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Based US government reports, SEPP calculated that from Fiscal Year (FY) 1993 to FY 2013 total US expenditures on climate change amount to more than $165 Billion. More than $35 Billion is identified as climate science. The White House reported that in FY 2013 the US spent $22.5 Billion on climate change. About $2 Billion went to US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
I comprehend just fine.
originally posted by: Kashai
a reply to: D8Tee
Maybe you did not read my last response but you did read my last link.
Again you really do not seem to comprehend what you are talking about.
There you go again making claims without any substance.
Paris agreement summary..
www.2degreesnetwork.com...
Full text..
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Aye, same here! I had the Encyclopedia set, The Ocean World According to Jacques Cousteau, excellent material, helped form my youth. Had the World Wildlife Fund Periodicals as well. I think that the environmental movement has been hijacked by the far left, happened in the early 80's or somewhere around there. I'm with you on focusing on real pollution and other issues that we are facing, C02 just isn't that big of a deal.
Jacques Cousteau is the one that introduced my younger self to the issue.
originally posted by: Kashai
a reply to: Justoneman
Thanks for the laugh.
This getting absurd
All this data is refutable the economic issues are not. Some reason you seem to be ignoring that?
Have good night as well.
originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: Justoneman
Aye, same here! I had the Encyclopedia set, The Ocean World According to Jacques Cousteau, excellent material, helped form my youth. Had the World Wildlife Fund Periodicals as well. I think that the environmental movement has been hijacked by the far left, happened in the early 80's or somewhere around there. I'm with you on focusing on real pollution and other issues that we are facing, C02 just isn't that big of a deal.
Jacques Cousteau is the one that introduced my younger self to the issue.
Really? You have proof of this? Same old tired stories from people that haven't looked into the actual studies, just parroting what they've heard someone else say
I have looked, have you?
originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: D8Tee
Really? You have proof of this? Same old tired stories from people that haven't looked into the actual studies, just parroting what they've heard someone else say
Go and look for yourself the evidence is all there.. Really people sound like idiots when they disagree with AGW with no science to back it up.. The consensus is we are the cause and this has been the consensus for over two decades..
Really people sound like idiots when they disagree with AGW with no science to back it up.
originally posted by: D8Tee
I have looked, have you?
originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: D8Tee
Really? You have proof of this? Same old tired stories from people that haven't looked into the actual studies, just parroting what they've heard someone else say
Go and look for yourself the evidence is all there.. Really people sound like idiots when they disagree with AGW with no science to back it up.. The consensus is we are the cause and this has been the consensus for over two decades..
An Extraordinary Popular Delusion and Madness of the Crowd. The alarmism and catastrophism are bubbles. AGW is a mild boon and the greening miraculous.
The only consensus you will find is that C02 levels have been rising since we have started measuring with instrumentation in 1958.
Really people sound like idiots when they disagree with AGW with no science to back it up.
Did you read the thread?
Contained within you would find proof that:
1. Global Temps have not risen in 18 years.
2. The rate of sea level rise has shown no statistically significant acceleration.
3. There has been no increase in Hurricanes or Cyclones.
I would suggest to you that members that jump in at the end of a thread without reading it are the ones that come off sounding like idiots.
. The computers aren't powerful enough to work out the models, the scientists dont want to say what we should do.
The Smoking Gun
The final piece of evidence is ‘the smoking gun’, the proof that CO2 is causing the increases in temperature. CO2 traps energy at very specific wavelengths, while other greenhouse gases trap different wavelengths. In physics, these wavelengths can be measured using a technique called spectroscopy. Here’s an example:
Summing Up
Like a detective story, first you need a victim, in this case the planet Earth: more energy is remaining in the atmosphere.
Then you need a method, and ask how the energy could be made to remain. For that, you need a provable mechanism by which energy can be trapped in the atmosphere, and greenhouse gases provide that mechanism.
Next, you need a ‘motive’. Why has this happened? Because CO2 has increased by nearly 50% in the last 150 years and the
increase is from burning fossil fuels.
And finally, the smoking gun, the evidence that proves ‘whodunit’: energy being trapped in the atmosphere corresponds exactly to the wavelengths of energy captured by CO2.
The last point is what places CO2 at the scene of the crime. The investigation by science builds up empirical evidence that proves, step by step, that man-made carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm up.
Predicting Impacts of Climate Change
Scientists have developed several computer-run simulations, or models, that combine and express in mathematical form what we know about the processes that control the atmospheric and hydrologic systems. The most advanced climate models are called General Circulation Models, or GCM's. These models are the primary tools used by scientists to try to predict the impacts of increased greenhouse gas concentration. The strength of these models is their ability to replicate input-response activities and relationships within complex systems that are far too elaborate for simple interpretation or logic. They have the ability to integrate various feedback processes in order to determine their effects on overall impact, and quickly generate different scenarios under varied assumptions about human activities.
A feedback can be defined as a direct result of a given process that either magnifies (positive feedback) or diminishes (negative feedback) the total effect of that very same process. One example of a positive feedback of global warming is the potential impact of increased concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere. As the oceans and atmosphere warm, the rate evaporation increases, causing more water vapor to accumulate in the atmosphere. As we noted earlier, water vapor is itself a greenhouse gas, causing even more heat to be trapped in the troposphere. Thus global warming is magnified by a result of its own existence.
Another example is the possibility of melting arctic ice caps releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Ice caps are a strong "sink" for carbon, storing the equivalent of almost one-third of the total carbon in Earth's atmosphere. As the Earth's temperature rises, and arctic permafrost and tundra melt, the carbon will be released into the atmosphere. The result is once again more heat being trapped and an even further increased global temperature.