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  • Awesome video! Awesome job! Thank you for the free education!

    This stuff is NOT instantly easy, anymore than a person can pick up a musical instrument for the first time ever and play beautifully just because professional musicians make it look easy. (Mozart had to practice, too.)

  • Great Video bro, really informative

  • This graph is bogus. CO2 did not fall in a smooth curve as shown. It fluctuated wildly from 4000ppm to 7000ppm then up & down in steps to its low 300M yrs ago.

    This however avoids the point made in the beginning. CO2 traps heat. NO matter how it got there levels were 14 times higher than now. So why no runaway global warming? The sun was only 5% (maybe) less than now. Dispite CO2 warming, water vapor is the gas that controls our climate.

    The temp has been warming since the last ice age.

  • THANK YOU. I was looking for articles that do some hard scientific investigation into climate change, but ALL of them seem to have an agenda and have made up their mind. At the very least you kept it concentrated to the science rather than some arbitrary political view. You have no idea how much reading through bullsh*t you saved me.

  • Carbon dioxide makes up .0039% of our atmosphere.. our coal powerplants inject .000000001948% more per year... that accounts for HALF of human C02 pollution. The total amount is .000000003496% . the trees in the continental US ALONE absorb that much and turn it back into oxegen. Dont believe me? watch this- watch?v=A4sg8uwzOVE . I did the math you can do it too. Find the answers on your own. I did, and was surprised at the outcome.

  • @Tnekkc "lib hitler"? That's funny, I thought he was a fascist, which is on the right side of the political spectrum. You know, like bush started doing with the patriot act. A fascist authoritarian government is not the same as liberal, no matter how many times rush and Glenn tell you it is. You make yourself and ppl with your view look dumb when you confuse facts and history like that.

  • This is one of the BEST global warming hoaxer videos I have seen.

    It starts out with reality, and then gets to the liberal spin.

    But we didn't give the keys to that lib Hitler with his "Master race" song and dance, and we are not going to give them to that lib Obama with "The time for debate is over" song and dance.

  • Excellent stuff. Keep it up.

  • I don't get that graph. What the hell happened to the CO2-temperature lag that the ice core data shows? CO2 and temperature are all over the place in that graph, yet they correlate almost perfectly in the ice core data. Does the lag only apply for the last 400,000 years or something? What gives?

  • @DeadlyV1RU5 Yes. The correlation only really applies to the period of balance, however the other important point to note is that the correlation overlays of the 400,000 year ice core graph are not at the same scale. They've superimposed the graphs over each other in the 400,000 year ice core graph, but they haven't really superimposed them in the 500mya graph.

  • @DeadlyV1RU5 Another way to think of it: imagine looking at a graph of the height of a bicycle with a badly damaged tire. If you did a graph of it going 100 feet, you'd see the little pattern of up and down with each tire rotation. If you put a graph of 100 miles on your screen, you'd just see the hills. So CO2 & temperature likely did have that pattern of CO2-temperature lag, but it isnt visible in the graph, (and I'm not sure if we have evidence on the right scale going back that far.)

  • @spaceshare That is a very good analogy. I'm gonna use that from now on. Cheers :)

  • This is a pretty good video. But looks can be deceiving.... We once had CO2 at far higher concentrations during an ice earth 300 ma. The feedback loop didn't turn us into Venus. It's not a simple feedback loop.

  • @realscience1 Do watch the video, I go over the ice age 460 mya, and the entire graph is somewhat irrelevant, but more of a talking point to say that people can now be informed on the basis of the CO2 temp history, but what's more important is to look at the current trends, not the past.

  • good job, well done! Especially the enlightening statement that CO2 hasn't always been the major driver of temperature change...just recently due to man-made activities, unparallelled in scope/time pace...

  • Well done!!! 5/5

  • Climate is more then just rising temperatures. Humans are a product of this earth just as CO2, rain, fog, mist etc. A large part of this planet is salty water. The climate change folks always forget that water evaporates when heated and eventually it condenses and forms clouds. If this clouds never turned to rain or snow then I would believe we in trouble. Look up the meaning of the word climate and you will get a surprise.

