Global Warming Debate - Q&A 1, part 8 of 10

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[amb85]

Gavin Schmidt is such a tool.

[dragknuckle]

If that were true, the AGW proponents could easily correct these misleading statements. I have yet to see anyone do so. Your decision to refer to skeptics as "Deniers" with a capital "D" and your accusation that they are deliberately "playing on the lay audiences lack of knowlage (sic)" assumes an ulterior motive on the part of skeptics. Has it entered your mind that reasonable people can disagree? Bohr disagreed with Einstein about quantum physics, and it turned out he was right.

[Igneous01]

Gavin Schmidt - "The respected astrophysicist who examined cosmic rays is wrong." What an argument.

[slytown]

There is no done in science Gavin Schmidt. I can't listen to you talk.

[MewCat100]

It was much warmer around 1100 BC than it is now, a time when human civilizations flourished! 

[MewCat100]

Battery park is built on fill dirt. That part of Manhattan island actually wasn't even present years ago, prior to the World Trade Center Construction. His argument is inept because the "climate we've adapted to" is the climate that began roughly 200,000 years ago which has been significantly COLDER and WARMER than it is now. In other words, we and many other species have managed to survive much larger variations in temperature IN BOTH DIRECTIONS! What an idiot.

[timdnwd]

@demigod197 The sun does not keep us warm..it is the greenhouse gases which RETAIN the suns heat to keep us warm. Take away the greenhouse gases and the earths temperature drops dramatically, increase the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the temperature rises.other gases in the atmosphere DO NOT retain heat from the sun, why? That's the way chemistry works, every atom/molecule has different properties.

[timdnwd]

Nearly every species on this earth depends on specific environmental conditions to breed.Change the environmental conditions like temperature and rainfall we will see many species and arguably a great percentage of them will die out...

[TheTempestSpark]

@DamLazyFuk Sorry, I apologize for disturbing your grazing. I have respectively removed my offensive comment. please continue!

[DamLazyFuk]

@TheTempestSpark You are a dim one.

[slytown]

Did Gavin Schmidt just say consensus is whats in the textbooks after what happens after the science has been done? Textbook s, if he's referring to secondary/higher edu. texts, are so political, they rarely resemble the academia they mimic. I had the same issue with historical textbooks. Textbooks are designed to make "better citizens" not critical thinkers and professors.