If you do not believe global warming is a threat have you ever looked for truth?

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If you do not believe global warming is a threat have you ever looked for truth?

Go to any search engine that you wish. Start with Yahoo since that is where you are.
Search for ice shelf starting with the year 1995 then keep increasing the year: you will see that new information keep coming out every couple of months some is about old events. Eventually you will discover that the information stops during the year 2004 there is some info from 2005 and 6 but it is reduced to very benign displays. I will tell you that many of the sites that were there that had more information started disappearing about 2004
Ice shelf 1995
Ice shelf 2000
Ice shelf 2002
There are still a few sites that come up on Widow.com that when you try to go there it has been removed.
One of these sites was cut off in mid sentence.
I have since found a few places with more recent information :
http://nsidc.org/research/projects.html on the left side of the page is more recent info.
John

Answer 1

My experience is that many global warming deniers don't want the truth. Take the points made above.

Yes, the climate has changed in the distant past. But we were in a relatively stable phase which made the advancement of our civilization possible. If we warm the planet we will cause changes which will be very damaging to our modern society. We can't live like nomads, and migrate to another place which is suitable.

Cooler than it was 200 years ago? Nonsense. Typical global warming denier bald assertion with no proof. And wrong. Proof of that here (10 different studies using different methodologies):

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison_png

Flat earth consensus? Scientists haven't believed the Earth was flat since Eratosthenes measured its' diameter thousands of years ago. They believe in the data. But many "skeptics" of science did ignore the data and believed in a flat Earth, just as many "skeptics" ignore the data and don't believe in global warming.

Answer 2

Not as difficult as it sounds - it really depends how you search.

I did uncover this tidbit:
The work of Carole Pudsey and her colleagues contributes to a growing body of literature that makes clear the idea that the greatest extent of the Larsen ice shelf during the current interglacial period occurred only a few hundred years ago. The ice shelves that have recently disintegrated were likely created at about that same time, meaning that previously they did not exist. The recurring conclusion is that the recent global warming may not be unprecedented, and that a significant portion of the warming may be natural.

The message here is that although images of glacial disintegration are alarming, events such as these may have happened with or without human contributions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Quite possibly, hundreds of years from now humans may be hearing about ice shelf growth on the Antarctic Peninsula and questioning what it is that their society has done to cause such a climate “anomaly.”

This is a review of Pudsey, C.J., Murray, J.W., Appleby, P., and Evans, J. 2006. Ice shelf history from
petrographic foraminiferal evidence, Northeast Antarctic Peninsula. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 2357-2379.

Answer 3

Why are you so selective with your data? Once the ice shelf measured 7,000 ft thick over New York City. It's been receding ever since. Should we work to restore the ice sheet to this position? What is "right"?

Warmest in the last 100 years? Sure, but cooler than it was 200 years ago.

Hurricanes on the increase during the last 30 years? Sure, but fewer than in the 1930's and '40's.

It all depends how you choose your data. Global warming is a science where the data is selected to fit the conclusion.

Even 'Truth" used altered graphics to get you to believe the premise. It's all a lie.

Answer 4

Whats this? some proof ? Perhaps Im a little hard to convince but the only thing this chart convinces me of is that maybe a chimp got ahold of some crayons.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/ima

Answer 5

That is the problem. Only the skeptics are searching for verifiable scientific proof. The fear-mongering, GW alarmists say the debate is over and the consensus is in instead of continuing to prove the theory.

Answer 6

Your title suggest a warmer climate is a threat. Your cited sources only refer to the fact that the Earth is getting warmer. Loss of trapped ice does not signify armogeddon to me......

Answer 7

Of course we all know that the path to ulitmate truth is through the yahoo search box.

Answer 8

And your point is?