  • @MicrosoftsourceCode I've been watching this debate for about 25 years, and the "climate change folks" have been talking about water evaporation all that time, always including it in their models. Wherever you got that information from, it frankly doesn't seem like an honest mistake... is there even one peer reviewed model of the climate in the last 25 years that doesn't attempt to model clouds?

  • No point in showing this to AGW deniers. They can be shown graphs of ice loss, heat rise, etc but they won't believe anything until their homes are flooded, or droughts create a new "dust bowl". So talking sense makes no sense to them. Sad.

  • Nice work.

  • Could you send a link to this graph or file somewhere?

  • @blarginatorisback Which graph? The 500 MYA one? It was taken from "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and is used in the movie to suggest that because CO2 and temperature never had correlation in the past, their correlation in the present is insignificant. The problem with this logic being that in the past, other climate systems have been significant drivers, and the same could be said of any of those. CO2 however has direct correlation since 40 mya period of balance, with no outside influence.

  • Well done!!

  • nice work mate

  • The information you provided in this video only addressed bad effects of global cooling. Ice ages = death of plants and animals

    So what is the problem with global warming?

  • @Stonegoal Not quite... the information regarding the 500 MYA graph is meant to show that CO2 is not the sole determining factor in climate, and the argument that "CO2 was higher in the past" is fallacious. The many problems with global warming, whether it be man-made or not (though evidence strongly suggests it is), is ocean acidification, the destruction of pine forests in Canada (due to Pine Beetle pop. explosion), and other similar relationships, and too many other factors to mention here.

  • @Stonegoal it's not that global warming is a bad thing, it is perfectly natural, it is the rate of change which is the problem.

  • all well and good except man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere accounts for only about 3.23% of the total carbon dioxide, and total CO2 in the atmosphere accounts for only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases. this means that man made CO2 emissions account for only 0.117% of the greenhouse effect

  • @trenma09ac That doesn't necessarily follow. You can get disproportionate results with relatively small changes driving larger results. Not saying that's what's happening here, but it's something to be aware of.

  • @Muljinn @Muljinn Agreed. In this video he tells us that the CO2 levels lag about 800 years behind temperature. Does this mean that due to the feedback loop the opposite is true(temperature lags 800 years behind CO2 changes)? whether or not temperature lags behind CO2 changes at all, we do know for sure that CO2 changes DO NOT cause immediate increases in temperature, contrary to the example that is shown in this video.

  • @trenma09ac Actually, it's basic fact that CO2 produced causes immediate increases in temperature. Granted, they aren't drastic, infinitesimal in fact. And of course, there are reductions as well, photosynthesis being the obvious one, but ocean absorption etc.. are also very active CO2 sinks.

    I didn't look through the comments to find the string this conversation follows, but just want to make the message known that the intricate correlation of CO2 and temperature in stable times is intuitive.

  • @trenma09ac

    "man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere accounts for only about 3.23% of the total carbon dioxide, and total CO2 in the atmosphere accounts for only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases."

    You are a funny guy, so you say that 3.62% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is greenhouse gas, of which 3.62-3.23=0.39 % is of natural resources.

    Thus means 3.23/3.62= 89.2% human generated CO2 which is greenhouse gas.

  • great video

  • why aren't these charts presented as facts/evidence in copenhagen? it's not even considered.

  • @x11115 Because this only shows in the past, climate was driven by other factors. Currently, climate change is being instigated by CO2 forcing, as solar forcing has decreased as temperature has increased, and cloud cover is insignificant, and the two TYPES of clouds cancel each other's effects out.

  • There is no such thing as "common sense" (:33) The phrase is just a silly arrogant attempt to sound confident. Confidence doesn't always mean that you are correct.

  • @gunnermac70

    The willfully ignorant believe the crap he is preaching.

  • @gunnermac70

    Exactly so why is he the poster child for this scam? Because no credible objective scientist could be found to say the "earth's core is millions of degrees", "the polar ice will be gone in five years" etc etc.

  • You mean they don't get paid to do their work? They don't benefit from all the "research money" ? Guys like al gore don't make millions? Get a brain your not being objective.

    The last ten year trend is cooling and this winter is evidence just look at the headlines on Drudge.

  • They get paid to do their work, who doesn't? But they don't benefit from all the "research money". You don't see climate scientists driving around in ferraris.

