Scientists cannot tell us if it will rain in 3 days, how do they expect us to believe it in global warming?

Question

Or is it Global Cooling, I forget which one the fear mongers are using against us now.

Oh, wait, they should just call it "catastrophic climate change", that's a good catch-all phrase for their Orwellian windmill...

Answer 1

Whether you believe that humans are responsible for "global warming" or not, you cannot deny that this earth is way too polluted and if we don't start making changes, we'll hardly be able to breath without a mask in 20 years.

Answer 2

Whether its true or not something needs to be done now be-
cause in 5 or 10 years when we realize the scientists were right, it will be too late to do anything.
Car manufacturers are heading in the right direction but only for competitive reasons. If we're wrong we'll have waisted money for a cleaner environment.
How much did the U.S. pay the drug companies to make a vaccine for the pending bird flu pandemic?
Better to be safe then sorry.

Answer 3

It's often the case that short term behaviour is "noisy" and unpredictable, but long term behaviour is very predictable.

The classic example is radioactivity. Take a piece of Lead-210. It's completely impossible to say whether a particular atom will decay in the next hour. And nothing is more sure than that, in 22.3 years half of them will have done so.

This graph illustrates the principle in climate. Note how individual years jump around, but the long term trend is undeniable.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Answer 4

You have to learn NewSpeak. That's the new lexicon of the global warming believers.

See to them anything that can be measured is just weather. For sure it's going to get warmer, the computer models are very accurate, the consensus of scientist agree it's real, and EVERYTHING else was eliminated as a possible cause.

In the future the climate is going to change, and that's proof that man is causing it.

I wonder what the spin is going to be when 2007 is shown to be the coldest year since 1970.

Answer 5

The fact that they can not understand what causes the temperature to change on a daily basis should tell us all that they don't understand what causes it on a decade or century scale. The computer models give a wide variety of results and the projections for the future have had to be revised several times due to inaccuracy.

Answer 6

A common misconception among those unfamiliar with the science behind global warming is that it's the same as weather.

Short-term weather (studied by meteorologists) is unpredictable. It's like a single bet or your winnings/losings over a day's worth of gambling. There's no way to know if on one bet or over one day you'll come out winning or losing. You can play the odds and hope to predict it right, but there are too many variables to predict it very accurately.

Long-term climate (studied by climate scientists) is much easier to predict. It's like the average of many years of gambling in casinos. If you keep betting for long enough, you can be sure you'll end up losing money. All the little bets average out over time.

As you can see here, the same is true of global warming:

http://profend.com/gtr/graphs/meangraphave.html

Jello - if 2007 is the coldest year since 1970, I will give you 10 million dollars.

Answer 7

I wish you wouldn't give the cultists credibility that they don't deserve. Science is not on their side in spite of their religious devotion to particular aspects that support their view. They are an abomination to real science in how they manipulate it to mean whatever they want.