06-06-2008, 08:45 PM
[quote shadow]The only thing we can say with 100% certainty about the climate is that it is always changing.
Nonsense! Talk about the classic straw man argument. Nobody said that except you. If you ACTUALLY LISTEN OR READ pretty much any published discussion of the rationale for the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, you will find that 1) a significant anomalous global warming event on the time scale of the industrial revolution is absolutely 100% certain; and, 2) the evidence that the warming anomaly is primarily anthropogenic (resulting from industrialization) is never cited as "100% certainty", though as time goes on and more data comes in, the certainty has increased tremendously. There is very little contradictory data...the only contradictions come from political propagandists and oil company executives (except that the oil companies with the largest research braintrusts [e.g. shell, BP] have changed their colors and now concede that the anthropogenic hypothesis is almost certainly correct.
[quote shadow][quote incognegro]How come the forecast for the next few days in PA is almost 100, in early June?
You mean just like it was in 1899, 1914, 1925, 1933, 1959, 1984, and 1999?
Congrats. Incognegro was technically incorrect in his flippant implication that local weather trends have anything to do with global warming, but rather than correct him by saying that local weather trends are not meaningful in this regard, you jumped in and threw out your own irrelevant observations.
Nonsense! Talk about the classic straw man argument. Nobody said that except you. If you ACTUALLY LISTEN OR READ pretty much any published discussion of the rationale for the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis, you will find that 1) a significant anomalous global warming event on the time scale of the industrial revolution is absolutely 100% certain; and, 2) the evidence that the warming anomaly is primarily anthropogenic (resulting from industrialization) is never cited as "100% certainty", though as time goes on and more data comes in, the certainty has increased tremendously. There is very little contradictory data...the only contradictions come from political propagandists and oil company executives (except that the oil companies with the largest research braintrusts [e.g. shell, BP] have changed their colors and now concede that the anthropogenic hypothesis is almost certainly correct.
[quote shadow][quote incognegro]How come the forecast for the next few days in PA is almost 100, in early June?
You mean just like it was in 1899, 1914, 1925, 1933, 1959, 1984, and 1999?
Congrats. Incognegro was technically incorrect in his flippant implication that local weather trends have anything to do with global warming, but rather than correct him by saying that local weather trends are not meaningful in this regard, you jumped in and threw out your own irrelevant observations.