Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith

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And yet, those evangelicals share one thing in common with the climate change deniers. Both believe in ####### that has absolutely no basis in science. The evangelicals with their belief in God () and the deniers with their denial.

When did one form of stupidity become superior to another form of stupidity?

That's just not nice.

Edited October 22, 2010 by chri'stina

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The maximum total change in atmospheric CO2 concentration due to man of about 0.01% over the last 100 years. Our contribution to the total amount of CO2 is almost none. Besides, CO2 is a minor green house gas. Things like water vapor and methane are the real gasses that cause our planet to warm.

I will repeat it, there is no evidence that man is causing the planet to warm.

Say what? Do you know how many billions of tons of CO2 that come from fossil fuels? This is where you denialists get kooky, because when it gets down to the nuts and bolts of Climate Change, you deny even some of the most basic, fundamental facts and data. (see graph below)

To say that CO2 from emissions is insignificant and then say, "besides CO2 is minor green house gas" is just loony. You are wrong on even the most, basic fundamental science of greenhouse gases.

Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Temperature

Figure 1: Fluctuations in temperature (red line) and in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (yellow) over the past 649,000 years. The vertical red bar at the end is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past two centuries and before 2007.

References

CO2 Data

647426 BC to 411548 BC: Siegenthaler, U., T. F. Stocker, E. Monnin, D. Lüthi, J. Schwander, B. Stauffer, D. Raynaud, J.M. Barnola, H. Fischer, V. Masson-Delmotte, and J. Jouzel. 2005. Stable Carbon Cycle-Climate Relationship During the Late Pleistocene. Science 310: 1313-1317. Data

415157 BC to 339 BC: Barnola, J.-M., D. Raynaud, C. Lorius, and N.I. Barkov. 2003. Historical CO2 record from the Vostok ice core. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A. Data

9002 BC to 1515 AD: Flückiger, J., E. Mono2_mm nin, B. Stauffer, J. Schwander, T.F. Stocker, J. Chappellaz, D. Raynaud, and J.-M. Barnola, 2002, High resolution Holocene N2O ice core record and its relationship with CH4 and CO2, Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2002, 10.1029/2001GB001417. Data

1010 AD to 1978 AD: D.M. Etheridge, L.P. Steele, R.L. Langenfelds, R.J. Francey, J.-M. Barnola and V.I. Morgan. 1998. Historical CO2 records from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS ice cores. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A. Data

1958-2006 AD: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division. 2007. Monthly Mean CO2 concentrations from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. (Accessed May 29, 2007). Data

Temperature Data

420,765 BC to 2000 AD: Petit J.R., J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, N.I. Barkov, J.M. Barnola, I. Basile, M. Bender, J. Chappellaz, J. Davis, G. Delaygue, M. Delmotte, V.M. Kotlyakov, M. Legrand, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, L. Pépin, C. Ritz, E. Saltzman, and M. Stievenard. 1999. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica. Nature 399:429-436. Data

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