    Gore isnt' a scientist. The last 10 year trend is not cooling. Rather than look at Drudge go and download the temperature records and you'll see "cooling" makes not one bit of sense.

  • @chillyhut11111

    Gore is your supreme leader of scientists on your side. He won an emmy ...or was that a peace prize. You must recognize he is the most intelligent "scientist/ politician/director/propagandi­st" on your side of the issue. Bow down and worship because the earth's core is millions of degrees (quote from al gore). He is your leader why deny it ...denier.

  • @1965ace

    Gore is your red herring, your bluff.

  • @chillyhut11111

    He's the smartest among you (which isn't saying much). He's your global warming King!!! Al Gore King of Carbon, your leader.

  • A lot of guess work and myopic tunnel vision. The evidence of "man made global warming" is contrary to the theory. Global temperatures are falling evidenced by the new name "climate change" and many science and weather experts. Oh it's true science for the naive and the global marxists new world order types who want to carbon tax us out of existence. I put my money on solar activity and water vapor which was ignored here (of course).

  • the last two letters of the acronymn IPCC are "climate change" and that body was formed 20 years ago. So what game are you playing claiming that some vague people are using a different name?

  • The name "climate change" is vague not the people. global warming is a lie just look at the recent temperatures, coldest winter on record in many places. These fools are just after money they haven't a clue how to predict temperature trends. I think its so funny how they are still clinging to the lies and now proven false theory's.

  • Scientists don't personally get grant money, the money has to be spent on the research only. A lot of the money designated for climate goes on satellites and other hardware.

    Recent temperatures are weather not climate. For example this November was the warmest November on record. Again weather.

  • Good vid. Looking forward to the next.

  • Good Vid

  • What credentials do the authors of this video have?

    This is very assumption based and poorly written.

  • Problems. .hmmm... Where do I start??? (They are actually quite numerous.)

    Your very basic premise is flawed.

    CO2 only absorbs infrared energy, and this on a very narrow band in the infrared, which is but a tiny portion of the energy which enters from the sun.

    IE, if we have 3 watts/meter of energy from the sun at any given point in time, only a very tiny amount of this CAN be absorbed by CO2. It is not like CO2 can absorb the 3 Watts per square meter.

  • the whole mechanism of the greenhouse effect works by co2 absorbing infrared emitted by the Earth, not by the Sun.

  • The emission of infrared they speak of is due to absorption/reflection of sunlight by the earth.

  • CO2 energy absorption is not linear. It has already by scientific estimate already reached close to saturation.

    This means more CO2 in atmosphere, no more real excessive heating. Logarithmic increase, not linear increase, with the amount of increase dropping rapidly after saturation.

    By the way, potholer54 is putting out disinformation. He does not 'explain' so much as 'explain away'.

    I have already found some major whitewashing in his estimation of the 'trick' e-mail he addressed.

  • Logarithmic increase yes, but co2 absorption in the atmosphere is not close to saturation.

  • piss-poor presentation

    comments mostly from those of far-below average intelligence

    'nuff said assclowns

  • CO2 is less than 0.04% of the atmosphere.

    Yet water vapor is over 4% of the atmosphere and it has the very same greenhouse gas properties as CO2.

  • That's only at the surface. Higher up in the atmosphere there is hardly any water vapor and co2 makes a big difference to blocking IR from reaching space.

  • Absorption and subsequent release of energy is omnidirectional. What this means is simply that a molecule of CO2 that absorbs infrared, doe not release the energy in only one direction, but in a full 360 degrees.

    Say for instance you had 1 watt of infrared absorbed by a give amount of gas, if the top side of the container was viewed as space, the energy released back downwards would eventually be approx. a maximum of half the energy it absorbed.

  • As far as the CO2 level somehow "bloacking" the infrared from reaching space?

    Even the densest CO2 in the lowest atmospheric layers do not block all infrared.

    The higher you go, the more density of atmosphere is lost. The ppm of CO2 has been shown to be fairly consistent, but that makes little distance when you space ALL molecules and atoms further apart.

    There is less probability of any given infrared packet ever contacting a CO2 molecule in the upper atmosphere.

    Atmosphere is a gas.

  • co2 doesn't have to block it all in order to significantly reduce IR into space.

  • You would make an excellent climate scientist at East Angliea Univeristy. Now maybe I am not very good at reading graphs but doesn't it strike you the least bit fishy that your C02 graph essentially zero's out and that it has been 20 times higher in the past?

