Re: # 37 — «I think # 33 is
arguing against global warming (or is claiming the warming might be just an urban heat effect).»
I think # 33 is
arguing against global warming (or is claiming the warming might be just an urban heat effect).
Re: # 37 — «I think # 33 is
arguing against global warming (or is claiming the warming might be just an urban heat effect).»
If you want to label me a skeptic or claim that I «
argue against global warming,» then so be it, but I don't consider my position as such.
So, using GISP2 data to
argue against global warming is, well, stupid, or misguided, or misled, or something, but surely not scientifically sensible.
I actually watched a state legislator get up on the floor recently and
argue against a global warming bill for that reason.
None of
this argues against global warming.
Not exact matches
He features a video on his official Assembly website, in which he
argues against a bill to curb
global warming pollution, saying it would create a «burden» on businesses, and is better left to the federal government to regulate.
Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves
argue against the idea of anthropogenic
global warming, as you may have suggested.
Also, regarding the satellite measurements: they do not themselves
argue against the idea of anthropogenic
global warming, as you may have suggested.
Arguing against the alleged human activity's impact on
global warming is politically incorrect.
* My major point (in analogy to peak oil /
global warming) is that the issues
argue against each other.
The fact that the increase in damage cost is about as large as the increase in GDP (as recently
argued at FiveThirtyEight) is certainly no strong evidence
against an effect of
global warming on damage cost.
In a recent survey of over 2000 peer reviewed scientific papers on
global warming, the number which
argued against these three claims was zero.
It is not particularly surprising that they could not find one to
argue against the reality of carbon emissions - driven
global warming, but it still seems a bit of an unfair difference in stature to have the position backed up by corporate - sponsored pseudoscience be represented by a member of Congress,
against a man known primarily for shouting «science!»
In April 1998, Art Robinson and his organization the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, along with the Exxon - backed George C. Marshall Institute, co-published the infamous «Oregon Petition» claiming to have collected 17,000 signatories to a document
arguing against the realities of
global warming.
In a new screed
against a free exchange of ideas on climate change, «Earther» Brian Kahn
argues that those who question
global warming orthodoxy have no right to voice their opinions in public.
It's refreshing to see a figure from the left
arguing with such passion
against global warming orthodoxy.
Arguing for or
against what causes
global warming isn't particularly useful, let's focus on how to improve the human condition and standards of living, indeed living for future generations and work cooperatively with nature and each other, not mindlessly pollute and degrade or diminish what we have, often to gratify wants, not just needs.
At one point Pile
argues against my contention that his interpretation of «endorses
global warming» is incorrect because it makes the classification system unnecessarily inconsistent by simply asserting the classification system is inconsistent.
Global warming catastrophists in fact have to
argue against historical data, and say it is flawed in two ways: First, they
argue there are positive feedbacks in climate that will take hold in the future and accelerate
warming; and second, they
argue there are other anthropogenic effects, specifically sulphate aerosols, that are masking man - made
warming.
The Guardian: «Given that sea level has risen faster than predicted, if you're
arguing against the dangers posed by
global warming, sea level is a poor choice.»
Or Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, saying things like: «It's incredibly patronising and colonialistic to tell Africa that you can't develop because we're concerned about
global warming» — while
arguing that funding the fight
against global warming «takes money away from spending on malaria».
Since any increase in solar energy would heat both the lower and upper atmosphere, the observed drop in upper atmospheric temperatures in the past 30 years
argues against an increase in energy coming from the sun being responsible for
global warming.
Cohen tries to explain this away by
arguing that Exxon only funded such groups because they were
against the Kyoto Protocol (which it still firmly rejects) and not because they vehemently denied the existence of
global warming.
Though we would have voted for
global warming — it's a bit semantic, but we've always thought peak oil and
global warming have something of a cause and effect relationship, so it's a bit of apples and oranges here — it's tough to
argue against the pure volatility of an oil - thirsty world when the well starts to run dry.
Along with the Exxon - backed George C. Marshall Institute, Robinson's group co-published the infamous «Oregon Petition» claiming to have collected 17,000 signatories to a document
arguing against the realities of
global warming.