Written by Robert W Felix, who coincidentally has a self-published book out now about climate change - his background? An architect. Here's one quote about him:
George Monbiot wrote:Iceagenow was constructed by a man called Robert W Felix to
promote his self-published book about “the coming ice age”. It claims that sea levels are
falling, not rising; that the Asian tsunami was caused by the “ice age cycle”; and that
“underwater volcanic activity – not human activity – is heating the seas”.
Is Felix a climatologist, a volcanologist or an oceanographer? Er, none of the above. His
biography describes him as a “former architect”. His website is so bonkers that I thought
at first it was a spoof. Sadly, he appears to believe what he says.
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Here's another quote from that same article:
"There is not anything inherently contradictory that extreme cold is replaced by higher temperatures than average. Or that melting sea ice occasionally is replaced by expanding ice sheets.
'Weather is a phenomenon which changes from year to year and right now the atmosphere has changed so we have cold weather. That will certainly mean that melting ice in the North Pole will be less this year, but next year the situation can look completely different,' according to [no first name given] Henriksen.
To sum things up, global warming hasn't been called off."
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Here's the evidence this article cites:
"A Canadian Icecap emailer noted during the cold war there were two massive radar sites built on the Greenland icecap now abandoned. They are called Dye-2 and Dye-3. When built they sat high above the snow, recent pictures show how the snow is building up around them, proving the snow build-up in recent times."
This is the first section of the wikipedia entry for the author - he must be a scientist right?
wikipedia wrote:Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American paleoconservative[1] talk radio host and filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show airs via the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.[2] Various observers have referred to him as a conspiracy theorist.
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Oooh this one's good - you should really read your articles before you cite them, they may be saying the opposite of what you want!!
Your article you fool!! wrote:The most commonly cited study by skeptics is a study by scientists from Finland and Germany that finds the sun has been more active in the last 60 years than anytime in the past 1150 years (Usoskin 2005). They also found temperatures closely correlate to solar activity.
However, a crucial finding of the study was the correlation between solar activity and temperature ended around 1975. At that point, temperatures rose while solar activity stayed level. This led them to conclude "during these last 30 years the solar total irradiance, solar UV irradiance and cosmic ray flux has not shown any significant secular trend, so that at least this most recent warming episode must have another source."
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I like this article, it's balanced and has some interesting points - here's my favourite quote from it.
"After all, that's all it is, a theory. As soon as people start to state that 'the debate is over', beware, because the fundamental basis of all sciences is that debate is never over, that questions must be asked and answered and issues raised in order for the science to be accurate."
So, 4 out of 5 article are either not written by a credible source or argue the opposite to your position. One article points out we must continue to question all aspects of a theory and keep doing so if we are to be considered good scientists. Great! Question, but don't be upset when you get answers you don't like!!
This still stands:
xelabale wrote:The fact is there is evidence that it is happening, but it is not clear why. One of the factors that may cause global warming is human activity. As global warming is a bad thing, we should explore what we can do to stop it. We cannot affect solar flares, we can adjust our behaviour, which is unsustainable regardless of whether GW exists. Therefore we should adjust our behaviour. Therefore people who don't are selfish pricks.
). When you're on the field you don't try to do your fair share of the work so your team can win, you try to do as much as you possibly can, and even if you've contributed twice as much as the next best player on the team, you don't stop and have a rest because you've "done your bit," you keep playing as hard as you can, because the goal isn't for everybody to do their fair share, the goal is to win, and if you win because everybody works equally hard, or because a few people carry the team across the line, the final result is the same. Of course it's a lot easier to win football when everybody puts in a strong effort, but people not making enough effort has never been something that stops me from trying to play at my best.
). But this question is exactly the point. 4 scenarios:
