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Originally Posted by avandonk
OK I'll take the bait. These assertions have no basis in reality. They are promulgated by people who have no expertise but sell their name to the naysaying of over 1300 peer reviewed papers published in reputable journals.
They are in the pay directly or indirectly of large energy companies who do not like the truth.
These people sound very glib, but there is no longer any doubt WE are causing global warming by our everyday activities.
I won't waste any more time on these twits.
But I urge you all to look at the real evidence not mindless assertions.
Bert
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Bert - this sounds like Greenpeace propaganda. You are dismissing evidence based on ad hominem attackes and appeal to supposed authority.
There is ample room for grave doubts as to what the data is actually saying, and none of this comes out in the popular media, which merely parrots the green line.
There has been a small increase in temperatures of about 0.6 degrees C over the last 20 years, but the trend is not linear as CO2 forcing would indicate. It could even be just a variation around a mean.
There is just too much wild speculation and hysteria around this, based on models with garbage in-garbage out scenarios. The long term trends are really unknown, and do not justify spending billion of dollars of our childrens inheritance on measures that are useless and possibly pointless.
It also gives politicians an easy out, as the drought is blamed on "global warming" not on their manifest inadequacies to plan a water supply for the growth in population.