However, don%26#039;t you think by big Al raising the awareness of climate change, he has put additional pressure on the development of alternative energy technology such as nano solar power? see www.nanosolar.com
I mean afterall, look what Al did by opening up the Internet. That resulted in the biggest tech boom in history. I see the same thing happening with alternative energy. We all know it%26#039;s a matter of time before we will be off oil. Don%26#039;t you think Al will add %26quot;getting us off oil sooner than later%26quot; to his resume of impressive accomplishments?
I do agree with you that the increased awareness of climate change has helped us develop alternative energy technologies like solar and wind and electric vehicles.
2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.
3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860%26#039;s or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.
4. The earth has been warming for the last 18,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. During this time frame, the glaciers have been melting at a fairly consistent rate. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...
5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70%26#039;s and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.
6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths%26#039; temperature than CO2 levels ever have.
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...
http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/09/sunspo...
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_r...
7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/...
8. Many glaciers are expanding. Even Antarctica is growing on 98% of is land mass. Only 2% is melting.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...
9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...
10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...
11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...
12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...
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Al%26#039;s a politician. He%26#039;s supposed to be a moron.
We all know that the earth goes through cycles naturally, but the past 5000 years have been relatively stable, and we%26#039;d like to keep it that way.
We also know that we are adding greenhouse gases (not just CO2, but sulfuric acid, which is much worse).
You can drop a basketball and predict it will bounce cyclically, but if you kick it, it will still go off flying.
I think we can%26#039;t risk upsetting the current climate. -
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GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY HUMANS! WE ARE KILLING OUR PLANET!!!!!!!