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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
The trouble with Al's flick is that he only shows you want he wants to. A melting glacier here.....but not the ones which are getting larger and deeper, for example. No, that would be an inconvenient truth indeed. This is such a scam, folks. Follow the money. Who is paying for the "research" claiming humans are the prime cause of global warming?
Global warming is natural. Most of the earth's recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Physical evidence shows 600 warming periods in the earth's last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments and layered cave stalagmites. Earth's temperatures follow variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records and cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. Cosmic rays vary the earth's temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. Global climate models can't accurately register cloud effects.
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Of course, there aren't exactly a large number of peer-reviewed scientific papers that support your claims. Could you tell us what reasearch you have done to arrive at your conclusions?
Turnabout being fair play at all times, just who is paying for your reseach?
BTW, if you want to play follow the money, it might be very interesting indeed to look into the extremely deep pockets of the fossil fuel lobby, who have huge amounts of money and a vested interest to protect! It would be hard indeed to any similar special interest group with deeper pockets or as long and deep a track record of environmental abuse.
Given how the greed for oil has perverted US foreign policy over the past decades, I am 100% for development of technology that will dramatically lessen our dependence on oil Not only will the earth's environment be improved, but we can stop sucking up to the despotic Saudi royals and other such regimes. Reduce the need for oil and you reduce the influence the perpetually fouled-up Middle East has on world affairs. Now that's a goal worth pursuing!