Climate Change 6of12: Exaggeration and Biased Samples

[david222444]

Water vapour? This acts as a negative feedback. The greenhouse theory should be scrapped now.

[Desertphile]

@david222444 ; Idiot.

[david222444]

@Desertphile Eco dunce

[Desertphile]

@david222444 ; What?

[david222444]

@Desertphile You are wearing the wrong hat, it should come to a point and be cone shaped.

[Desertphile]

@david222444 ; What? Hat?

[david222444]

@Desertphile The Eco Dunce hat! doh!

[Desertphile]

@david222444 ; Huh?

[david222444]

@Desertphile LOL

[Desertphile]

@david222444 ; I'm sorry: what?

[gertomaniac]

yeah, fuck al gore.

[VRJensen1]

Dr Steven W Running

published an interesting article in

Science Magazine in Aug of 2006 Concerning the increased Severity and number of wildfires.

Maybe it's cherry Picking and maybe it's just a different area of focus... Whatever

I found it online and thought it was interesting, and backed up well.

[citimeta]

most of the greenhouse effect is coming from clouds. That has to be mentioned!

[VRJensen1]

Citimeta

Thanks for playing.

Clouds in general reflect sunlight....

and therefore Decrease the Greenhouse Effect.

Unless you are talking about clouds of Black Soot that comes from the burning of Coal, or Forests etc. These clouds are commonly known as Smog.

Smog soaks up heat and increases the Greenhouse effect.

[citimeta]

no. clouds do not only reflect sunlight. they interact with longwave radiation too, which is the same as CO2 and other greenhouse gases. And, they are much more dominant in terms of this effect. Small changes in clouds can totally swamp any other greenhouse effect agent.

[jaschemasch]

lol he seems so upset at the end about Al Gore being famous. I understand though. To me Al Gore has never been a scientist but if he has done way more for the planet than some scientists have, just by making the public aware.

[theinquisitor]

Perhaps, but he exaggerated the problem in an attempt to get people to act. When people found out some of his claims were false, they assumed all of his claims were false. This is the danger of overstating your case.

In the long term, he did a lot of damage by making this look like a political movement instead of a scientific problem. Those who oppose his politics now think global warming is a political hoax because they can show that he lied and exaggerated.

[jaschemasch]

You are right. I watched all the videos after this one yesterday and now I understand what the problem is. Thanks for uploading.

[gluecement]

@theinquisitor

But if you think about it, if it wasn't for Al Gore, this country probably wouldn't even be talking about global warming in any serious way. So, yes, he did some damage by exaggerating certain points, but he got people (mainly apathetic Americans) into the discussion. It's better having heated/controversial arguments than complete disregard.

[watercup123456]

@theinquisitor What did he lie or exaggerate?

The models he shows of sea level rise and the result are just that - models. I've seen those same models, and they are based on good science.

I've looked at critiques of al gore's movie and they all come up short. His lecture at the time was based on the best science of the time.

The only damage comes from rethuglicon liars and their cronies who make money off of pollution and want to deny the effects pollution has, particularly air pollution.

[DeletedDelusion]

Al Gore was the name most people mentioned when asked to name a living scientist?

Big surprise. LOL

Well, maybe it's time for real scientist to come out of their closets and do some public relations, even if it's only for the reason that the public to some part pais for the research most scientists do.

[ronpaulbot]

If the population of the US was polled to name a living football player, they would have no problem. The fact that Al Gore was named in the poll just shows how scientifically uninformed the public is.