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Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report from The New York Times (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source): The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration. The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. It directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet who say that the human contribution to climate change is uncertain, and that the ability to predict the effects is limited. "Evidence for a changing climate abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans," a draft of the report states. A copy of it was obtained by The New York Times. The authors note that thousands of studies, conducted by tens of thousands of scientists, have documented climate changes on land and in the air. "Many lines of evidence demonstrate that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse (heat-trapping) gases, are primarily responsible for recent observed climate change," they wrote. The report was completed this year and is a special science section of the National Climate Assessment, which is congressionally mandated every four years. The National Academy of Sciences has signed off on the draft report, and the authors are awaiting permission from the Trump administration to release it. "The report concludes that even if humans immediately stopped emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world would still feel at least an additional 0.50 degrees Fahrenheit (0.30 degrees Celsius) of warming over this century compared with today," reports The New York Times. "The projected actual rise, scientists say, will be as much as 2 degrees Celsius." Given the Trump administration's stance on climate change, some of the scientists who worked on the report are concerned that the report will be suppressed.
The man is a stain.
Explain the temperature pause from 1998 to 2015. CO2 went from ~360ppm to ~405ppm - and the temperature was essentially flat. A 12% increase in CO2 - and no change in temperature. Prior to the 1990s, CO2 lagged temp. Now it leads it whilst the temp was basically flat. That would tend to indicate that CO2 is a byproduct at worst, and a very minor effect at best, of global temperature.
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The globe gets warmer and cooler and has since it formed, life goes on.
So prove that the current warming is natural.
Warming in the past was natural, right? And we just had a big pause from 1998 to 2015 (broken by the recent El Nino). You're the one claiming that man is causing warming, meaning it is incumbent upon YOU to make the proof. Absent proof of man's forcing of warming - we're left with only one conclusion: it's natural (it has to be either natural or man-made).
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In a criminal court — and humanity, the civilized world in particular, is on trial — it means exactly that.
Innocent until proven guilty, right? Until you can prove, my car is killing the life on planet, kindly keep the screeching to the confines of your safe space. Thank you.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Wrong. It is exactly that — a criminal accusation. People driving SUVs or eating beef are evil, because they are killing the planet . So, yeah, vast well-funded forces are making criminal accusations with punishment ranging from mandatory education for the ignorant to prison time for the worst offenders, who are committing the crimes against humanity.
Ah, a fecal metaphor, nice. Too bad, it does not help your argument in the slightest. For all the SAT-words in your vocabulary, you are still wrong — the Western world really is on trial, a criminal one, the fact you attempted to deny. Remember to logout.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
LOL UR WRONG NOT ME
EVERYONE AGREES, SO IT'S TRUE
Meanwhile the models have been completely wrong every single time
http://www.globalwarming.org/2...
So the theory has no proof, except for a bunch of insane liberals jacking eachother off with smug bullshit.
RECAP since you don't seem to have a fucking brain:
ALL THE MODELS ARE WRONG
THAT MEANS THE THEORY IS WRONG
IF GLOBAL WARMING WAS CAUSED BY HUMAN INDUCED CO2 EMISSIONS THE MODELS WOULDN'T BE COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG
retards
fallacious appeal to authority
what the fuck are you talking about god you're insanely rabid. What gives you the right to lecture, in your opinion? You make absolutely no sense. The man is commenting on public trust of science, what the literal FUCK are you talking about and why does every worthless shit comment you squirt out of your asshole and post here get modded up?
a topic for which you have no fucking qualifications whatsoever
fallacious appeal to authority
holy FUCK the irony, god you're a stupid sack of shit
Humans can survive in the vacuum of space, underwater aboard submarines, as well as in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. We grow almost enough food to feed the Earth's population in just a few hundred miles of the California Central Valley. And for over a half century we've had the ability to extract energy from the atom, which we not only use to provide limitless energy, but also place aboard ships, spacecraft, and more. You're telling me that an increase in surface temperature is going to make the Earth inhospitable for humans?
It's astounding to me how short sighted climate alarmists are. The only people who should be concerned about warming is land developers in Russia and Canada. There's a whole lot of Earth's surface which is about to become prime real estate for agriculture and growth.
Nononono
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED
You're a DENIER
How DARE you demand that climate scientists perform actual science?! Experimentation is hard! We have to rely on models that haven't predicted a damn fucking thing, ever! We HAVE to "adjust" the temperature data because they data is WRONG. We KNOW the data is wrong because it doesn't fit the model.
Woo hoo! Got the names being called, and denying facts, and saying "nuh uh". You're the perfect - PERFECT - characture of an AGW cultist... Praise be to the lords Mann and Algore!
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You apparently don't understand that the patterns where civilizations developed over the last 10000 years have radically shifted over the past 10000 years. Your ignorance of this fact alone illustrates how irrelevant climate change is to human civilization.
And how do you believe we are "seriously fucking that up"? Do you even understand what the effects of climate change are going to be? You don't add 2C uniformly to every temperature on the globe. Before you spread such FUD, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the facts.