but then when I go away for a while you start declaring you proved it?
LIARS!
2007-06-05 11:57:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Bunch of people huddled together and decided to just declare victory - doesn't make it so.
2007-06-05 12:19:20 · update #1
It's been warmer than today when CO2 levels were lower. FACT.
The increase of CO2 in the last 200 years has been less than 1/11,000th of the atmosphere. FACT.
If you go to the dump and fart, on some level you added to the bad smell, but not materially.
2007-06-05 14:13:23 · update #2
Contrary to Bob, I would still say that it's not proven, but it's also still exceedingly likely that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming. It's basically an issue of semantics, because the evidence is so strong as to basically prove it, so it simply depends on your definiton of "proof".
2007-06-05 12:20:22 · answer #1 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Few things in science can be absolutely proven (evolution being an interesting exception), and one must often be content with persuasive evidence, because that is all one can get. But such evidence can be quite enough to draw useful conclusions, as long as you bear in mind that even conclusive evidence can sometimes be wrong. Such was the case with Newtonian mechanics, which worked splendidly for three hundred years -- until Michelson and Morley discovered a case where it didn't. (That was the germ of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.)
2007-06-05 19:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anthropogenic processes produce greenhouse gases - FACT
Levels of atmospheric GHG's higher than any time that mankind has been on the planet - FACT
Greenhouse gases retain heat within Earth's atmosphere - FACT
It's not difficult to put two and two together.
If you're unable to accept the simple science then the onus is on you to prove that either a) greenhouse gases do not retain heat, b) humans activities do not produce GHG's or c) GHG levels are not rising. Option d is that no matter what anyone says or does you've decided that AGW is false and because you've decided it then it has to be true.
2007-06-05 20:57:58 · answer #3 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well of course it isn't =proven=. No scientific theory can be. What we have instead is a lot of very strong evidence suggesting that it is the best theory yet devised to explain the observed phenomenon -namely, global warming.
2007-06-05 20:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You can't prove global warming in a short post here, anymore than you can prove quantum mechanics in a short proof here.
But man made global warming is now proven.
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
150 authors, 600 reviewers, over 1000 references to the scientific literature.
The scientific community accepts that it's been proven:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
Why should a very few skeptics with no good data be worth more than that?
2007-06-05 19:13:48 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I got proof!
Look on the bottom of a Cracker Jack box, it's there...
Proof of purchase that is, lol.
What are you talking about?
2007-06-05 20:22:04 · answer #6 · answered by Serena 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
2007-06-05 23:15:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Please get help, you sound really paranoid.
2007-06-05 19:11:59 · answer #8 · answered by joe s 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