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well yes and no there shouldn't be a debate but it's not real in fact my science book showed the chart that the global warming people use and it has gone up allot until they show that they basicly zoomed in a bunch and that the temperature over like the last 40 or so years has gone up either 0.1 degree fierinhiet or 1.0 degrees as an average temperature so unless you're saying that 1 degree should be considered a problem then there's nothing left to discuss on the matter
"Hansen et al. 2006
Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, R. Ruedy, K. Lo, D.W. Lea, and M. Medina-Elizade, 2006: Global temperature change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 103, 14288-14293, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606291103.
Global surface temperature has increased â0.2°C per decade in the past 30 years, similar to the warming rate predicted in the 1980s in initial global climate model simulations with transient greenhouse gas changes. Warming is larger in the Western Equatorial Pacific than in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the past century, and we suggest that the increased West-East temperature gradient may have increased the likelihood of strong El Niños, such as those of 1983 and 1998. Comparison of measured sea surface temperatures in the Western Pacific with paleoclimate data suggests that this critical ocean region, and probably the planet as a whole, is approximately as warm now as at the Holocene maximum and within â1°C of the maximum temperature of the past million years. We conclude that global warming of more than â1°C, relative to 2000, will constitute "dangerous" climate change as judged from likely effects on sea level and extermination of species."
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Anyway it is real, the arctic is already experiencing the consequences, and I'm not even talking about polar bears and walruses; I'm talking about people. Especially the ones from that TV reportage, I found it again; it's the town of Shishmaref
