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Arctic Sea Level Falling?
HRH King Lerxst with a link to BBC News' report that "Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year — a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters. ... It is well known that the world's oceans do not share a uniform height; but even so, the scientists are somewhat puzzled by their results."
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OK. You're asking the wrong question. Global Warming isn't a thing that may or may not exist. It's a phenomenon, whose occurrance is already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. The question (which isn't really a question) is, is it happening here and now?
The "already proven" part of GW, the statement that greenhouse gases trap heat and cause a feedback cycle that leads a climate system as a whole to run away to some higher temperature is in stark and indisputable evidence on the nearby planet Venus. It's more than just being closer to the Sun -- even on the night side of Venus, where night lasts for months, it's 800 degrees plus.
The question is, are we in danger of modestly displacing our own climate in the here and now? And the answer (except from a few paid shills, who I suspect the parent article is one of) is a resounding yes.
Personally, I've never cared much about this 'Global Warming' because even the alarmists (like Greenpeace and Gore) give incredibly non-frightening information. They say we're warming up at an unprecedented level, but the worst figures I've seen say we've increase one degree Fahrenheit in the last two-hundred years.
That's because you don't understand what you're talking about. Your credibility on this issue is plumetting already. Global temperatures don't fluctuate very rapidly. When they do, we observe in the historical record coincident events like mass extinctions.
But the biggest problem in proving 'Global Warming' is not conflicting evidence like this article. It's not the fact that the same theories and reasoning and 'researchers' told us that we were headed for an ice-age thirty years ago.
Please, since you're so well-read, can we see what articles you're talking about? Get dates on them, too.
Even if you do, however, it's irrelevant. Science changes because we learn more. Thirty years ago, we did not understand certain things. That we didn't then and do now, and that our understanding of thirty years ago conflicts with our understanding of now does not mean there's a mutual equivalence of doubt. Something like five times the amount of scientific information has been gathered by the human species in the last thirty years than had been gathered in all of human history previous. I believe our most recent recorded rate of information doubling was every seven years. Is that too complicated for you to understand?
It's the fact that even non-scientifically minded people can poke holes in the alarmists' theories. 'Global Warming is caused by humans' - how? How do we know that? Do cars give off a unique chemical that we can see directly makes the Earth warmer?
It's amazing how stupid people can be. Look up carbon dioxide.
Warming has caused more natural disasters than any previous year and it will only get worse' - really? I don't see how one degree could possibly cause more hurricanes, I mean, perhaps there are other causes to such a development. 'Global Warming will destroy civilisation' - uh, perhaps not Nervous Joe.
So, you're not dealing with Katrina refugees, I see. Must be nice to be wherever you are, Smartass Pollyanna. I'm not bothering you with a fact-based explanation of how warmer water increases hurricane energy because you plainly aren't intelligent enough to understand it, because if you were you'd have absorbed it at least once during the thousands of times that explanation has been published in the last year or so.
Anyone, anyone, looking even half logically at this 'Global Warming' hype can see through it.
I'm starting to suspect, as I see right through you, that you're a shill trying to pump brain-dead talking points into the conversation. I'll be happy to match my logical wits against yours any time. Be prepared to be logically beaten to a rhetorical pulp.
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