  • Is the carbon dioxide level in the first graph about 1.5 % of atmosphere, if that is the case why no run away green house effect.

  • 73elephants

    'Why are so many chemists writing angry letters to their professional journal saying that AGW alarmism is pseudoscience?'

    It's patently clear if you use the almost unheard of analytical technique of READING, that:

    those that dispute the editorial are using tired and widely debunked denialist pseudo-scientific arguments. It's obvious that the point of this exercise was for idiots to unveil in the run-up to Copenhagen.

    Have you READ the editorial? Did you UNDERSTAND it?

  • I've read the editorial and the letters, and the editor's response. The letters are justly angry, because the editorial is dogmatic, alarmist, and full of ad hominem. It is also incorrect. The world has been warming since the 18th century, and most of that is not CO2 (but some is). We cannot predict natural forcings 100 years ahead. CO2 output could cause up to 2°C further warming under plausible assumptions. Sea levels could rise 40cm. Higher forecasts are silly, as is the alarmism..

  • 73elephants

    Where is the ad hominem? Vested interest groups have been buying bogus science and deceitful Op-Eds for decades. Now they're doing it about AGW. It's a fact.

    The science that supports the Denialists ranges from the heavily flawed bogus drivel to fraud. Not in any particular order: e.g. Baliunas & Soon 2003; Douglass et al. 2007; OISM; Miskolczi 2007; Gerlich & Tscheuschner - and you can add Plimer's drivel too!

  • There are vested interest groups involved on both sides. A lot of the backing for AGW alarmism that comes from alternative energy vendors (including oil companies) and financial speculators (including big banks). AGW actually gets much more money from vested interests than anti-AGW does. Being funded by an interested party does not invalidate one's research. The only things that invalidates research are flawed data and flawed methods.

  • Hmm. That post was badly edited. Never mind.

  • 73elephants

    You just keep on repeating the lies.

  • You're the one who is repeating lies.

    My above post contains no lies. You lied about the funding of anti-AGW versus pro-AGW science and activism, and you used that lie as an ad hominem argument.

    What matters is data and methods, not stupid ad hominems based on falsehood.

  • Yeahhh.. The oil industry is not an "alternative energy vendor."

    Exxon Mobile even admitted they've funded AGW deniers. They came out a few years ago and claimed they would cut the funding so that they could "be a part of the solution."

  • Exxon's backing for AGW denial was always tiny compared to other corporate and govt backing for AGW alarmism. They stopped a couple of years ago under pressure from the Rockefellers. Last year, they invested $600m+ in alternative energy. Meanwhile, in the five years up to 2009, Shell invested $1.7 billion on alternative energy, particularly wind and solar power. Big oil also has the potential to make big profits from cap-and-trade. So it is quite natural for them to support AGW alarmism.

  • 73elephants

    'AGW actually gets much more money from vested interests than anti-AGW does'

    Prove it!

  • Phil Jones at CRU received over $22m research grants, including from WWF, oil and energy companies (which back cap-and-trade), and the UK govt (which has been pushing AGW for many years, and even has renamed the Department of Energy to "Department of Energy and Climate Change", as well as funding AGW propaganda and callling skeptics "flat earthers" - Gordon Brown's words). By contrast, John Christy receives no Big Oil money *at all*, not a cent, on principle, to avoid accusations of bias.

  • 73elephants

    John Christy has been associated with the following Exxon funded think tanks and they pay!

    Competitive Enterprise Institute

    Cato Institute

    Independent Institute

    George C. Marshall Institute

    Heartland Institute

  • You're kidding right? AGW gets all the MSM and monetary support, those whose question it are likened to holocaust deniers and ridiculed.

    Get your head out of your ass.

  • aluckyshot

    It appears it is you that has your head up your ass.

    Scientists have to get funding which has to be justified. Whereas deniers like Ball etc. are not doing any research, they're writing op-eds.

    Make specific, detailed claims.

    Vague claims like you've made are always bogus. Otherwise STFU!

  • No need for specific claims if you are too ignorant to see it all around you in the news and media.

  • aluckyshot

    So you made it up!

    I thought so! Liar!

