Top physicist on climate change....

Jose Fly

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This is just like watching how creationists approach biology and evolution. With both evolution and global warming, one or two scientists dissenting from the consensus is extremely compelling....so much so, they get headlines, interviews, articles, etc., in conservative Christian media.

Yet the tens of thousands of scientists who make up the consensus are just waved away as inconsequential and not at all compelling.

If I didn't know better, I'd say they were doing it on purpose as a way to teach the public about confirmation bias.
 

Jose Fly

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Meanwhile, 2015 is setting up to be yet another hottest year on record. If that happens (and it's about a 95% probability that it will), of the 15 warmest years on record, 14 will have occurred since 2000. And you know when the last coldest record was set? 1911.
 

ok doser

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Meanwhile, 2015 is setting up to be yet another hottest year on record. If that happens (and it's about a 95% probability that it will), of the 15 warmest years on record, 14 will have occurred since 2000. And you know when the last coldest record was set? 1911.

shouldn't that be expected as we continue to come out of the last ice age?

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ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
Nope. The data shows that coming out of glacial periods takes thousands of years.

and that graph shows we've been at it for the past couple thousand years

and that we have a ways to go before we reach historic high normals for interglacial periods


if anything, an examination of that graph shows that we stalled in the regular increase, compared to previous patterns
 

Jose Fly

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and that graph shows we've been at it for the past couple thousand years

And if you zoom in on the current trend, the warming is accelerating at an unprecedented rate.

and that we have a ways to go before we reach historic high normals for interglacial periods

All the past warming trends had identifiable natural causes. The current one however doesn't. It's only when human activities are factored in that the trend is explained.


if anything, an examination of that graph shows that we stalled in the regular increase, compared to previous patterns

See above.
 

ok doser

lifeguard at the cement pond
Like I said, the previous warming trends had identifiable natural causes. What do you think is driving the current trend, if not human activity

what "identifiable natural causes" drove the last two warming events?
 
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