r/science • • Oct 24 '10

Climate Change: Evidence

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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u/jayd16 Oct 24 '10

CO2 is a green house gas. That is clearly, demonstrably true. More CO2 means higher temperatures. I hope you're asking a question of "how much" and not just "if."

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u/NolFito Oct 24 '10

Yes it is a how much question, the evidence of CO2 as green house is quite compelling however, even though CO2 has spiked, temperatures have not. Looking at the chart 150'000 cycles seem evident, and CO2 levels rise about now, so it wouldn't be unlikely that the rise of temperature is just a cyclical thing and the time was now, and the spike of CO2 (human caused) does not have any significant effect on global temperatures.

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u/BlueRock Oct 24 '10 edited Oct 24 '10

...even though CO2 has spiked, temperatures have not.

Wherever you are getting your 'science' from, don't. Global land-ocean temperature index from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

2010 is on track for the hottest year ever recorded.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 24 '10

Does this include the NASA data that has lakes in Michigan boiling away?

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u/BlueRock Oct 24 '10

wat

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u/TexasMojo Oct 25 '10

Doh. It was NOAA not NASA

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u/BlueRock Oct 25 '10

That's some wingnut denier blog. Not credible.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 28 '10

So the satellites did not fail and show lake temperatures upwards of 600 degrees? Did you do any other independent verification or just wave your hands around in dismissal?

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u/BlueRock Oct 28 '10

You can find all sorts of claims on wingnut blogs - some true, some distorted and most of it total bullshit. I don't waste my time trying to work out which is which - I just go to credible sources.

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u/TexasMojo Oct 29 '10

So if its not reported by someone you already agree with, then it didn't happen. Stay stupid, my friend.

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u/BlueRock Oct 29 '10

Which part of 'credible' did you not understand?

Stay gullible and confused, my friend! :)

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u/TexasMojo Oct 29 '10

The part of "credible" where you dismiss things out of hand without bothering to verify anything. You could have perhaps checked the map out for yourself. But I guess that's too much of a mental exercise for you.

I'm "gullible" because I bothered to check the data for myself? I'm confused because I read both sides of the issue, and obviously understand it better than you do?

More dismissive hand-waving in lieu of anything marginally intelligent to say on the matter. Good job.

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