The 5 Telltale Techniques Of Climate Change Denial

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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/opinions/cook-techniques-climate-change-denial/
 
camberiu said:
Since we are at it.







2009: Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014


2015: Rise in the Volume of Arctic Sea Ice Noted by UK Researchers
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3. Impossible expectations

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While many lines of evidence inform our understanding of climate change, another source of understanding are climate models. These are computer simulations built from the fundamental laws of physics, and they have made many accurate predictions since the 1970s. Climate models have successfully predicted the loss of Arctic sea ice, sea level rise and the geographic pattern of global warming. However, one technique used to cast doubt on climate models is the tactic of impossible expectations.[/background][background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]
Some people argue that climate models are unreliable if they don't make perfect short-term predictions. However, a number of unpredictable influences such as ocean and solar cycles have short-term influences on climate. Over the long term, these effects average out, which is why climate models do so well at long-term predictions.[/background]
4. Cherry-picking

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Signs of global warming have been observed all over our planet. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice every year. Global sea level is rising. Thousands of species are migrating toward cooler regions in response to warming. The ocean is building up four atomic bombs worth of heat every second. One way to avoid this overwhelming body of evidence is through the technique of cherry-picking.[/background]
[background=rgb(254, 254, 254)]For example, a persistent myth is that global warming stopped in recent decades. This is done by focusing on one slice of our climate system -- the surface temperature record. Further, it relies on cherry-picking short time periods. This ignores the long-term trend and more importantly, ignores the many warming indicators telling us that our planet continues to build up heat.[/background]
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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/CryoSat/Arctic_sea_ice_up_from_record_low
“It’s estimated that there was around 20 000 cubic kilometres of Arctic sea ice each October in the early 1980s, and so today’s minimum still ranks among the lowest of the past 30 years,” said Professor Andrew Shepherd from University College London, a co-author of the study.
 
Wait, damn, I can't keep up with all scientists supposedly agree on. Damn. First it was the world's flat, then it was the sun revolving around the Earth, and more recently in the 70s we are going to hit peak reserves of oil in a decade (BTW in 2012 they were saying we still had 50 years and now they are saying one year, maybe), then in the 80s we were going into an ice age that couldn't be stopped.

All things that scientists "knew" by majority acclaim.

And the article linked to has about as many assumptions about the reasons there is global warming as the people who who don't think there is. Talking about cherry-picking...

But this is all I have to say on the subject. Considering that no prediction made about the effects of what warming has occurred have come to pass in reality (including Gore's scaring of young kids and the polar bears adrift in the water, poor things who have been documented for decades enjoying long swims in the polar water before anyone thought the polar ice caps were melting), I'll come back to this post in 10 years and see how everyone feels about it then :D
 
One thing we can all agree with: the only way to save earth is to raise taxes. :D
 
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