Beefbisquit
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Actually, only the low end of the report was changed, and has since then been changed back... if you read the report. you'd know that.Then you are reading shit into what I am saying.
The previous report was admittedly WRONG.
You are comparing hundreds of years ago, e.g. the very beginning of the dawn of reason, and modern science. You really are dumb.Science has reached false conclusions back to the beginning. Scientists said the earth was flat, that the sun rotated around it and it was the center of the universe. I have plenty of evidence showing that many of the conclusions scientists have reached in the past was wrong.
Again, Falsum in uno, falsum in omnibus. It's the quality of evidence and research that matters, not their previous record of success.
So what? The last 160 years show a steady increase. You are taking a single anomalous piece of data and claiming it disproves the entire theory. That's what evolution deniers do. Welcome to a very select club of imbeciles.The scientific method is based on the creation of a hypothesis. Then the hypothesis is tested. If the hypothesis bears out under testing a conclusion may be reached (that can yet be proven wrong).
What we are dealing with here is more politics than science.
The hypothesis are:
1. The earth is warming at this time. (this is in dispute from the last 15 years of data) I would speculate that it is impossible to determine whether the globe will be warming or cooling tomorrow without any data nor proven hypothesis so all we have is the past.
What have you been reading? Reports I've read show that while the C02 produced by man is small compared to the amount stored in the earth and water, those naturally occurring amounts of C02 are dealt with by nature. Of the 29 gigatonnes of C02 that is man made, only about 40% of that can be dealt with by natural causes. Where does the other 60% go? It just sits in the atmosphere.2. Man is a driving force of the global warming if #1 is true.
Now, scientists have created multiple MODELS of what they thing is happening and NONE of the data has matched their hypothesis. They have failed to demonstrate it. BUT... BECAUSE IT IS SOOOO IMPORTANT. We jump to a conclusion and begin to take action...
But consider what happens when more CO2 is released from outside of the natural carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels. Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year, it adds up because the land and ocean cannot absorb all of the extra CO2. About 40% of this additional CO2 is absorbed. The rest remains in the atmosphere, and as a consequence, atmospheric CO2 is at its highest level in 15 to 20 million years (Tripati 2009). (A natural change of 100ppm normally takes 5,000 to 20,000 years. The recent increase of 100ppm has taken just 120 years).
Creating technology that curbs fossil fuel use is the point.That is politics, not science.
I dont care whether the globe is warming or cooling. We have direct evidence that it has been much cooler and much warmer.
My point is and always has been that we need to develop technologies to adapt rather than spend trillions of dollars trying to change the weather.
But you're right, it is politics that is keeping climate change from being taken as seriously as it should. People are making too much money off of destroying our planet to listen to scientists.