climate change: natural vs. man-made
I’ve got a chart here and I’m not afraid to use it! In a paper which examined temperature and carbon dioxide patterns in the atmosphere based on ice cores taken from Antarctica, there’s an interesting graph that represents climate oscillations over the past 350,000 years. And it looks exactly like this.
Through the tens of thousands of years we see nature merrily going along, getting a little warmer and a little cooler, adding a touch of carbon here and losing it there. Then, we get to the time of the Industrial Revolution and both indicators just take off like a rocket. For people who deny climate change on the grounds that what we see today could be just a natural cycle, there you go. It’s not just a natural cycle that carbon dioxide and global temperatures increase so drastically right at the time when we’re pumping greenhouses gases into the atmosphere on an industrial scale. Even if we’re going through a normal warming cycle right now, we’re severely exacerbating it with our pollution.
Look, a few hundred parts per million of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases make our planet warm enough to allow for a relatively moderate climate and complex life. What do you think will happen when we pump out a few hundred ppm more? Will chemistry suddenly decide to stop raising the planet’s temperature accordingly? Will physics grind to a half for our personal convenience and let people terrified of having to spend anything on making our world a better place keep the status quo? If the fate of other living things on our planet is any indication, nature really doesn’t care about our views and ideologies. We destroy our environment at our own peril.
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Greg, you are totally wrong. That isn’t a correlation you’ve got there, it’s all lies! The graphs are fixed, those idiot mainstreamers are up to their old tricks again.
Now, do you want to know the real correlation? Our sun is driven by electrical currents (none of this nuclear fusion nonsense — please, they must think we’re really stupid), and as observed by Dr Dick Turpin in 1750, the whole universe is driven by a natural oscillation in the ether, generating charge and therefore current.
Taking this age-old EXPERIMENTALLY PROVEN belief, we can link it with absolutely every unknown phenomenon known to man. And that includes global warming. Believe me, I’ve seen the output from my own cutting-edge program I coded MYSELF and there is a very real link between electricity, the sun and climate change.
Jeez. And they pay scientists HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars to prove what I did in my basement?
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Wow… I just read that again, and I think I just convinced myself of my oscillation ether
belieftheory ;)Nice bit of chart use there… but unfortunately direct evidence and scientific analysis will never be enough for the cranks out there.
Nice pic by the way :)
Cheers, Ian
The graphs only diverge after the birth of Al Gore, Jr. What more proof do you need that global warming is just a nutjob liberal conspiracy to shed private sector manufacturing jobs and have the government take over the economy?