Carnivore 69 wrote:
This T-Rex guy is a liberal imbecile (troll) who is just stirring the pot because he is bored. He has been doing this for years.
And Blowing Rock Master, Shawn H, and now this "neither a lib nor" guy are right-wing shitheads (trolls) who are doing exactly the same thing -- except that T-Rex, insufferable as he may be, has the scientific consensus on his side and a handle on the facts, whereas the others might as well have brain damage and are only regurgitating what used to be the party line (intelligent and honest conservatives stopped agitating against AGW some time ago).
Blowing Rock Master! wrote:
Humans have caused CO2 to go up (empirical data shows this to be true). CO2 absorbs thermal energy, all other things being equal (again true this has been shown experimentally). Thus humans must be the cause for the current warming.
Unfortunately, this theory falls apart in the last sentence. Despite what you claim there is a well developed alternative explanation - natural causes. The current warming predates the human addition of CO2, and temperature rise has not accelerated as CO2 is added. In fact temperatures haven't risen at all in nearly 2 decades.
Oh, got it. It must be EITHER a natural trend OR an entirely human-caused one. No reason the latter could be superimposed on the former. Yep, that's exactly what climatologists are saying, and it's a good thing smart outsiders like you are here to set those eggheads straight. And the "no warming since 1998" -- and randomly pushing it back to 1994 -- BOOM! I don't think that earth science can withstand such a powerful (and original) one-two punch.
If you are genuinely stuck at this primitive level of discussing AGW, you should either read up, stop clogging the interweb with your tiresome bullshit, or simply admit that you're trolling.
And, I'll pass on lessons in how humans think from a deluded redneck, although that was great for a chuckle!