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2011 Was the 9th Hottest Year On Record
The Bad Astronomer writes "Last year was the 9th hottest year out of the past 130, according to NASA and the NOAA. That's no coincidence: nine out of the ten hottest years on record have been since the year 2000. It's long past time to face facts: the Earth is getting hotter, and to deny it is an exercise in fantasy."
So how come it is humans warming up the planet when the planet not only has been warmer in the past without humans, but has done so in the last 10,000 years before humans even had domesticated animals.
This is an /empirical/ question that has already been answered very robustly. Go read a journal article about it, instead of the lame ass "is was warming in the past" bullshit. It is such a stupid argument.
Put some water in a pot, and leave it in the sun. Now put it in a cool room for a few hours. Now put it on the stove, and claim that the water was warmer in the past, so the warming is natural.
That is how stupid you are.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
Oh please. Go read the IPCC if you want a rational argument. Point about denial, is that no information penetrates, so you may as well abuse them. Say, you're not one of those idiots are you?
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
No, it is not improbably, in fact, it's likely.
I would like to point out that many model predict an increase in ran; however that's not the end.
"...eed to induce fear to motivate funding"
err, no. Facts are causing fear.
" to justify the additional bureaucratic power that they crave."
and there we fucking go with THAT canard. HINT JACKASS: looking at AGW global warming does not mean addition bureaucratic power. That is a policy issue, not a science issue. Insurance companies and actual rials are already making the needed changes in their industries, addition bureaucratic power not needed.
Companies that are impacting everyone and wont change? yes, bureaucratic power will be need, but I don't see why we can't do it with the current systems.
Fucking philosopher waste. Don't bother to understand science, and when you don't like something you just say it ain't so without bothering to learn. This is why modern philosophy is a dead end. You can gather knowledge, but you can never achieve anything or learn how to think about it.
Why do you, someone not educated in the field, someone who is pretty ignorant about advance science, someone who chose to get a degree that adds nothing to the world, why do YOU think you have the mental tools to claim the consensus of experts in a field are wrong?
This is literally like me telling you Plato never existed.
http://ncse.com/climate
http://ncse.com/climate/climate-change-101
http://ncse.com/climate/denial
http://ncse.com/climate/denial/pillars
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
There is, however, only one type of AGW alarmist such as yourself;
1) ASSHOLE.
Seriously getting tired of the sheer amount of AGW Chicken Little's there are on Slashdot.
no one will be able to enforce a ban on burning. You'd need a genuine world government and literally millions of patrolling death squads to enforce such a ban.
Yes. That's what the ones who claim mankind is the cause of the warming want.