The top ten global warming 'skeptic' arguments answered

[DaSleeper]

Crying wolf (warming) so often.......ad nauseum.......


The Boy Who Cried Warming - YouTube

 

[mentalfloss]

Shoulda gone with the ant and the grasshopper.

Way better herring.

 

[petros]

Can you make pancakes from scratch?

 

[EagleSmack]

He wants us to read his gospel.

 

[petros]

Zealot.

 

[mentalfloss]

 

[taxslave]

i must have missed something because after reading the OP and a couple of supporting drivel I had to check and see if it is April First. Turns out the OP somehow got moved from fun &jokes to science.

 

[mentalfloss]

Still failed to address the facts.

It's okay to be wrong guys.

It's part of the learning process.

 

[captain morgan]

Funny that no one tells me why it is still the same weather here on the wet coast since I was born .
When is it going to get warmer and drier ?

That's a direct result of global warming, errrr, maybe it's climate change.

Doesn't matter anyways, the debate is over - Suzuki said so

Still failed to address the facts.

It's okay to be wrong guys.

It's part of the learning process.

Facts as provided by some guy's blog?

LOL!!

 

[mentalfloss]

Are you saying he's wrong just because it's a blog?

That's mighty assumptive.

 

[captain morgan]

All of the scienticians claiming expertise and support for AGW have been dead wrong to date... Other than this is some idiot that shares the same ideology as you, what makes you believe there is any accuracy whatsoever in his (unfounded) claims?

 

[EagleSmack]

Are you saying he's wrong just because it's a blog?

That's mighty assumptive.

Blogs that are Alarmists Blogs... Good!

Common Sense Blogs... Bad

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Are you saying he's wrong just because it's a blog?

That's mighty assumptive.

Aren't you the first guy to dismiss claims against your beliefs because of the source or if it comes from a blog?

 

[MHz]

China and India... they still get a pass. They are not even considered in any alarmists scams.

Didn't the whole energy crunch thing crop up just when the US was having trouble paying it's monthly energy bill without openly robbing the people? About the same time that 'they' started the equal to the industrial revolution in England and saying it is something that shouldn't have happened.

 

[EagleSmack]

Didn't the whole energy crunch thing crop up just when the US was having trouble paying it's monthly energy bill without openly robbing the people? About the same time that 'they' started the equal to the industrial revolution in England and saying it is something that shouldn't have happened.

No



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[Cobalt_Kid]

All of the scienticians claiming expertise and support for AGW have been dead wrong to date... Other than this is some idiot that shares the same ideology as you, what makes you believe there is any accuracy whatsoever in his (unfounded) claims?

Statements like this are meaningless without evidence.

Show me where the evidence supports this in the slightest.

The same fundamental theories(that obviously work) that allow us to communicate in such a complex and counter-intuitive manner we are now also provide the foundation for Global Warming.

So claiming that the science behind climate change is unsupported through a communications platform that is completely dependent on the same underlying physical basis is about as ignorant as it comes.

 

[mentalfloss]

Aren't you the first guy to dismiss claims against your beliefs because of the source or if it comes from a blog?

Nope.

But thanks for confirming your reducto adbloggio.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

If you start from the position that you're not going to believe the evidence no matter how strong, is it any wonder that some people are still convinced( or claim to be) that Global Warming isn't real. Even if the most fundamental physical principles support it's existence and magnitude.

The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming

Quantum mechanics plays a crucial, albeit often overlooked, role in our understanding of the Earth's climate. In this talk three well known aspects of quantum mechanics are invoked to present a simple physical picture of what will happen as the concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide continue to increase. Historical and paleoclimatic records are interpreted with some basic astronomy, fluid mechanics, and the use of fundamental laws of physics such as the conservation of angular momentum. Live simulations will illustrate the basic physical principles governing large scale atmospheric circulation. I conclude by discussing some possible ways that physics might be able to contribute to a deeper understanding of climate change.

10 Real-world Applications of Quantum Mechanics : Discovery Channel

In the fall of 1945, the U.S. Army completed its work on ENIAC, the world's first vacuum-tube computer. All told, ENIAC weighed more than 30 tons (27 metric tons), had the footprint of a small house and cost nearly half a million dollars to create [source: Weik]. Fortunately, by the time ENIAC was built, Bell Laboratories was already well on its way to developing a replacement for power-hungry, space-consuming vacuum tubes: the transistor. Transistors act as both an amplifier and a switch for electronic signals, functions essential to virtually all modern electronic equipment, and without quantum mechanics, they likely wouldn't exist.

That's because transistors rely on the unique properties of semiconductors -- materials that can act as either a conductor or an insulator -- to operate. Thanks to groundbreaking discoveries in quantum mechanics, Stanford researcher Eugene Wigner and his student, Frederick Seitz, were the first to manipulate the properties of semiconductors in the 1930s. Armed with their research, scientists from Bell Laboratories developed the first rudimentary transistors over the next decade, and by 1954, the United States military had constructed TRIDAC, the first transistor-based computer. Unlike the monstrous, unreliable vacuum-tube computers that preceded it, TRIDAC occupied only 3 cubic feet (0.08 cubic meters) and needed only 100 watts of power to operate [source: PBS]. Today, companies like Intel and AMD fabricate cutting-edge microprocessors containing billions of microprocessors, and we have quantum mechanics to thank.

So I guess if you're going through life believing things like the world is only 6,000 years old, there is no such thing as evolution and that man shared the Earth with dinosaurs then you're likely to accept that Global Warming isn't real. But that's not science. And being unwilling on any actual level to accept the relevance of science(even while communicating through a method which is entirely dependent on modern science) doesn't make a person safe from the consequences of ignoring that science.

 

[EagleSmack]

So I guess if you're going through life believing things like the world is only 6,000 years old, there is no such thing as evolution and that man shared the Earth with dinosaurs then you're likely to accept that Global Warming isn't real. But that's not science. And being unwilling on any actual level to accept the relevance of science(even while communicating through a method which is entirely dependent on modern science) doesn't make a person safe from the consequences of ignoring that science.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

Aren't you the first guy to dismiss claims against your beliefs because of the source or if it comes from a blog?

They didn't have blogs in 1827 or 1859 or 1898 or 1938 or 1957 or any other significant date in the science of Global Warming.

The big lie from the denial campaign is that Global Warming is some recent development by a few modern scientists. It has it's roots as deep in fundamental science as any other theory or discipline.

If you want to go back to living in a time where science and the technology it supports doesn't play a role then go live with the Amish...at which point we wouldn't be subject to your opinions as the fundamental science that allows us to understand the consequences of increasing the atmospheric concentration of CO2 also allows us to produce the hardware that makes the Internet possible.

If you're so true to your beliefs in the inability of quantum mechanics to predict the physical properties of matter then stop using the results of this very powerful tool.

Which is pretty much the online equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and going la,la,la...because you're unwilling or unable to accept what's being said.

Global Warming and it's effects don't go away because a few people lack the courage and insight to accept the facts.