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Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend
New submitter sosume writes "An article in Nature shows that temperatures in Roman times were actually higher than current temperatures. A team lead by Dr. Esper of the University of Mainz has researched tree rings and concluded that over the past 2,000 years, the forcing is up to four times as large as the 1.6W/m^2 net anthropogenic forcing since 1750 using evidence based on maximum latewood density data from northern Scandinavia, indicating that this cooling trend was stronger (0.31C per 1,000 years, ±0.03C) than previously reported, and demonstrated that this signature is missing in published tree-ring proxy records."
snark- Now I can continue raping the planet and dumping all kinds of crap into the atmosphere and not worry about that global warming nonsense. And the corn failure in the USA - no biggie. And the retreating glaciers? whatevs. /snark
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Clearly whoever did this study is a racist.
close, it's 'Nazis'. They call them 'warming deniers' and try to draw inferences to 'holocaust deniers' who are typically neonazis.
It doesn't even fit in to a neat logical fallacy category since those generally deal with strategies above the playground level. Fine, racist nazis, then.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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Tree hugger luddites sing same old tune; Losing my religion.
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No, the burden of proof is on the climate skeptics to prove that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, or that CO2 is not increasing, or that man is not causing the increase.
Any sufficiently unpopular but cohesive argument is indistinguishable from trolling.
Hurry. Blame global warming before the deniers get any ideas!
Oh wait, we've been doing that since like 2004 already.
What if global cooling is actually causing global warming which is cooling the globe?
Actually, it seems that frequently, "man made global warming" is frequently code for "this is total bullshit that we're making up so we can get some venture capitalists and world governments to give us a lot of money so we can embezzle it and/or keep our grants going".
You must gather your party before venturing forth.
The "skeptics", who are not the slightest bit skeptical, but rather politically motivated liars driven by a couple of think tanks, raise the hypothesis that the current best explanation of climate dynamics is false. However, they do not and have never presented any alternate model, not to speak of any alternate data that could, for a real skeptic, serve to disprove the current scientific understanding. That is not skepticism, that is sheer crackpot tactics.
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