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If you still think global warming is a myth, you may want to read something else because this article contains facts. The most recent study which uses global data dating back 11,000 years confirms what most scientists already know. The planet is warming, dramatically, and it's correlated strongly with human activity. Continue Reading
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April 1977 cover of Time magazine "How to survive the coming ice age" Same "stuff" different day.
Well said, Jerry N. This is another propaganda piece. In another 30 years, the alarmists will claim victory over global warming and will yet again warn of the imminent ice age; I'm sure we'll be blamed for that as well.
Marsh: "I was sad to see that none included a link to their scholarly published, peer reviewed research articles which demonstrates that AGW is a myth..."
Most of us who work for a living in the real world do not get big government grants to "research" phony BS like "anthropogenic global warming" (AGW). But it only took me one simple Google to find a long list of scientific, published anti-AGW papers, and at a pro-AGW web site no less. The website claims to "debunk" all these published papers, but the "debunking" seems to be just opinionated blogging, whilst the listed anti-AGW papers are real, peer-reviewed papers that, in toto, thoroughly and completely disprove the horsehockey known as AGW. Here's the link to the list: http://agwobserver.wordpress.com/anti-agw-papers-debunked/.
I am not a research scientist, but I am an engineer with more than 35 years of practical experience in collecting and analyzing experimental data using numerous high technology methods, including highly accurate methods of temperature measurement and analysis. I have forgotten more about making and assessing the quality of measurements than you or most AGW quacks could ever learn in ten lifetimes. You can interview me or whoever, but it is exceedingly unlikely that you will ever convince me that any of these AGW claims are anything but pure baloney and propaganda, unsupported by any coherent or consistent set of measured data. The data supporting the notion of AGW is a lot of hooey, and is easily proven to be so. Your article is not only total baloney, but the "facts" lie you made in its title is insulting and arrogant in the extreme.
The article is sourced to NBC, which is owned by industrial profit center GE, and written by carbon consuming globetrotter but very very concerned environmental dude with a pen, John Roach. What is it about global warming I am supposed to learn here? How corporations profit from clickthroughs on alarmist articles by hypocrites? I am not at all shocked you published it, but disappointed you take so many of your audience for fools.
When the people and corporations who say there is global warming start living seriously and running their companies in crisis mode, (including this publication, GE, John Roach, the Hollywood beachcombers with $40M homes on the oceanfront, et al.) perhaps I will listen more carefully. There is profit in alarmist rhetoric, spoon feeding the masses with important sounding authoritative articles. And most of it is a lie. The profit is in the lies. There is no risk to GE, to NBC, to John Roach. Journalistic malpractice? Corporate reputation? Please.
Science is hard, and no amount of propagandist rooftop shouting disguised as scientific fact will change that. Alar on apples, EMF near powerlines, Y2K, the current sequester...all the media crying wolf on an increasing scale. And you bought it. And many still buy it, cowering in fear from what are portrayed as doomsday facts.
In the meanwhile, stop insulting your readers with this corporate funded editorializing disguised as factual news.
We saw where the evidence presented by the proponents of man-made global warming was deliberately tampered with because it reflected data in opposition to their agenda. This temporary cycle that has occurred many times throughout the planet's history is just that - temporary due to natural causes. Advocates of natural cycles point to activity on the sun i.e. sun spots that cause rising and falling temperatures irrespective of burning fossil fuels. Science based on consensus is not science. As for the ignorance of the American people, y
ou don't have to be a veterinarian to know a jackass when you see one!
A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.
The report -- which is not scheduled for publication until 2014 -- was leaked by someone involved in the IPCC’s review process, and is available for download online. Bloggers combing through the report discovered a chart comparing the four temperature models the group has published since 1990. Each has overstated the rise in temperature that Earth actually experienced.
Global warming is a scam. Sun activity has more effect on us they all of mankind does. One volcano eruption spews more crap into the air then everything man has put in the air for the last 100+ years.
