RE: Anthropogenic Climate Change
March 11, 2011 at 4:52 pm
(March 11, 2011 at 3:45 pm)theVOID Wrote: Oh wow, thanks for pointing that out Welsh Cake, I guess the vast majority of climate scientists completely forgot about that /sarcasm
You're always welcome VOID. ^^ May I also point out your argumentum ad populum and that scientific consensus is not by itself a scientific argument while I'm at it?
Quote:The body of evidence for anthropogenic climate change takes into account all of our best data on solar activity, the earth's eccentricities, cloud cover, aerosols in the atmosphere reflecting back short wavelength radiation into space, volcanic activity, the surface of the earth and the amount of long wave radiation that it reflects into the atmosphere that is blocked by carbon gasses, weather patterns, glacial conditions and there is STILL an otherwise unaccounted for increase in average global temperatures for which the best correlation we have is by far the steady increase of carbon gasses in the atmosphere.
Inadequate - Earth is 4.54 billion years, we've only had instrumental temperature recording since 1880, that's not enough sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis, maybe you have different standards of evidence, but I don't find that to be particularly convincing.
Quote:But of course if you had any actual familiarity with the case for anthropogenic climate change you would have already known that.
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But wait, it's CLEARLY a government conspiracy, right?
Except I'm not a conspiracist. Global warming provided the excuse needed for reducing the UK's dependence on coal by replacing it with nuclear power. If you kindly stop being presumptuous for just a minute a brief search into modern history and politics will reveal that bitch Margaret Thatcher and what her party did to the coal industry. Where I live, the south Wales valleys is a quite literally a "dump" because of her. We live on handouts from the European Union for fucks sake.
