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State of Fear, Michael Chrichton
Ah, I read that a few years ago. Usually he used pseudo-facts to enforce a point (like a character saying something in a way that the reader assumes it's true), and there was some of that, but this time he had many real sources, which was impressive.
Anyway, we only have about 130 years of recorded temperature data to work with, and some of that might not be accurate. Any assumption of the cause this early is still just an assumption. Corelation=/=causation.
-Polar Ice caps are actually freezing up. There is one tiny piece of Antarctica that is melting, and the general mass is not aware of this. The ice in Greenland and Antarctica can expand up to 11km daily.
This is fallacious as Antarctica isn't exactly the best example for the effect of climate change. Usually, it is not the Antarctic we talk about, but the Arctic, which has been declining:
"Sea ice near the Antarctic Peninsula, south of the tip of South America, has recently experienced a significant decline. The rest of Antarctica has experienced a small increase in Antarctic sea ice.
Antarctica and the Arctic are reacting differently to climate change partly because of geographical differences. Antarctica is a continent surrounded by water, while the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land. Wind and ocean currents around Antarctica isolate the continent from global weather patterns, keeping it cold. In contrast, the Arctic Ocean is intimately linked with the climate systems around it, making it more sensitive to changes in climate."
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-CO2 has risen by quite a step in the last 150 years. But, it does not in any way correlate with the warming of the Earth. From the 1940-1970's, CO2 has risen a lot, but during these 30 years the earth got colder.
CO2 isn't necessarily the most important agent causing warming of the atmosphere, but it is correlated to temperature nonetheless. Probably not significant in small timelapses, as it might need some time to react (causing the apparent dissimilarity); but this is what we see in bigger timelapses:
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-Urban Heat Island effect. Major cities like New York City are rising in temperature due to concrete and asphalt everywhere. In nearby cities in the same state(Albany in this case), the temperature decreased. New York city, from 1822-1993 the temperature has risen by 4,2 degrees Fahrenheit
Albany which is not far from NYC, 1820-2000, temperature decreases from 49.5 - 47.5 degrees fahrenheit.
Climate change doesn't meant hat it gets hotter everywhere; this is a fallacious statement usually proclamied only by the opponents of climate change. It's very possible that it gets cooler locally, and I'm not surprised that cities, which have a huge ecological impact, influence local climate that way.
also to add to the lies, the chart they will show you saying that the temperatures are going up so much, they're real charts, they just blow them up and make it look like it's going really far up when in reality it hasn't even gone up 2 degrees (Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, in fact i don't think that it even went up 1 degree in the last 50 or more (don't remember) years.
Earth does get warmer, maybe not by one degree in the last 50 years, but behold the evidence from the NASA Earth Observatory:
"According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASAâs Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and shown in this series of maps, the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8°Celsius (1.4°Fahrenheit) since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20°C per decade."
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people say there's global warming, then some place will go and get a record low temperature, it's kinda funny really.
Again - regional records, cold or hot, are part of climate change, because climate change means climate deregulation, and the effects aren't the same everywhere; but globally, over time, earth is heating up and it is perfectly natural as we are getting out of a glacial period. Humans are merely speeding the process up a little, nothing more.
In conclusion: climate change is a reality, live with it.