TheRealMafoo said:
"The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html Not only that, while the globe has gotten more radical weather and warmer over the last 15-20 years, so has Mars. How has Mar's climate been effected by CO2 on earth?
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That's like arguing that because you had one month with no rain that it is absolutely impossible for it to be the rainest year on record. You are looking at things on the completely wrong timescale. Not to mention I don't even think that data is correct.
And you can't really debunk a doomsday scenario until that point in time actually passes...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116163206.htm
2008 Global Temperature Ties As Eighth Warmest On Record
ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2009) — The year 2008 tied with 2001 as the eighth warmest year on record for the Earth, based on the combined average of worldwide land and ocean surface temperatures through December, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. For December alone, the month also ranked as the eighth warmest globally, for the combined land and ocean surface temperature. The assessment is based on records dating back to 1880.
Please point out the flatline to me. Cause I definitely don't see it. In fact the pattern looks just like the last fifteen years, except that the average temperature is even higher.
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