In Depth Look of What Really is Causing Global Warming.

Apr 22, 2017 4:00 PM

ADancingDonut

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TL;DR: Graphs show that humans are the cause of global warming, not natural effects.
Happy Earth Day!

sauce: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

Eek! Global warming clearly causes higher greenhouse gas levels.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

News at 11: science fails to convince 50% of 'muricuns yet again.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

S-so.. we burn more coal!

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Cow farts?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Sure, if you want to use facts to make an argument. But what about my vague gut feeling based on political rhetoric and bad information?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Touché

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One word of caution, and bring the downvotes, Hansen (2010), the model where the "observed" temp comes from, has been under fire for (1/7)

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(2/7) failing to disclose some questionable methodology with regard to station selection. When sharing these data, you should add the caveat

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(3/7) or you're just giving ammunition to the rabid climate deniers. While the skepticism (against Hansen) has been mostly debunked, this

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(4/7) study did drop thermo stations when they showed a downward temperature trend & did use later-added stations with higher baseline

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(5/7) temperatures which may have artificially increased the upward trend. None of these methods were disclosed in the original publication.

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(6/7) https://www.skepticalscience.com/surface-temperature-measurements-advanced.htm (this is NOT a climate change skeptic or denier site,

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(7/7) it's a very well-documented climate-change-acceptance site with a dumb name). The Hansen issue is oft cited as "climate conspiracy."

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I can back up that this site is legit with a very poor choice of domain name.

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Additionally, MOST of the comments aren't absolute cancer, you can find a decent debate with sources from both sides.

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