If you won't present proof then why should I believe you? That's one degree, and that's not good. Think of how big Antarctica is. Now, think about how smooth the temperature gradient becomes with all that surface area. There are thousands of square miles less than a degree below the melting point- add a degree and bada-bing, bada-bang, you've got melting ice on a scale not seen for centuries. Now apply that logic to the crop belts, deserts, migration patterns, rivers, lakes, water consumption rates- one degree makes all the difference. The medieval warm period was tiny and localized. This is the whole world we're talking about here, from China to Singapore to Berlin to London to the Andes to the Pacific, the world temperature has risen everywhere. It shows no signs of stopping either- if we don't stop this, we're toast.
Lack of funding for academia causing fraud? Ridiculous. Where did the money come from in the first place? In addition, if
you can disprove it, then a small-time climatologist could perform the same feat before you did. You have no research, either- all the data point to global warming. The new name refers to the fact that heating the earth can cause more dangerous weather (tornadoes, hurricanes), which isn't what global warming calls to mind. The problem was a bad name, not bad research. If there is only money in applied research, then King Coal would have quickly defeated the theory and scientists everywhere would agree. They don't. The controversy isn't there because scientists are too scared or underfunded- the funds are there and the scientists have the courage, like they always have. Finally, science is not all about money- look at CERN, it has no commercial application whatsoever, and yet billions pour into it. It's science at its finest.
For the medieval warm period, read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_warm_period#cite_note-mann_etal.282009.29-12It's well cited, so feel free to check the sources.
mth you posted just before i did you bastage!!!
actually the only thing this proves is that people are fanatical about finding bs reasons to cry the sky is falling.......
the earth is how many years old?
it has had how many dramatic climate changes through out its history?
how long has man's industrialization been effecting the ozone?
with just the answers to those few questions you really think that 132 years of temperature history is a reasonable measure to base your theory of the sky is falling upon?
the woe the world is ending idiots are grasping at ridiculously pathetic straws just to create a panic and get people to live their way. if you take 6+billion years of climate history and peak through it you will see that warming and cooling phases are a naturally reoccurring event. just ask the dinosaurs...........
your point is invalid and your proof shows just how empty the thought process supporting it is.
The earth is approximately 4.3 billion years old by uranium dating, and there have been Ice Ages. However, until there is a good deal of freezing or desertification, the actual temperature is irrelevant. It's the speed with which things are changing. A speed of this magnitude hasn't happened since the Great Dying, and even that took orders of magnitude longer than what we're seeing today. Now, life has even less time to adapt, and the extinction will be even worse. It's all about the rate of change. Lately, we've seen the greatest spike yet, which corresponds to the beginning of the Industrial revolution and the entrance of India and China into the world stage. The data is there, just look at it! Where are you getting the idea that scientists the world over have joined together in some conspiracy, though? That's quite the extraordinary claim and it warrants extraordinary evidence.
Specifically on the Great Dying, it wiped out over half of life on earth. It took millions of years to recover from it, just like it took tens of thousands of years to recover from the Ice Ages. Climate change certainly won't end life on earth. Life will always find a way, but don't expect people to stick around too well when the oceans swallow up the land. It'd be miserable, even cataclysmic, for changing one thing causes a cascade in that direction. Take the ice caps- as they melt there is less ice to reflect the sun and they melt faster, leaving less ice and so on. We need to act soon, before it's too late.
-Penguin
