Climate Change

" In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” - Galileo Galilei 

Two decades ago, we posted our first website on Climate Change primarily because we could not find meaningful discussion on the Climate Debate. We gathered what we found. By 2013, we shared an objective discussion.  But by 2022, it appears the warnings of a climate problem is definite.

 

     It has become standard practice for both camps in the discussion on Climate Change to claim the extreme opinions of the other represent the opposition, for example we have the Deniers and the Alarmists.  Neither label is a fair representation of the facts.  Here's how the changes 2013 facts changed our position.

      What in 2022, deniers no longer have evidence their once belief (comments changed):

• The science of global climate change is mostly settled.  Much has become known.
• Very few competent scientists are deniers. Those who attempt the debate are rejecting science.
• The planet has warmed in the last century from a little ice age in the middle of the 19'th century.  
• The temperature has increased significantly in the last decade.  All the initial global warming models were exaggerated and the warmist had no scientifically verified explanation for the 2008 to 2018 pause in the temperature increase. However, the temperature increase has resumed and likely to accelerate in the future.  The science mostly settled.
• Human activity contributes to that warming in the form of deforestation, urbanization, and burning of fossil fuels,  However, proxy evidence shows dramatic temperature anomalies when humans could not have contributed.
• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is necessary for most life forms on earth.  It is NOT a pollutant. However, in the last decade CO2 concentration continues from 380 ppm to 420 ppm
  
• The exponential impact of carbon dioxide in global warming has leveled. However, methane a more dangerous warming agent is expanding. Two-degree centigrade change by 2100 exceeds fears of the claims of even the more conservative warmists. 
• The models predicting disastrous temperature increase of positive feedback mechanisms seen certain.
• Arctic and Antarctic ice is decreasing.
• Fossil fuels critical to the economic well-being of humankind will be exhausted before the end of the 21st century.  Pressure to conserve and to develop alternate energy source is wise. 

    Although Climate Science is too complex for almost anyone to understand, the evidence has ended a continuing debate!  Few credible scientists disagree with the observation that the earth is warming. The disagreement has become -- how much has the planet warmed and how bad is it going to be. 

     The implications of Climate Change are pronounced. If those arguing the case of AGW are right, the planet could be heating to levels threatening to the current way of life.  It could lead to devastating wars as populations fight for diminishing resources.
      Even the blog the Resilient Earth that once summarized our opinion of the position taken by CSI (which subscribed to CSICOP since 1995), is no longer available to challenge CSI.

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     We find little value to compare the various claims regarding Climate Change. Readers can check out the website WATTS UP WITH THAT.  It has a huge amount of resource material.