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The idea is not new; several studies over the past 10 years have found a scientific consensus on climate change. Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University, in 2004 found that 75 percent of published studies supported anthropogenic global warming. Since then, six other studies have been published with widespread media attention.[/ex]
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originally posted by: Phage
Yes, the Sun affects climate. Of course. So, what has changed about the Sun to account for the warming trend we are seeing?
I mean if one want to go into numbers...
Try this simple experiment. Place a paper towel on a work surface. Add water a drop at a time. At first the paper will absorb every drop of water. Eventually, though, there must come a time when the paper is so loaded with water that any excess is not absorbed. This illustrates a fundamental principle of all systems:
Carbon Dioxide simply can't be a pollutant
originally posted by: TheBandit795
If C02 is really a pollutant, would they allow these products to be sold?
Autopilot CO2 Generator - 2262 to 9052 BTU
So far, land plants and the ocean have taken up about 55 percent of the extra carbon people have put into the atmosphere while about 45 percent has stayed in the atmosphere. Eventually, the land and oceans will take up most of the extra carbon dioxide
originally posted by: Justoneman
originally posted by: garbageface
It's my thought, since climate changes have existed beyond the past 50 years and weren't political issues. Propaganda is thick these days. Disagreeing with somebody that carbon is the cause of global warming just gets a "you have no idea what you're talking about, you're not a scientist" replies, even though the "evidence" that it is carbon caused is weak at best.
And no, I'm not a climate change denier, I'm just not sold that carbon is the culprit.
Carbon Dioxide simply can't be a pollutant, we can show way more carbon that we have now was in the atmosphere and the plants thrived and so did animal life. The most diverse time of animals was when CO2 was perhaps 10 times or more what it is today.
originally posted by: Xenogears
Has the Sun been more active in recent decades, and could it be responsible for some global warming?
originally posted by: mersaultdies
originally posted by: Justoneman
originally posted by: garbageface
It's my thought, since climate changes have existed beyond the past 50 years and weren't political issues. Propaganda is thick these days. Disagreeing with somebody that carbon is the cause of global warming just gets a "you have no idea what you're talking about, you're not a scientist" replies, even though the "evidence" that it is carbon caused is weak at best.
And no, I'm not a climate change denier, I'm just not sold that carbon is the culprit.
Carbon Dioxide simply can't be a pollutant, we can show way more carbon that we have now was in the atmosphere and the plants thrived and so did animal life. The most diverse time of animals was when CO2 was perhaps 10 times or more what it is today.
The surface of the earth had multiple times more photosynthesizing organisms that were able to recycle the carbon in the atmosphere than it does now. Do you accept that we currently have an earth that is unable to recycle the carbon in the same way and that leads to more remaining in the atmosphere?
originally posted by: mersaultdies
a reply to: Justoneman
Please find a way to summarise, using whatever knowledge you want gained from the 20 papers, your exact belief in the reason for recent and ongoing climate change.
You have argued against the idea of man-made carbon release being responsible and suggested that the sun is responsible. But what you haven't done it answered Phage's earlier question about what evidence you use to suggest a correlation between the sun and climate change.
Is the sun warming or cooling the earth? Why do you believe this? Do you not believe that carbon released by human activity is warming the earth?
New findings suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth’s vegetation is grabbing more carbon from the air than in previous decades.
That’s the conclusion of a multi-institutional study led by a scientist from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). It’s based on extensive ground and atmospheric observations of CO2, satellite measurements of vegetation, and computer modeling. The research is published online Nov. 8 in the journal Nature Communications.