Global warming benefits once-rare butterfly

[mentalfloss]

Sometimes....you should listen to the voice of experience.

When it comes to climate science, I'll listen to the experience of climate scientists.

 

[EagleSmack]

When it comes to climate science, I'll listen to the experience of climate scientists.

The ones that say what you want to hear?

 

[mentalfloss]

The ones that say what you want to hear?

Regardless of what I want to hear, they all say the same thing.

A survey of all peer-reviewed abstracts on the subject 'global climate change' shows that not a single paper rejected the consensus position that global warming is man caused.

Subsequent research has confirmed this result. A survey of 3146 earth scientists asked the question "Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?" (Doran 2009). More than 90% of participants had Ph.D.s, and 7% had master’s degrees. Overall, 82% of the scientists answered yes. However, what are most interesting are responses compared to the level of expertise in climate science. Of scientists who were non-climatologists and didn't publish research, 77% answered yes. In contrast, 97.5% of climatologists who actively publish research on climate change responded yes.

 

[Kakato]

I think most geologists are about as close as you can get when it comes to environmental science,sedimentary layers dont lie(pun) and reading them is not rocket science either.

 

[mentalfloss]

I think most geologists are about as close as you can get when it comes to environmental science,sedimentary layers dont lie(pun) and reading them is not rocket science either.

I wouldn't make an assumption about global warming based on sedimentary rock.

 

[Cabbagesandking]

Not any of the ones I have worked with over the years and I have worked with lots.

You have not worked with any climate scientists and I think you are mistaking a few field geologists for scientists.

As mentalfloss posts later, there are no contradictory science studie. The verdict is unanimous that the warming is occurring faster than at any time in the history of the Planet and that the warming of the past several decades is entirely anthropogenic. There are natural variations within the warming but they happen in both directions. The trend is exclusively from human factors.

 

[mentalfloss]

As mentalfloss posts later, there are no contradictory science studie. The verdict is unanimous that the warming is occurring faster than at any time in the history of the Planet and that the warming of the past several decades is entirely anthropogenic. There are natural variations within the warming but they happen in both directions. The trend is exclusively from human factors.

This is quintessentially, the correct position on the matter.

The only real disagreement is in the degree of effect and scope of AGW.

 

[Kakato]

This is quintessentially, the correct position on the matter.

The only real disagreement is in the degree of effect and scope of AGW.

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.

—Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

 

[mentalfloss]

My Name is Kakato. There is no global warming.
-- Kakato (2012)

 

[Kakato]

My Name is Kakato. There is no global warming.
-- Kakato (2012)

Thats real funny because I never said that,of course its warming and cooling.
What else is new?

 

[lone wolf]

The boys at goose lake Nunavut sent me pics of Mallards in the lake,they did not know what they are as they have never seen them that far north.Kind of neat how that global warming works.

They're ducks, anyhow....

 

[Kakato]

Bring on the global warming!

 

[mentalfloss]

Thats real funny because I never said that,of course its warming and cooling.
What else is new?

Right, and there are natural climate factors as well as anthropogenic factors.

EDIT: Nice stealth edit, lol. You can let your higher-ups know you won't be getting the astroturfer's fee this month.