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Global Warming Has Made the North Greener
New submitter ceview writes "NASA has released its latest green data showing a creeping of green towards the northern hemisphere. From the article: 'Results show temperature and vegetation growth at northern latitudes now resemble those found 4 degrees to 6 degrees of latitude farther south as recently as 1982.'"
I'm arguing that the evidence that warming was occurring was not that strong until the late 1990s.
Really? Can you describe that evidence? In detail please.
It has leveled off since then but looking back at the last 100 yrs of records it looks like we should expect a couple decades of warming followed by a few of stability.
It sounds like you are claiming that temperature records are the primary evidence of climate change, which means you don't know the first thing about it. Also it sounds like you think the temperature has stabilised - you are, plainly, and transparently wrong, about that as well. Did you think we couldn't find the data for ourselves?
The attitude I observe on slashdot is that it was wrong to ever be skeptical of this trend. This is unscientific.
You apparently can't tell the difference between people who call themselves skeptical and people who are skeptical.
Surprisingly, declaring yourself to be the King of England does actually make you the King of England - I know! Shocking isn't it? Instead you need, in fact, solid evidence to make a solid claim, or you will simply not be heard. The same applies with climate change skepticism - we have people who like to claim the crown, but sadly, no evidence at all to bolster their claims to genuine skepticism. Instead, we find profound ignorance of the basics of climate science - ignorance is not skepticism.