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Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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It's horrible how climate change is now a religion not a science. "Deniers and believers".

You could say the same about evolution; there are plenty of deniers there! But one side is much more responsible for turning into a religious issue than the other.

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Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Well-established scientific theories have long had deniers. That did not make them not science.

Climate sensitivity is far from "well-established" science.

Shoot, I didn't know. Someone should tell the climate scientists.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Okay? Why even bring this up unless trying to cast a disparaging light onto global warming? You are, in fact, denying human caused global warming in your last comment, "I'm just saying that correlation does not equal causation." Every time I see this argument it's usually the first statement in the 'human's aren't really causing global warming, so we shouldn't try to fix it' circle-jerk. What is the worst thing that…

It's horrible how climate change is now a religion not a science. "Deniers and believers".

I'm a little confused about the anti-GMO folks who believe in climate change since the science argument applies to both but they only believe it in one case.

// I'm in the only way to stop current energy generation techniques is to invent something cheaper than gas and coal. Anything else won't stop the upcoming economies (e.g. China) from using gas and coal no matter how they pollute.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial. Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warm…

Okay? Why even bring this up unless trying to cast a disparaging light onto global warming? You are, in fact, denying human caused global warming in your last comment, "I'm just saying that correlation does not equal causation." Every time I see this argument it's usually the first statement in the 'human's aren't really causing global warming, so we shouldn't try to fix it' circle-jerk. What is the worst thing that…

man-made global warming is a joke. but if you like to try and keep the (always dynamic) climate in a near constant state, good luck. and feel good paying the tax.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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It's cold and snowing outside, and the 'climate change' alarmists are still going and going and going.

I was assuming that the climate change scam would go away with today's headlines, but maybe it will be like the Loch Ness monster -- forever some people still think it might be real.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial. Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warm…

>I'm not denying anthropogenic global warming, I'm just saying that correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

Sounds a whole lot like you're trying to cast doubt on it. There's as close to a scientific consensus as you're likely to ever get that the Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate, and we're the cause of it.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay? Why even bring this up unless trying to cast a disparaging light onto global warming? You are, in fact, denying human caused global warming in your last comment, "I'm just saying that correlation does not equal causation." Every time I see this argument it's usually the first statement in the 'human's aren't really causing global warming, so we shouldn't try to fix it' circle-jerk. What is the worst thing that…

It's horrible how climate change is now a religion not a science. "Deniers and believers".

there's a fine line. climate IS changing, has always been. but it's not caused by your farts.

http://youtu.be/YtevF4B4RtQ

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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I think that global warming is a positive phenomenon and we should try to accelerate it. Most people would prefer a to live in slightly warmer climate than they do now.

It doesn't work like that. It is not a nice, evenly spread warm breeze. It is rising oceans and extreme weather.

Don't think of it as an increase in warmth, think of it as increased pressure in a closed system.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial. Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warm…

>I'm not denying anthropogenic global warming, I'm just saying that correlation does not necessarily equal causation. Sounds a whole lot like you're trying to cast doubt on it. There's as close to a scientific consensus as you're likely to ever get that the Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate, and we're the cause of it.

Doubt is very good. Doubt is the foundation of science (the consensus used to be that the earth was flat). Not doubting is when something becomes faith or religion. I don't care what side the coin lands on, I only care that the methods used to predict the coin toss are sound.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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I think that global warming is a positive phenomenon and we should try to accelerate it. Most people would prefer a to live in slightly warmer climate than they do now.

It doesn't work like that. It is not a nice, evenly spread warm breeze. It is rising oceans and extreme weather. Don't think of it as an increase in warmth, think of it as increased pressure in a closed system.

> and extreme weather

Sounds like fun to me.

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