Yes, you can increase area while decreasing volume. However, the area that increased also has volume. AC is arguing like the area that increased has no volume because volume is different from Area. Any 4th grader would look at him like an idiot yet he continues to parrot it.
Yes, one year is an incredibly small sample size. As is the 150 years of global climate data we have. However, the left seems content to ignore over a decade of flat or cooling temperatures in an effort to continue to wage war against capitalism, power, wealth, and industrialization.
So Ginwilly... How long do you want to wait for them to stop discounting what they do not choose to believe?? 10 years? 20 years? 100 years?? In the 70's we were facing an oncoming ice age so if it flips every 40-50 years they should be getting ready to warn us that we are going to become an ice cube unless we stop burning fossil fuels.
No doubt the alarmists are pushing an agenda. The deniers have an agenda also as the left likes to point out. Hypocrisy is winning for both sides.
There's arguments that the science is settled so we need more money to research that science.
There's arguments that so what if it's man made, that doesn't mean man can do anything to fix it.
Meanwhile, my greatest concern is that the lunatic fringe from either side will be making policy. We've shown over and over that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
The lack of logic stemming from the pub idea of cap and trade escapes me. We are polluting too much, so the answer is to charge them more while they pollute too much. Then the dems adopt it as their strategy, only tweak it a bit to dictate who gets that money from the polluters, say "but it was a bad republican idea first" to convince us it's good...
I'm just enjoying the argument. While it goes on, no major damage will be done to "fix it". People will be more aware of their lifestyle choices and maybe stop shitting on the kitchen floor (most anyway, some people just shit on floors).
People flying around the world in private jets to lecture us about our carbon footprint also bug me.