Is anthropological global warming a lie? The key word is %26#039;anthropological%26#039;.
I am in no way doubting that there is a global change in climate.

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6 months ago

Thanks for the responses, mostly what I was hoping to hear.

It would be interesting to know what arguments can be presented regarding the reasoning behind this agenda?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_peti... dispells the myth about 17,000 scientists who are skeptics on AGW

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfact...

http://www.wor ldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_p...

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

These will answer your question. Of course we are causing global warming.

We know it%26#039;s warming, and we%26#039;ve measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth%26#039;s natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they%26#039;ve gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming. What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming. This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

So the Sun certainly isn%26#039;t a large factor in the current warming. They%26#039;ve also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

%26quot;An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that %26#039;Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.%26#039;%26quot;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitc...
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

So it%26#039;s definitely not the Earth%26#039;s natural cycles. They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

So it%26#039;s certainly not due to volcanoes. Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions. We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels. We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we%26#039;ve seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we%26#039;ve seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%). You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming. notice who%26#039;s supporting their position with scientific evidence

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Do humans use fossil fuels? YES!
Can scientists measure the increases of CO2 from fossil fuels? YES!
Is there a consensus among the world%26#039;s leading scientists? YES!
Is there a well financed %26#039;denial%26#039; of science,meant to mislead the public? YES!
Does religious dogma play right into the oil company%26#039;s %26#039;denial%26#039; conspiracy? YES!
Did the White House censor climate data to help the oil co.in their %26#039;denial%26#039; conspiracy? YES!
Have the arguments presented by the %26#039;deniers%26#039; been totally disproved? YES!