With all due respect, the globe is warming, human activity is largely responsible, and this is a matter of settled science which is not controversial.
Scientific opinion on climate change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/
From the latter,
Specifically, the "
consensus" about anthropogenic climate change entails the following:
- the climate is undergoing a pronounced warming trend beyond the range of natural variability;
- the major cause of most of the observed warming is rising levels of the greenhouse gas CO2;
- the rise in CO2 is the result of burning fossil fuels;
- if CO2 continues to rise over the next century, the warming will continue; and
- a climate change of the projected magnitude over this time frame represents potential danger to human welfare and the environment.
While theories and viewpoints in conflict with the above do exist, their proponents constitute a very small minority. If we require unanimity before being confident, well, we can't be sure the earth isn't hollow either.
Not one scientific body of any stature disputes the fact that humans are warming the climate. The most radical position is non-committal. NO BODY is actively disputing this, though of course there are always a few contrarian scientists. How can this be if there is so much doubt about global warming?
What you're hearing is an organized disinformation campaign of FUD run by oil industry interests and a few rabidly anti-regulation organizations politicizing the science.
Try asking actual scientists, and reading peer-reviewed material, and you will see there is nothing to global warming denial. It is baseless junk science.
Let's stick to satellites rather than political disinformation.
-- ross
