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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
Gayle, if you want to check out growing glaciers, check www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm which has a partial worldwide list. I am sure there are other sites as well. I also like to check in on www.climateaudit.org from time to time. It's a site for professionals and it can get quite techno-geeky, however, I find it very interesting. |
Folks, don't ever believe for an instant that a deliberately skewed set of scattered instances, such as those mentioned at the first link above, necessarily represent the truth. That would be like looking at the headlline about last week's big lottery winner and making the decision to invest all of your savings in lottery tickets. While you might win, it is far more probable that you will not.
Let's examine some information on what the scientific community is saying, because the truth is that there are virtually zero peer-reviewed articles that refute global warming. Consider this quite from a well-repected scientific site, the publishers of the journal "Science": "Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position. Admittedly, authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However,
none of these papers argued that point." (Emphasis added) Here is the link to the full article:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten.../306/5702/1686
"She analyzed 1,000 research papers on climate change selected randomly from those published between 1993 and 2003. The results were surprising: Not a single study explicitly rejected the idea that people are warming the planet." From
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...obewarm11.html
Question - if mankind is not one of the causes of global warming, why is there no body of peer-reviewed scientific papers that attempt to refute the prevailing view?
BTW, here is a really fun link that debunks bullseyebarb's claim that scientists were predicting an ice age in the 1970s!
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94
Want to debunk more of the usual misleading claims by the folks who wnat to keep their heads in the sand? "Global Warming Sceptic Bingo"
Just click on the "#' symbol next to your favorite anti-golbal-warming myth!
http://timlambert.org/2005/04/gwsbingo/ Hilarious, on target, and funny as well!
Even President Bush, at the most recent G8 meeting, agrees that man is a cause of global warming. But....not our own bullseyebarb, who seems to think that is some secret conspiracy that encompasses virtually the entire peer-reviewed scientific community. Well, everyone is entitled to an opinion!
BTW, bullseyebarb, just who are those "other forces in play" you mention? The Masons? Illuminati? The Warren Commission? Who do you think is leading the mass conspiracy that you allege? I'm really curious!