In 1978 we were warned by the so called 'experts' that we were heading for another ice age.
You don't spend trillions of dollars and destroy civilizations on the chance it may get 1 degree warming in the next hundred years.
People who push this like Al Gore who know has made over $200 million selling his tv network to Qatar. Gore is now richer that 'evil' Mitt Romney. Why would you believe anything Gore claims to be the truth.
Yes Marshall but facts must be interpreted and herein lies the debate. Yes, there is much room for debate. The data showing a warming planet is still tentative given the long term of climate change and the very short record of precise temperature records. Predictions about effects of CO2 on climate depend upon innumerable assumptions going into atmospheric models and the non-linear dynamics of atmospheric change make these predictions tenuous at best. Developing theories to explain the data, debating the theories, refining the theories and continually evaluating the data versus the theories all comprise the foundation of empirical science. There is less consensus on this that you seem willing to be able to admit. The rush to end the debate is inimical to authentic science; it is however, the approach of ideologues.
I'm very glad to see that so many scientists read Catholic Online and are experts on climate change research. I was sad to see that none included a link to their scholarly published, peer reviewed research articles which demonstrates that AGW is a myth. Frankly, I'd love to interview you if you have done such research.
The great problem we have with the global warming issue is that it has been hijacked by the left and is thought to be some form of heresy amongst the American right.
The reality is this.
1. It is a scientific issue. Yes, there's debate. There's also people who debate the Earth is still flat. Yes, flat-earthers exist, and they're wrong. The existence of debate does not reduce the reality and urgency of the problem. That's the good thing about science. It's true whether you believe it or not.
I'll let Phil Plait close number one here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/11/climate_change_denial_why_don_t_they_publish_scientific_papers.html
2. This is a CATHOLIC issue. We're talking about GLOBAL warming. This isn't just about America, or Obama, or Al Gore and his limousine (ridiculous), and Greenpeace telling us we can't drive luxury cars or eat steaks anymore.
The heart and soul of this issue is that lives are being disrupted, even lost because of AGW. Many of those victims are Catholics. Re-read that line, it's the heart of the matter, at least to me.
We are called to be stewards of the Earth and keepers of our brothers. It goes for everyone. We must look after one another. When we refuse to acknowledge a very realistic, fundamental problem, and repeat debunked absurdity like "the hockey stick graph is debunked!" when it's clearly verified by the latest data, we're putting on the blinders of our politics in this country and turning our backs on our brothers and sisters in the world.
I'm not saying this is all of you, but I have read comments on this website that make me suspect many are Republicans first and Catholics second. Check that if you are -- because it's wrong.
My purpose in writing this article was to ignite debate and to hopefully address some of the right-blindness we have about this issue. It's okay to accept the scientific consensus about AGW and still be conservative. Nobody's going to retroactively change your vote to Obama.
Please reevaluate your thinking on this issue, and do a thorough reading of the most recent literature from genuine, scholarly, peer-reviewed sources instead of propaganda organizations disguised as scientific organizations. You're all smarter than that. You know better.
I would like people to see with a Catholic vision first as opposed to a Republican one. The two are not the same.
Now I don't know specifically what changes we make to address this problem, but recognizing it is the first step. But I have little hope my comments here will change any hearts.
I repeat my offer, I would seriously be happy to interview any scientist on here who has published something that challenges the established scientific consensus on AGW. I am happy to stand corrected if I'm wrong.
There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see. --Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex"
marshconnolly@catholic.org
13,950 papers for AGW, 24 against.
So who provided the $'s for all those studies? While the latest data shows there has been no global warming in over a decade.
From the rather unscientific comments, it sounds like the squeaky wheel wants more "grease" ($'s).
Where are the facts in this article? There is only one number mentioned with no referenced source. Just more deeply routed political convictions and hatred for God and country. If there is severe weather, and it has happened throughout history, then God is trying to tell us all something and we better listen.
I am surprise, and disappointed, that you included this article.