Franktalk wrote:
Yes, man made global warming.
Apparently you do not know the meaning of "fringe theory".
The climate science you reject on the basis the political company you keep is
main steam science.
Despite what has become received wisdom among the know-nothings, the science of global warming is more solid than ever. Latest news includes, oil company funded research done by Richard A. Muller's group which ironically reaffirmed the science despite the hope that they were going to debunk it. Muller is no longer a skeptic.
See here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/1 ... 94966.htmlThe earth heats up and cools down all of the time.
Of course it does. So what? Are you really thinking on such a childish and uninformed level?
There are known warming and cooling cycles that have to do with the periodic variations of the motion of and orientation of the earth in the solar system.
These are known and accounted for. The climate change that we see since the introduction of large scale burning of fossil fuels is an effect
superimposed on top of that.
To say that man is the primary cause is silly.
No it isn't. Given the amount of new green house gases we introduce into the atmosphere, it would be a great puzzle if it didn't have an effect.
As usual, you don't know what you are talking about. Stop getting your science from FOX news and internet blogs.
Yes, the ice age prediction in the seventies.
This is a myth. Time magazine did a bad article back then suggesting this at a time we didn't yet have a well developed science on the subject. But even then,
most scientific papers by a factor of 4 were predicting global warming over then next several hundred years. (Someone finally bothered to check the literature of the time). The idea that near term global cooling was what was being predicted in the 70s is false.
By the way, even now we know there will eventually be another ice age. It will happen in several thousand years on schedule unless other factors delay it. Climate scientists apparently aren't denying that. Periodic ice ages are still science but we are talking in thousands of years.
You aren't thinking carefully enough. There is what will happen over the next several hundred years. Then there is what will happen over the next several thousand years. Finally, there is what will happen over millions of years.
The average rise in global temperature is an effect super imposed on the normal cycles and if will have effects much sooner. In fact, "global warming" is an unfortunate term since it is actually possible that one of the effects of a rise in termperature will be a disruption of thermohaline circulation which could ironically lead to a dramatic cooling of northern Europe.
Climate change due to green house effects is the way we should describe it.
Yes, the population bomb that was supposed to be here already.
Did you get this idea from Saturdays Warrior?
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo