Global warming has quickly become one of the most heated issues in America (pun intended). Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming, but is this global heat wave a man-made crisis or just overblown hype?
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Climate Forecasts Inaccurate
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By National Center for Policy Analysis - Seeking Private Sector Solutions
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Climate Scientists doubt model accuracy
Surveys of climate scientists conducted in 1996 and 2003 by two German
environmental scientists, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch.
More than 530 climate scientists from 27 different countries
provided numerical answers each time the survey was conducted. All
responses were anonymous.
A much greater number of respondants expressed doubt concerning forecast models and their accuracies.
- mostly a conservative August 21, 2008 8:38AM
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Another Ice Age, The Global Cooling Threat
You know I find it ironic that in 1970's many climate Scientist listed the same reasons for Global Cooling. This is more about money and politics than science. Many are cashing in on this by giving speeches and selling products. Come on America, let’s do some real research and give true facts. The best way to know if humans cause Global warming is to compare and contrast temperatures recorded over the many years, and the amount of fossile fuel being used. See 1974 "another Ice Age?" in Time Magazine.
- rkiser
September 25, 2008 3:31PM
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It's 2008
In the '70s I taught that another ice age (interglacial actually) was due (in another 500 years plus or minus 400). In the 80s, the exponential increase in CO2 appeared, and I heard my first convincing lecture that since this is a greenhouse gas (this effect was also taught in the beginning atmospheric science class) it is a no-brainer that this will cause warming. Since the 80s, the only real question was how much, with the ancillary question (red-herring?) is it anthropomorphically caused? Since the 90s, survey reports at the highest level all concur that the globe is warming and mankind is contributing to it, with agreement of about 99% of climate experts. Since the 2000s, it appears the estimates of warming were for too little and too late, and expert climatologist critics have disappeared. What's nice about predicting warming is that the data is coming in much faster than expected, and we will know during my lifetime!
- bobbrown
November 25, 2008 1:35PM
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It is about money & politics
I don't know about the cash and products for global warming scientists (I do get $200 honorarium occasionally). You could double all climate experts' salaries for less than $1,000,000/yr, which is about 1/100th the yearly intake of any one of the 40 richest people who are oilmen.
- bobbrown
November 25, 2008 1:40PM
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