  • aluckyshot

    Make specific detailed claims. Who; what; where; when & etc.

    Vague claims like what you've just made are always bogus.

    Otherwise STFU!

  • No I will not STFU.

    "vol. 37, no.3 Physics and society july 2008"

    Google and read that you dumb piece of shit, you want specifics, that journal shows the general cooling trend over the past 8 years. There is another graph in there showing Co2 and temperature are not correlated.

    As for not being able to see the bias in the news, once again no need for specifics, I don`t have to disprove ignorance.

  • aluckyshot

    So you made it up!

  • aluckyshot

    Lord bunkum! You obviously can't read!

    Note beneath the title

    'The following article has not undergone any scientific peer review, since that is not normal procedure for American Physical Society newsletters. The American Physical Society reaffirms the following position on climate change, adopted by its governing body, the APS Council, on November 18, 2007: "Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate."'

  • aluckyshot

    Is that the best you can do. A non-peer-reviewed letter with a disclaimer that basically makes it perfectly clear it's a pile of steaming bovine excrement!

    You are desperate!

  • aluckyshot

    OWNED!

  • aluckyshot

    'I don`t have to disprove ignorance.'

    But you did! Yours!

  • You didn`t prove shit, the disclaimer merely means that they officially take the other side. Didn`t you know reputable journals print both sides of the debate.

  • aluckyshot

    You proved shit all right. That your argument is full of it! This article is full of it. Baron Munchausen is one dangerous idiot.

    The Baron's maths are screwy, that's how he 'claims' that the sensitivity is wrong. But sadly for him paleoclimate confirms many peer-reviewed studies that the sensitivity is rather higher. Which is bad for us.

    If Lord Bogus is so smart, he would have published a p-r article in the Journal rather than a letter which wasn't.

    That fact peaks volumes!

  • aluckyshot

    Have you heard this saying?

    When you're in a hole, STOP digging!

    The hole you've dug is getting deeper all the time!

  • aluckyshot

    Why you are wrong:

    /watch?v=XyOHJa5Vj5Y

  • Also some of your graphs are already debunked and misleading.

    Tool.

  • Uh-huh... too bad this is overly-simplified and you draw conclusions from your simplified understanding and baseless assumptions.

    Good for a 3rd grade report. Unfortunately you left the important things out. Try again.

  • A large part of the video where you explain a lack of correlation between CO2 and temperature is wrong. Plant life does not reduce CO2 simply because once the plant dies it decomposes back to CO2 and even more harmful methane.

  • @oomblikkies Plants don't decompose as easily as you may think. Much of the dead plant life discussed here is converted to oil. That's how plants take carbon out of the atmosphere. When they die, the carbon they absorbed in their lifetime is buried with them.

  • ThinkAboutit ..Plants do indeed decompose easily and rapidly in conditions where there is oxygen around. The only way to persevere the carbon in them is to bury them to exclude oxygen - so called anaerobic conditions. With enough pressure (more layers on top) and it will over time turn into peat and eventually into coal, but never oil - that comes only from living organisms (fish etc). But I agree with the fundamental message of your post, namely that CO2 has nothing to do with global warming.

  • You can't just look at it in terms of one plant. Plant life doesn't grow and die together, an I apologise if that's stating the obvious. Plant life flourishing reduces CO2 levels because the carbon is locked up in the living plant tissue.

  • Fake! Global Warming hoax unfolding upcomming weeks!

  • Iarsiemannen - I also wish this hoax will just go away, but unfortunately it has turned into a religion and all religions just ignore science.

  • It will just take some time. sad that so much resources are wasted untill its uncovered.

  • I'm interested in the accuracy of the graphs for the past 500 my. I assume it is some computer model using proxy data--since no hard data of CO2 levels exists prior to the Pliestocene, or for temperature prior to 1850. What model, which proxies, and how far apart are the data points? Does accuracy vary 400 mya vs 10 mya? To explain the relative timing & turning points between the two measurements--presumes a high degree of confidence in the data.

  • FUCKING AWESOME VIDEO!!

    Even *I* had to brush up on the basics!

    Sorry for the army talk. I am in a war right now against the anthopogenic global warming (AGW) deniers and conspiracy theorists about how gov't wants to take away all your freedoms to protect the environment - even though some of those freedoms - unlimited polluting and refusal to change one's lifestyle - SHOULD be taken away and will be taken away even WORSE in the future if nothing is done NOW about AGW.

