There used to be something called “The Scientific Method.”
Basically you would (1) observe some condition, (2) come up with a hypothesis to explain the condition, (3) come up with a way of testing your hypothesis, (4) test your hypothesis (either by a test or by further observations), and (5) either prove your hypothesis wrong or not prove it wrong. If your hypothesis survived sufficient testing without being proven wrong, then it would be accepted as true unless and until it was later proven wrong or someone comes up with a better hypothesis to explain the condition.
The key element of the scientific method is falsifiability or refutability, i.e., you must have a way to test your hypothesis and prove it wrong. A hypothesis that is incapable of being disproven is simply an unsupported belief.
With Global Climate Warming, that is now all out the window.
You (1) observe some condition (”Gee, it seems to be getting warmer”), (2) come up with a hypothesis to explain the condition (”carbon emitted by man is causing the world to get warmer”), (3) come up with a way of testing your hypothesis (”here are some computer models that show what is going to happen to the climate as we continue to release carbon”), (4) test your hypothesis (”every prediction in every model has been wrong”), and finally (5) declare “It is accepted science you heretics, so shut the frak up.”
Global Warming is the theory that can never be proven wrong. Is it warmer today then it was yesterday? It is proof of Global Warming. Is it colder today then it was yesterday? It is proof of Global Warming. Is it wetter? Dryer? Cloudier? Less Cloudy? Windier? Less Windy? It doesn’t matter! No matter what the weather happens to be, it is because of Global Warming.
[[You (1) observe some condition (”Gee, it seems to be getting warmer”), (2) come up with a hypothesis to explain the condition (”carbon emitted by man is causing the world to get warmer”), (3) come up with a way of testing your hypothesis (”here are some computer models that show what is going to happen to the climate as we continue to release carbon”), ]]
Except that they did NOT test whether CO2 was actually the cause of warmer whether- they simply threw in another hypothesis as their ‘test results’ IE: CO2 captures heat and back radiates it and releases it back from whence it came, and declared that ‘since CO2 captures and releases heat via a mechanism of back radiation, then it must be concluded that an increase in CO2 In our atmosphere is causing climate change (But note they carefully IGNORE the FACT that yep- there has been a slight increase, but man’s contribution is only 0.00137%, and ALL CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere- they make no attempt to describe how such small amounts are causing climate change, they simply make the definitive statement “Man is almost entirely responsible for climate change”)
That’s how their climate science works these days- “Cause and effect” ie: Cows fart, cow farts contain methane, methane traps heat, therefore Cows are causing climate change (But they do NOT tell you what percent of methane I in atmosphere because they would be embarrassed to show the truth, as I nthe following ridiculous claim)
[[A cow does on overage release between 70 and 120 kg of Methane per year. Methane is a greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide (CO2). But the negative effect on the climate of Methane is 23 times higher than the effect of CO2. Therefore the release of about 100 kg Methane per year for each cow is equivalent to about 2’300 kg CO2 per year.
Let’s compare this value of 2’300 kg CO2: The same amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) is generated by burning 1’000 liters of petrol. With a car using 8 liters of petrol per 100 km, you could drive 12’500 km per year (7’800 miles per year).
World-wide, there are about 1.5 billion cows and bulls. All ruminants (animals which regurgitates food and re-chews it) on the world emit about two billion metric tons of CO2-equivalents per year. In addition, clearing of tropical forests and rain forests to get more grazing land and farm land is responsible for an extra 2.8 billion metric tons of CO2 emission per year! ]]
http://www.timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-meat-methane-CO2
Note that they do NOT tell you the actual percent In atmosphere- they just estimate how many metric tons are produced- which is meaningless because we don’t know the context - 2.8 billion tons as compared to how many billion tons of atmosphere?
Oh gee, that’s right, there are
[[The total mass of Earth’s atmosphere is about 5.5 quadrillion tons,]]
http://blogs.britannica.com/2012/01/how-much-does-earth-atmosphere-weigh/
I’m not good at math- but I’m betting 3 billion is a very small percent of 6 quadrillion- perhaps someone can help me with what the % is?