Looking for help sorting all you hear regarding Global Warming? Take a trip to the New Scientist Magazine web site and make the Climate change: A guide for the perplexed your starting point.
In the article there you’ll find links to the excellent article that can serve a your guide to accessing the evidenc: Climate myths: Assessing the evidence as well as links to myths such as:
- Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
- We can’t do anything about climate change
- The ‘hockey stick’ graph has been proven wrong
- Chaotic systems are not predictable
- We can’t trust computer models of climate
- They predicted global cooling in the 1970s
- It’s been far warmer in the past, what’s the big deal?
- It’s too cold where I live – warming will be great
- Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans
- It’s all down to cosmic rays
- CO2 isn’t the most important greenhouse gas
- The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming
- Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming
- The oceans are cooling
- The cooling after 1940 shows CO2 does not cause warming
- It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England
- We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age
- Warming will cause an ice age in Europe
- Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature rises, disproving the link to global warming
- Ice cores show CO2 rising as temperatures fell
- Mars and Pluto are warming too
- Many leading scientists question climate change
- It’s all a conspiracy
- Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming
- Higher CO2 levels will boost plant growth and food production
- Polar bear numbers are increasing
why is it we need to study about global warming?
what is the rationally about global warming?
Even letting the debate continue, when our species may hang in the balance, says something about us. I argue that there is a certain presumptuousness surrounding our approach to how we are addressing global warming that goes well beyond simply having a short-term perspective. What if the cockroach has a more sustainable position? I recommend the following post: http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/climatic-presumption-what-is-the-forecast/