After spending several years following the topic of "global warming", searching out publicly available data and archiving gigabytes of news articles
and reports, I have to disagree, Muaddib.
To be more precise, I disagree with the reported amount of warming, the projected furtherence of warming and the alledged cause of the warming. What
is dished out in the mainstream media is over simplified and over stated mostly because doom sells news and aids hidden agendas. Stating a bunch of
"if's" and "maybe's" doesn't attract profitable attention.
Some brief points:
(1) Regional warming and regional cooling can not logically be tagged as "global" events.
(2) There has long been disagreements in the global temperature data that was used to infer the existence of a long term warming trend. There are
valid questionable aspects pertaining to how and where much of the data was recorded. Inaccuracies abound. Numerous scientists disagree with the
distorted IPCC claims which were based on a skewed summary of the actual report.
(a few listed
here)
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this)
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(3) Our current period in time is not of any extraordinary temperature extreme. There have been many sustained warm periods in the past, the last as
recent as the 1930's which was of a slightly higher magnitude.
(some info here)
In fact, some respected climatologists predict a small ice age rather than global
warming.
(here)
(4) There is no true consensus about the Atlantic conveyor, it's duration or affect. Glacier activity is cyclic and they come and go. Also ponder the
fact that there are no above-freezing temperatures on record for either pole. Also consider the fact that the Atlantic ocean has an oscillation cycle
just as the Pacific ocean does.
(5) Sunken cities can result for many reasons, especially erosion, vulcanism and plate drift. There is to date, no appreciable difference in measured
sea level. The claims that Tuvalu was sinking were incorrect. Sea level actually dropped.
(article)
(6) Science, good or bad, has little to do with one's spelling ability and you should check your own spelling as well.
More next time.