nationalpost.com— As the United Nations' Copenhagen global warming catastrophe fades from memory, its emaciated remains quietly bulldozed into the freezing blue Danske harbour, public opinion had few places to go.
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"The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one since records began in 1850, the World Meteorological Organization reported [on December 8, 2009]. The new data also indicate that 2009 was also the fifth-warmest year on record. The period from 2000 through 2009 has been “warmer than the 1990s, which were warmer than the 1980s and so on,” said Michel Jarraud, the head of the international weather agency."<a class="user" href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1619588.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1619 ...</a>"The Bureau of Meteorology says figures showing Australia has experienced its hottest decade since records began in 1910 are clear evidence of climate change.... Climatologist David Jones says each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the previous one. 'There's no doubt about global warming, the planet's been warming now for most of the last century. Occasionally it takes a breather ... But we're getting these increasingly warm temperatures - not just for Australia but globally - and climate change, global warming is clearly continuing.'"<a class="user" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/05/2785653.htm?section=australia" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/05/2785 ...</a>
Scientific American: 7 Myths Perpetuated by Climate Change Deniers:Claim 1: Anthropogenic CO2 can't be changing climate, because CO2 is only a trace gas in the atmosphere and the amount produced by humans is dwarfed by the amount from volcanoes and other natural sources. Water vapor is by far the most important greenhouse gas, so changes in CO2 are irrelevant.Claim 2: The alleged "hockey stick" graph of temperatures over the past 1,600 years has been disproved. It doesn't even acknowledge the existence of a "medieval warm period" around 1000 A.D. that was hotter than today is. Therefore, global warming is a myth.Claim 3: Global warming stopped a decade ago; the earth has been cooling since then.Claim 4: The sun or cosmic rays are much more likely to be the real causes of global warming. After all, Mars is warming up, too.Claim 5: Climatologists conspire to hide the truth about global warming by locking away their data. Their so-called "consensus" on global warming is scientifically irrelevant because science isn't settled by popularity.Claim 6: Climatologists have a vested interest in raising the alarm because it brings them money and prestige.Claim 7: Technological fixes, such as inventing energy sources that don't produce CO2 or geoengineering the climate, would be more affordable, prudent ways to address climate change than reducing our carbon footprint.All throughly debunked and documented by Scientific American, here: <a class="user" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seven-answers-to-climate-contrarian-nonsense" rel="nofollow">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=s ...</a>
rentalcanoeJan 8, 2010
"The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one since records began in 1850, the World Meteorological Organization reported [on December 8, 2009]. The new data also indicate that 2009 was also the fifth-warmest year on record. The period from 2000 through 2009 has been “warmer than the 1990s, which were warmer than the 1980s and so on,” said Michel Jarraud, the head of the international weather agency."<a class="user" href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1619588.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1619 ...</a>"The Bureau of Meteorology says figures showing Australia has experienced its hottest decade since records began in 1910 are clear evidence of climate change.... Climatologist David Jones says each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the previous one. 'There's no doubt about global warming, the planet's been warming now for most of the last century. Occasionally it takes a breather ... But we're getting these increasingly warm temperatures - not just for Australia but globally - and climate change, global warming is clearly continuing.'"<a class="user" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/05/2785653.htm?section=australia" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/05/2785 ...</a>
xman8Jan 8, 2010
You forgot (/s) after your comment!
rentalcanoeJan 8, 2010
Scientific American: 7 Myths Perpetuated by Climate Change Deniers:Claim 1: Anthropogenic CO2 can't be changing climate, because CO2 is only a trace gas in the atmosphere and the amount produced by humans is dwarfed by the amount from volcanoes and other natural sources. Water vapor is by far the most important greenhouse gas, so changes in CO2 are irrelevant.Claim 2: The alleged "hockey stick" graph of temperatures over the past 1,600 years has been disproved. It doesn't even acknowledge the existence of a "medieval warm period" around 1000 A.D. that was hotter than today is. Therefore, global warming is a myth.Claim 3: Global warming stopped a decade ago; the earth has been cooling since then.Claim 4: The sun or cosmic rays are much more likely to be the real causes of global warming. After all, Mars is warming up, too.Claim 5: Climatologists conspire to hide the truth about global warming by locking away their data. Their so-called "consensus" on global warming is scientifically irrelevant because science isn't settled by popularity.Claim 6: Climatologists have a vested interest in raising the alarm because it brings them money and prestige.Claim 7: Technological fixes, such as inventing energy sources that don't produce CO2 or geoengineering the climate, would be more affordable, prudent ways to address climate change than reducing our carbon footprint.All throughly debunked and documented by Scientific American, here: <a class="user" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seven-answers-to-climate-contrarian-nonsense" rel="nofollow">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=s ...</a>
rentalcanoeJan 8, 2010
You're right. It would mean /science.