Not exact matches
Numerous denier
arguments involving slight fluctuations in the
global distribution of
warmer vs cooler sea surface areas as supposed explanations of climate change neglect all the energy that goes into ocean heat content, melting
large ice deposits and so forth.
The physics
argument seems simply that (1) past climates have been very different from today (true); (2) the changes are
large compared to what we see from
global warming, or expect to see, anytime soon (true).
We will at some point post something on the climate / hurricane
arguments, but a basic fact is that there is a huge difference between claiming that
global warming trends will tend, statistically, to lead to more /
larger hurricanes, and attributing specific events in specific years to such causes.
If
global warming is a vital issue, and if ExxonMobil is one of the
largest companies on the planet, there is no credible
argument that such a story wouldn't be very important.
Curry's main and most flawed
argument was that information in the latest IPCC report should decrease our confidence in human - caused
global warming; an
argument she based in
large part on the supposed
global warming «pause», which is itself a fictional creation.
For «skeptics» to make a convincing
argument that humans are not causing
global warming, they must both explain where this
large greenhouse gas radiative forcing has gone, and find an even
larger «natural» radiative forcing which nobody has yet identified.
Kim Dabelstein Petersen is a Wikipedia «editor» who seems to devote a
large part of his life to editing reams and reams of Wikipedia pages to pump the assertions of
global -
warming alarmists and deprecate or make disappear the
arguments of skeptics.
I'm currently engaged in an
argument with someone about
global warming and while I know this exists, despite a
large amount of google searching, I can't find a peer - reviewed paper that (quoting other party here, excuse the obvious baiting):» 1.
I am aware of people making the
argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to
global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of
global warming, and I make that
argument myself (because even a quite
large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).