"Global Warming" theory

[TheRealMafoo]

akuma587 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Cactus said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Cactus said:

I'm pretty sure that pollutants are the main contributer to global warming.

I am pretty sure the massive ball of fire in the sky is the main contributer to global warming.

Ooh, nice response. Now try responding to the second sentence of my post that you seem to have left out.

 

Better yet, give me a valid argument against this.

"...there has never been such an accelerated warming period as what we're experiencing now..."

"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?

 

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.

But that long term trent exists on other planets as well, and with the major increase in CO2, if that was the main factor, we would have gotten a LOT warmer.

The earth is warming, no question. I just think there is zero evidence to point to it being due to our energy consumption. Making policy that will cost trillions of dollars to fix a problem we have yet to understand, is insanity.