http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/featur...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library...
http://dels.nas.edu/basc/Climate-LOW.pdf
http://www.ipcc.ch/ 11% 1 Vote
It%26#039;s not Global Warming, it%26#039;s Ocean Warming :
http://www.iceagenow.com/Ocean_Warming.h...
%26quot;The crust is only about 3-5 miles (8 kilometers) thick under the oceans(oceanic crust)%26quot; That%26#039;s 1600+++ degrees - that creates volcanoes, drives geothermal power plants as well as an unknown amount of small surface vents and UNKNOWN numbers of undersea vents:
http://environment.newscientist.com/arti...
%26quot;The team estimates that in total there could be about 3 million submarine volcanoes, 39,000 of which rise more than 1000 metres over the sea bed.%26quot;
The Sun has far more different types of emissions than %26#039;warmers%26#039; want you to know about - the most important being %26#039;Interplanetary Magnetic Fields%26#039; - which can be monitored here: = http://www.spaceweather.com/
Even NASA acknowledges %26#039;Sun Spots%26#039; and their ties to %26#039;solar minimums%26#039; = Maunder Minimum - But they only look outward not inward where the earth%26#039;s heat is.
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/Sunspo...
The historical effects of solar minimums where great portions of the human population died from serious cold.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaun... 11% 1 Vote
The question is why.
Climate change is happening. It is particularly affecting poorer countries where communities who used to be able to grow their own crops can no longer be self sufficient. A few years ago the governments throughout the world set up the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change made up of hundreds of scientists who had relevant knowledge and were working on the subject and asked then why.
They have issued, so far, four reports and their current conclusion is that it is highly likely that the main factor is global warming caused by less energy being radiated from the world than being received and that this is caused by the so called greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide and methane - being released into the atmosphere.
Of course this conclusion is unpopular amongst certain circles and although most countries have signed the Kyoto protocol to try and do something about it, US, China and India have not.
I thought that doing a research project meant keeping an open mind but if you have already decided your conclusion then you should make a case for why the IPCC have got it wrong. Good luck! http://www.ipcc.ch/ 0% 0 Votes
So it is likely the earth has warmed up over the past 10,000 years.
The question is, does burning fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide significantly contribute to this warming.
The simple answer, no one knows. The data are ambiguous, extremely noisy, and how water vapor/clouds figures into all this is not modeled by computers.
Temperatures today are within normal variance of past climate changes, so this question may never be answered. 11% 1 Vote