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  • More CO2 means:

    * More Plant Growth

    * Plants need less water

    * More food per acre

    * More robust habitats and ecosystems

    plantsneedco2 (dot) org

  • Clubdj14

    Your lying drivel is boring.

    Do you have a brain? It doesn't seem like it!

    It is clear that your bullet points are in conflict.

    Since a growing plant is increasing in size, it needs more water, if only for the increased quantity of cytoplasm.

    Therefore a growing plant cannot need less water.

  • Clubdj14

    Whatever you're being paid to repeat your drivel, it's too much!

  • ... -.-"

    plant growth has it's limit, and plants would need MORE water if they're growing faster, it's basic photosynthesis.

  • "CO2 molecules are observed to absorb short wave radiation and give off long wave radiation"

    By what degree? Plant life would have problems? We sinthethize some organic molecules thanks to UV rays, right?

  • We synthesize Vitamin D indirectly due to the absorption of UV B rays (just a subset of UV rays, kind of like ROYGBIV in visible light).

    And it's simply put, the absorption spectrum in photosynthesis depends solely on photosystem absorption spectrums, which don't particularily include UV at all.

    Sorry what is the question?

  • I mean the frequency (or wave length) of the radiation absorbed by CO2 molecules.

    When you say short wave you mean ionizing radiation?

    It's a stupid question, I'm just curious :)

  • I mean waves of light in the... I think it's 230-350 nm band? I can't remember, have to look it up.

  • Wake up to the NWO weather modification programme. Google chemtrails.

  • Clubdj14

    You can post as much drivel as you like regarding the climate, that will neither make the existing science go away, nor will it make your lies become true.

  • Sure the existing science / propaganda/ brainwashing is promoted and funded by the NWO bankers, to tax the people.

    There's no my "lie".

  • "Proved: There is No Climate Crisis"

    tiny (dot) cc/pW3ko

  • Greenhouse Warming? What Greenhouse Warming?

    tiny (dot) cc/YFZde

  • Man made climate change is propaganda.

    watch?v=JrRusZOx3l4

  • Clubdj14

    'Man made climate change is propaganda'

    Is everything you post a lie?

    google:

    IPCC AR4 report

  • "The only place where CO2 is causing temperature increase is in the IPCC computer models"

    canadafreepress (dot) com/index (dot) php/article/7116

    cobourgskeptic (dot) com/archives/432

  • Clubdj14

    "The only place where CO2 is causing temperature increase is in the IPCC computer models"

    Why do you refer to a newspaper when talking about climate modelling? Is that the best 'science' you can find?

    I would like to learn more about these 'IPCC computer models'.

  • Clubdj14

    "The only place where CO2 is causing temperature increase is in the IPCC computer models"

    Did you not realise that there is NO SUCH THING as an IPCC computer model?

    So any claims about WHAT IPCC computer models say are lies and fabrications!

  • tiny (dot) cc/Z4lFs

  • 35 Inconvenient Truths "The errors in Al Gores movie" scienceandpublicpolicy (dot) org/monckton/goreerrors (dot) html - - - A 4-part lecture by Australian scientist, Professor Bob Carter (scienceandpublicpolicy (dot) org/images/stories/media/rmc_y­outube (dot) pdf) "Climate change - Is CO2 the Cause?" watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI watch?v=vN06JSi-SW8 watch?v=iCXDISLXTaY watch?v=bpQQGFZHSno
  • Clubdj14

    Professor Bob Carter is a well known source of climate verbiage. It's strange that Carter hasn't submitted his 'science' that undermines climate science to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

    Instead he writes op-eds in the papers and appears on chat shows.

    Perhaps Carter's theories aren't quite as scientifically sound as would have everyone believe. They are deceptive pseudo-scientific drivel.

  • Al Gore's movie is not an authority, nor even a scientific reference for climate change.

    However, the reality of the situation is that CO2 molecules are observed to absorb short wave radiation and give off long wave radiation.

    The problem is not solely CO2, however, the reason CO2 is talked about so much, is because it is/can be the trigger for setting off multitudes of climate feedback loops, which will result in catastrophic climate change.

  • this is a very good video.

