Mark Morano, Global Warming Contrarian

We sent our environtment correspondent and our videographer to the Heartland Institute's convention of climate change contrarians in order to find out what the adherents of this ideology are all about... In this clip they hear from Marc Morano, who is the communications director for U.S. Senator James Inhofe, who once declared that global warming is the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

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Science & Technology

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• environment
• science
• climate
• global
• warming

[Thisawareness]

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[livingproofof]

dear morono please recheck the mideval data.. that was only taken from europe you dipshit if you actually look into it you will find this.. if you want some real evidence of global cite russia rhode island delware have the warmest summers on record so far.. record floods in pakistan record low acrtic ice extent.. the warming is being caused by heat generated by burning stuff(fuels) and blacktops and rooptops duh!

[aerobique]

"science" ? mark morono? lol?` why not rush limbaugh?

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"I think we understand the mechanisms of CO2 and climate better than we do of what causes lung cancer...In fact, it is fair to say that global warming may be the most carefully and fully studied scientific topic in human history."

--- Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences

btw:

climate . nasa . gov / evidence /

[Woobaka]

@informedskeptic

You're probably making the convincing argument for me :)

In all seriousness though, I posted that a month ago. I don't even remember what idiocy I was referring to.

[informedskeptic]

@Woobaka

Perhaps you could make a convincing argument in support of your position?  Nah, didn't think so.

[informedskeptic]

@bluetwinky

Did a little research in the interim. There are two forms of feedback, negative and positive. Positive feedback indicates a relatively small input can cause big changes. Negative feedback is basically a self-correcting system. Based on millions of years of life on this planet it is obvious we have a negative feedback of CO2 going on. Wild swings of CO2 (Cambrian 7000ppm) yielded relatively small changes in temp and later returned to normal.

[bluetwinky]

What I was showing you was a geometric series, which gives a nice way of thinking about feedbacks.

If S is an increase in temp f would represent so process the caused a further increase in temp. You could make S negative and use the same math to describe a decrease in temp.

If you take the time to play with the math it is a help in thinking about a variety of subjects.

[informedskeptic]

@bluetwinky

Given your last statement regarding feedbacks of CO2, how can you in turn argue that we'll have a runaway greenhouse effect? Tell me, where is the science that states higher levels of CO2 can cool?

Honestly, no scientific body possesses the knowledge of the climate necessary to make long-term projections about the climate. Period. Let's stop pretending we can and stop the wasteful gov't funding of research. I'm guessing that will make you unemployed.

[informedskeptic]

Do you understand what he meant by cooling?

[informedskeptic]

@bluetwinky

One little problem with your theory. Why would feedbacks of CO2 decrease when CO2 are at higher levels? What does "S" represent? What causes "S"?

Additionally, if the decreasing feedbacks of CO2 have always occurred following a drop in temperature wouldn't one logically conclude that temperature drives CO2 levels?

Basically, your theories make no sense. When cornered, you hide behind scientific jargon.