warming" camp are opportunists engaging in a profiteering/control effort. IMO, it is a form of alchemy--making gold from climate fluctuations.
As a climatologist, I do. I wounder what everyone else thinks. Please provide evidence to you claim.
I don't "believe" in anthropogenic global warming. I'm tired of science being treated as if it were a religion or a magic show. I will state that peer reviewed research as published in the scientific literature incontrovertibly SHOWS that anthropogenic global warming is a valid phenomenon. However, I voted "yes" in your poll, anyhow.
If you are a climatologist, I don't need to start citing the papers for you. You've already read them and everyone else who is a climate skeptic would never dream of reading anything that was a factual account grounded in valid scientific data.
I suggest that the layperson who is concerned about the fate of our planet read James Hansen's Storms of my Grandchildren and/or Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything. Both books are highly readable accounts which are easily accessible by the layperson.
As a climatologist, I do. I wounder what everyone else thinks. Please provide evidence to you claim.
Why would an actual climatologist come here to debate with laymen who know next to nothing about the topic? ... and pose an ungrammatical, misspelled question?
What controlled and independent studies have been done that show man-made CO2 release causes global temperature inceases?
Simple physics. Anyone can confirm in a lab that CO2 is opaque to infrared while transparent to visible light. Sunlight warms the earth. The earth radiates infrared energy (blackbody radiation, also elementary physics). Adding more CO2 means less infrared can escape into space, trapping heat in the atmosphere.
We know that since the start of the industrial revolution that CO2 has increased by 40%. The physics I cited means it is impossible for the earth not to warm. And temperature records show a long-term trend in warming, confirming the theory.
Why would an actual climatologist come here to debate with laymen who know next to nothing about the topic? ... and pose an ungrammatical, misspelled question?
Maybe Mtnluver is concerned because the clock on global warming is about to strike midnight if it already hasn't done so, and s/he is trying to get people to understand that if we keep putting CO2 into the atmosphere at the current rate, our planet is in for devastating climate change?
Simple physics. Anyone can confirm in a lab that CO2 is opaque to infrared while transparent to visible light. Sunlight warms the earth. The earth radiates infrared energy (blackbody radiation, also elementary physics). Adding more CO2 means less infrared can escape into space, trapping heat in the atmosphere.
We know that since the start of the industrial revolution that CO2 has increased by 40%. The physics I cited means it is impossible for the earth not to warm. And temperature records show a long-term trend in warming, confirming the theory.
It's an open and shut case.
That's a "no" then? The earth hasn't warmed for the past two decades despite increasing CO2, which basically blows the theory right out of the water.
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