  • "World's Largest Science Group Rejecting Man-made Climate Fears"

    newswithviews (dot) com/Morano/marc104.htm

  • Clubdj14

    Nice to see a troll using vested-interests as sources.

    Have you read any science? Doesn't seem like it!

  • Here's a video for you to start with:

    "Al Gore is a dickhead"

    watch?v=JrRusZOx3l4

  • Clubdj14

    "Al Gore is a dickhead"

    That's your mature, well considered argument against overwhelming science.?

    I'm most impressed!

    /irony

  • A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming"

    thenewamerican (dot) com/index (dot) php/

    tech-mainmenu-30/environment/9­42

    "The truth about global warming - it's the Sun that's to blame"

    telegraph (dot) co (dot) uk/science/science-news/332567­9/

    The-truth-about-global-warming

    ---its-the-Sun-thats-to-blame (dot) html

  • Clubdj14

    Did you read the Telegraph article? Doesn't seem like it.

    'Dr Gareth Jones, a climate researcher at the Met Office, said that Dr Solanki's findings were inconclusive because the study had not incorporated other potential climate change factors'

    The Telegraph is not known for its objective reporting of climate science. This is revealed by the fact the article ends with a quote from David Bellamy, who is a Botanist and who is not a credible source regarding the climate.

  • Clubdj14

    Solanki is old news, most studies indicate the exact opposite of what this study says. i.e. that the Sun has had a declining output since ~1975 and in 2009 hit a new low in output.

    The trouble with the solar hypothesis is that with falling solar output, the temperature has been rising, which indicates the solar effect was minor. Now solar output is rising, it will be added to the primary cause rising GHGs

    For you to rely on a single study indicates your POV demands cherry-picking!

  • Clubdj14

    The important question, is why you accept as valid only science that supports your predetermined conclusions, and reject the majority?

    The fact is that you have to root through a mountain of science that contradicts your view for a crumb of science that you like.

    This shows a peculiar approach to climate science. I'm pretty certain that you don't apply it to other aspects of your life.

    The answer, is why?

    Because you've made-up your mind and inconvenient facts only confuse.

  • There are very few papers that are impartial in the reporting of climate science. The majority are dogmatic lackeys of the AGW mafia, a minority are equally dogmatic in their opposition. A few are open-minded and publish a range of views.

  • The Met Office is not a credible source regarding the climate.

  • 73elephants

    You don't know what you're talking about.

  • Chemical and Engineering News letters page:

    tinyurl (dot) com /lye72x

    Take a look. Why are so many chemists writing angry letters to their professional journal saying that AGW alarmism is pseudoscience? Are all these people ignorant of science?

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  • Clubdj14

    'How about using your mind, and looking at this:'

    watch?v=XyOHJa5Vj5Y

  • Total NONSENSE. Answer this question. What percentage of green house gasses in the atmosphere are caused by humans?

  • Great. All the facts in a nutshell. Five stars, faved, subscribed.

  • This is very good. I was worried that the 500 mill year graph was going to be the main argument and that you were acting as an apologist for the lack of correlation but you quite rightly point out that other, greater, factors than CO2 can cause temperature change and that once the earth "stabalised" that it DID become a major factor. However, how have we been able to measure CO2 millions of years ago as ice core rings only go back 10 of thousands of years?

  • Great video!

  • Up to as of 2003[update], the longest core drilled was at Vostok station. It reached back 420,000 years and revealed 4 past glacial cycles. Drilling stopped just above Lake Vostok. The Vostok core was not drilled at a summit, hence ice from deeper down has flowed from upslope; this slightly complicates dating and interpretation. Vostok core data are available.

    wiki - vostok

  • where exactly did you get a graph going back 500 million years?

  • Ice cores are not the only source of proxy data.

  • Your evidence proves nothing!

    Very informative video, I had been wondering about the previous correlation between temperature and CO2 now I think I will actually read into it.

  • vostock is really vostok - misleading?

  • This video, or the video it comments on (where the graph came from)

  • "The common enemy of humanity is man.

    In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.

    All thesedangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.

    The real enemy then, is humanity itself."

    First Global Revolution 1991 - Club of Rome,

    premier environmental think-tank,

    consultants to the United Nations

  • I have to say that you are very underrated and you deserve more recognition.

