Much to learn?! Oh please. This is starting to move past sad and into more obvious spaces. If you left this thread reason would prevail and reasonable people could engage in a more nuanced discussion around an important, global topic that is complicated and requires real academic material to work with.
So far your contributions have been: 1) insults 2) inane, empty one liner pieces of rhetoric 3) claims that everyone else is ignorant and needs to be educated by your fringe, pro-oil bunk 4) an absolute inability to respond to the basic critcisms of #3. If that's all you can provide and are unable to respond to critiques without resorting to tactics 1-4 then yes, please, exit stage left.
What's interesting for me is that just some simple, basic research of climate change provides ample evidence of a human created crisis that is repeated by mainstream, independent and academic media worldwide. It's not fringy, inaccurate, billionaire sponsored drivel or cherry picked pseudo science. It's not sponsored by some mythic global warming conspiracy cartel. It's a cross section of what reaonable journalists, scientists and academic institutions are talking about. For example:
Official prophecy of doom: Global warming will cause widespread conflict, displace millions of people and devastate the global economy - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent
Climate Change: News - Long-term warming likely to be significant despite recent slowdown
The frozen truth about glaciers, climate change and our future -- ScienceDaily
Climate change will reduce crops sooner than expected, says study - Technology & Science - CBC News
Global warming melts last stable edge of Greenland's Zachariae ice stream, scientists say - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/scientists-sound-alarm-on-climate.html?_r=0
The material below is an excerpt from the above link and it provides what I would describe to be balanced look at the problem...
alot of effort went into that reply, but again it is very simple, 1978 to 1998 1 degree rise in global temperature, 98 to 2014 no rise.
that's NOT global warming.
The report warns that the effects of human emissions of heat-trapping gases are already being felt, that the ultimate consequences
could be dire, and that the window to do something about it is closing.
“The evidence is overwhelming: Levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising,” says the report. “
Temperatures are going up. Springs are arriving earlier. Ice sheets are melting. Sea level is rising. The patterns of rainfall and drought are changing. Heat waves are getting worse, as is extreme precipitation. The oceans are acidifying.”
In a sense, this is just one more report about global warming in a string going back decades. For anybody who was already paying attention, the report contains no new science. But the language in the 18-page report, called “What We Know,” is sharper, clearer and more accessible than perhaps anything the scientific community has put out to date.
And the association does not plan to stop with the report. The group, with a membership of 121,200 scientists and science supporters around the world, plans a broad outreach campaign to put forward accurate information in simple language.
The scientists are essentially trying to use their powers of persuasion to cut through public confusion over this issue.
[and secure another decades income].
Polls show that most Americans are at least somewhat worried about global warming. But people generally do not understand that the problem is urgent — that the fate of future generations (not necessarily that far in the future) is being determined by emission levels now. Moreover, the average citizen tends to think there is more scientific debate about the basics than there really is.
The report emphasizes that the experts have come to a consensus, with only a few dissenters. “Based on well-established evidence, about 97 percent of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening,” it says.
That is not the same as claiming that all questions about climate change have been answered. In fact, enormous questions, remain, and
the science of global warming entails a robust, evolving discussion.
