An excellent graphic from Watts Up With That?
Follow the link for more explanation, and for links to other versions of this graphic, including a Youtube version with useful annotations.
Everybody’s favorite weasel-girl did an early version of this using WUWT’s original charts.
Tags: global warming, SWeasel, Watts Up With That
…so, it’s just coincidence that we see a precipitous increase in global temperatures starting right around when humans (in the mid-1800s) first started burning fossil fuels on such an industrial scale? When you have a correlation like the one between atmospheric carbon dioxide content and the overall temperature of the earth, it’s just plain foolish to brush it off as alarmism. It’s vital to at least do the research on climate change, rather than assume that it’s not real and cherry-pick the “studies” that support your point (especially since those “studies”, like many in the pharmaceutical industry, are usually run with a particular result intended).
And this kind of warming is not “unprecedented”, obviously. When has it been seen before in geologically recent time? When the earth was coming out of a fucking ICE AGE. We are now out of an ice age. By all rights, we should not be seeing the kind of warming that we have. Until some other explanation for this extra influx of heat is proposed and supported, the only scientifically honest and rational thing to do is to proceed under the premise that human-released CO2 is the primary factor behind this warming.
I am a scientist, Dave. I could eat you for lunch on any of these topics in a fair and impartially moderated debate. I imagine you don’t want to test me on this, though.
Go shove a hockey stick up your ass,
venomlash
“I am a scientist, Dave.”
Oh, I say. Well done.
In a single throw, you have demonstrated that you are not a scientist, at least in attitude; and you concede the argument, by falling back on what looks to be very spurious authority.