RE: We've Known About Climate Change for 53 years now.
February 13, 2011 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2011 at 12:03 pm by HeyItsZeus.)
(February 13, 2011 at 11:04 am)Tiberius Wrote:(February 13, 2011 at 9:18 am)HeyItsZeus Wrote: So we all understand that renewable energy is the way to go?I'm not so sure we "all" understand it. I understand it; I can't speak for anything else.
Quote:And also... does your skepticism on human caused climate change have anything to do with you being a conservative?No...for two reasons:
1) I'm not a conservative, I'm a Libertarian. Big difference.
2) I believe that political leanings should have no bearing on the truth. The truth is what it is; politics only comes into it when deciding what nations should do about the truth.
I've been at university for 3 years, and during those 3 years I've met numerous people on both sides of the debate. The skeptics are the ones who have the evidence, and thus are the ones I trust more (especially after the climategate scandals last year). If you think you have evidence that humans are causing global warming, present it, rather than complaining about conspiracy theories or making red herrings out of my position.
Fair enough:
http://www.climatepath.org/aboutus/science
Fossil fuel and agriculture have drastically increased greenhouse gasses (GHG).
"Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years. The global increases in carbon dioxide concentration are due primarily to fossil fuel use and land use change, while those of methane and nitrous oxide are primarily due to agriculture. The IPCC has a very high confidence (representing at least a 9 out of 10 chance of being correct) in this conclusion." An IPCC chart showing the increase in these gasses is available here .
Here's another article: http://www.physorg.com/news122655339.html
There are more articles that are published by scientists, climatologists, etc... that may prove a point. And I know very little about libertarianism: please educate me, oh scholarly university student.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.