Posted on 12/12/2009 12:28:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Don't be fooled about climate science. In April 1994 – long after scientists had clearly demonstrated the addictive quality and devastating health impacts of cigarette smoking – seven chief executives of major tobacco companies denied the evidence, swearing in a US congressional hearing that nicotine was not addictive.
Now, the American public is again being subjected to those kinds of denials, this time about global climate change. While former Alaska governor Sarah Palin wrote in her recent opinion essay that she did not deny the "reality of some changes in climate," she distorted the clear scientific evidence that Earth's climate is changing, largely as a result of human behaviours. She also badly confused the concepts of daily weather changes and long-term climate trends when she wrote that "while we recognise the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes." Her statement inaccurately suggests that short-term weather fluctuations must be consistent with long-term climate patterns. And it is the long-term patterns that are a cause for concern.
Climate-change science is clear: the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide – derived mostly from the human activities of fossil-fuel burning and deforestation – stands at 389 parts per million (ppm). We know from studying ancient Antarctic ice cores that this concentration is higher than it has been for at least the past 650,000 years. Exhaustive measurements tell us that atmospheric carbon dioxide is rising by two ppm every year and that the global temperature has increased by about 1.1 degrees fahrenheit over the past century. Multiple lines of other evidence, including reliable thermometer readings since the 1880s, reveal a clear warming trend. The broader impacts of climate change range from rapidly melting glaciers and rising sea levels to shifts in species ranges.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
C4P already destroyed this article.
Do these libtarsds not know that climate is simply the average of weather over a period of time for a given location? If the weather changes over time, then guess what, so does the climate. Weather drives the climate, not the other way away.
Libtards are morons.
Poor lefties, can’t stand the fact that their global warming BS has turned into nothing more then just a bunch of BS
away = around.
Opps...
This idiot is a Global Warming Hoax denier.
The notion that carbon dioxide is causing a warming trend is still speculative.
This isn't an argument that will convince anyone. Other than, perhaps, the low-ranking galley slaves still remaining below decks, who are beginning to notice that a good number of their fellow-rowers have deserted their positions, and the slave-driver who used to call the stroke seems to have taken a powder as well.
Exactly!
Confabulation.
Coincidence proves cause and effect. Not.
Coincidence disproves reversed cause and effect. Not
Demonization.
Ridicule.
Alan Leshner brilliantly deploys the tools of the scientific method.
What a stupid argument. This has nothing to do with anything. This is kind of like starting an article talking about NAZI's.
I don't know how they define "addictive" now days, but back then caffeine and nicotine were not addictive according to the definition at the time.
The big lie about smoking and second hand smoke continues to this day.
I don't think global warning will ever go away. These people will stick to the lie and little by little convince average people and the children that it is true, just like they did with smoking.
We are doomed to be under the control of anti-smoking and global warming brainwashed dictators.
Looks like the poster of the article intentionally used “Ass” as an abbreviation for association. It sure fits with the author of the Palin bashing article, doesn’t it?
LOL!!!!
“C4P already destroyed this article.”
And very well, too! Read the idiocy in the Guardian reply section- they are bursting with Palin hatred. There has got to be something in the water over there! They ought to worry more abut getting flooded by Islamofascists than by melting glaciers;)
Do you mean oops?
Those ice-cores, they can be used not only to measure the atmospheric carbon dioxide in ages gone by, but also ancient temperatures. Let's have a look at what they say - once again that fantastic web-site of Anthony Watts, Watts Up With That, tells the story:
Our unprecedented global warming
Phhhhttt.
On the other hand, it is very much in the interest of global warming proponents to push this, even if it is a lie.
LOL!!! You got me!!!
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