This is for you Al Gore, Global Warming alarmists who I have been arguing against for some time now.?

Question

Please, for the love of everything true and practical, read this
http://epw.senate.gov/hearing_statements.cfm?id=246768

Well, that's not what I said was it?

jorganos, your answer is wordy but unfortunately, it's not much else. Jets as the most obvious influence of human activity on cloud cover? Cancer patients? A fine apples to oranges comparison.

Nobody said global warming isn't real. What's being said is that it's cyclic and we're not to blame. Furthermore, we alone can't fix it.

Answer 1

Yeah like Al Gore is on Yahoo answers answering questions!

Answer 2

That guy may be good at modelling nature, but I haven't seen any mention of the most obvious influence of human activity on cloud cover (on clear days, i.e. on days where there should be a maximum amount of heat radiated out): plane exhausts.

In the area where I live, there is a minimum cloud cover of about 5% only due to ice crystals formed by jet exhausts in extremely cold layers of air.

There could be an easy solution to minimize this effect: redirect the planes into warmer air layers, so that less ice crystals form. That isn't done (yet).

So, regardless of this individual's research hypothesis (to make it a theory, a bunch of peers need to criticize but accept it), cloud cover as a major factor for heat retention increases quite directly by human activities.

The question how much of the current warming trend is man-made isn't answered by this. However: when a patient is ailing, you don't usually keep feeding her unhealthy stuff, but try to cut on the unhealthy components.

Our planet has so far been treated like a lung cancer patient whose bed was moved into a smoker's vice attic. Reducing anthropogenic CO2 and CH4 (and reducing such exhausts from agriculture as well) cannot increase the speed of global warming, while keeping up the production of greenhouse gases has a potential to do so. Now what will be the wise action in that situation?


BTW: being alarmist about Global Warming (whatever its causes) is a survival trait for about 1/3rd of the human population of this planet, the people in the flooding (and hurricane) zones.

Oddly, this includes many voters who chose Bush over Gore.

Answer 3

There are a few fringe scientists who doubt global warming. The vast majority of scientists disagree with them.

I read your article. You should read this.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"Such statements suggest that there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This is not the case."

"Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect."

All scientific articles in peer reviewed journals that contained the words "climate change" from 1993-2003 were surveyed. 928 of them. The number of articles that said global warming was not happening.

Zero.

It isn't just Gore, the entire scientific community has reached a consensus. Global warming is real.

Answer 4

Good website. Found out yesterday that the State of California is suing the top 6 automakers in the US for damages caused by global warming.

I think that all Auto manufacturers should immediately stop selling cars in California. Just refuse to put on the "California Emissions" on the cars, then they cannot be sold. Safe them from running two different manufacturing lines, and it will shut up the idiots.

Power companies stopped selling power to California when they went through a similar situation with price controls and regulations. California's government had to change the laws quickly or be without power. Stop selling cars in California, and this idiotic lawsuit will go away just as fast.