  • The fact is temperature change natural and the norm as it keeps our environment healthy and is the driving force behind evolution. Without it you would not be here.

  • I am wondering what convinces you a 100 ppm or or even 1000ppm as any effect on temp? The typical answer 99% of the time is well all scientists say it is true but for one this not true like RM Carter who is one of many that disagrees and has published an excellent paper in an easy to read format going through all the science and issues. Search for R M Carter paper entitled Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate.

  • PROBLEM There is no direct proof an increase of 100 ppm in CO2 has any effect on temp. Fact is an increase of 100 ppm CO2 has a no effect on temperature in the lab, none! You need to increase CO2 to about 200,000 ppm to see a 3 degree C change. Global warming nuts then say, well the lab is not fair because CO2 is 50,000 feet of atmosphere. So there are some theories based on an idea of layers in 50,000 feet that tries to prove

  • In vitro and in vivo experiments can result in widely different results. Step into a lab and try it

  • Swell, please tell us the diffences when it comes to measuring CO2 effect on temp in the lab, I cant find anything so maybe you can enlighten us how this directly effects a 100 ppm increase of CO2 in the lab, Ill take a link.

  • You missed the point. A controlled in vitro experiment that takes away the variables of an in vivo study can yield different results. But please provide the link to a peer reviewed paper that talks about increasing CO2 temps in the lab and the effects. I have access to most journals, so a citation will be fine.

  • a 100ppm increase in CO2 increase temperature a few tenths of one degree F. This is an insignificant increase much less proof of man made global warming so the global warming nuts say well CO2 has an amplifying effect and then they rely on flawed global warming models which are grossly positive lookback biased so of course they are going to show an amplifying effect from a small amount of CO2 as they are built to do this but note flawed models are not proof much less science.

  • Since the start of industrial times we have observed an increase in temp of about 0.7C which is roughly 1.3F. CO2 has increased by 31% and CH4 by 151%. It is projected that temps could increase to 3-4F by 2100. Let me ask you this, what is the difference between 1 degree F?

  • What is projecting these temp changes, I know the answer it is incomplete positive loopback heavy models the IPCC refers too. In the lab an increase from 250 ppm CO2 to 350 ppm has NO effect. Now the arguement is that is not fair because C02 is in 50,000 feet of atmoshephere, so there is a theory layers cause a reflection giving us a couple tenths of 1 degee F increase,

  • ok maybe true but what the IPCC models do is say there is an Amplyfiying effect from this small change, for example they claim a couple of tenths F increase in temp melts more ice which creates more darker surfice on the earth, causing even more worming and so on giving you an amplyfing effect. The problem is the models ignore neg loopbacks, for example as the earth warms more storms are created removing, storms remove energy from the athmosphere in the form of waves and wind.

  • Well if you read the excecuative summery of the models thay admit they ignore many neg loopbacks that drive temp down because they simply cannot predict storms, note the poor track recorded of trying to predict hurricanes the last 40 years. There are many more of these neg loopbacks ignored, little understood or not even descovered. These mdels are still in grade school. Not to mention outside force we cant predict like gamma rays and sunspots,

  • Will you be covering the effects of water vapour as a greenhouse factor?

  • Of course, it's the major contributor, but it's self-regulating. When it becomes too dense, it forms precipitation, and when it's not dense enough, it draws liquid water to evaporate. Water vapour is something we can't particularily change, CO2 we can.

  • Thats got me thinking. Is there any data to show the levels of relative global humidity plotted against the co2 and temp for the same period as the vostok icecore graph covers?

  • I don't know of any, and I think it would be pretty difficult to discern anyways. We can know CO2 and temp through ice cores, water... well... when water freezes, it is the ice. So to try and get atmospheric H2O from an ice core would be impossible (probably).

    Geologically... well... it can just dry out or get rained on...

    I don't think a detailed graph of water vapour concentration exists farther back than our recent recordings.

  • I hear goverments telling me that i am responsable with my "carbon footprint", meanwhile my government wastes billions on wars to secure oil fields so they can perpetuate the problem further. If they really believed that we are causing the changes they would be more proactive about alternative fuels and technology. (they wouldn't for example bail out the car industry). Thankyou for these vids btw, the data is authentic and you provide a concise narrative, 5stars.