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What We Know About Global Warming…
Written by-Zach- Nothing.
That’s the problem I have with global warming. It’s not that I think that believing in global warming is dumb. It’s not that I think that not believing in global warming is dumb. I think that being absolutely certain of either is dumb. The fact of the matter is that we have no facts on the matter. There is not enough data to prove either of them. We’ve been taking data on global warming for 50 years! What’s 50 years in the history of the earth? The definition of climate is the average and variations of weather in a region over long periods of time. Keywords: “long period of time”.
I feel like yelling at people when I hear them say things like “2006 was the hottest year on record! So that proves global warming.” (1st statistic given on www.environmentaldefense.org) or “This is the most snow we’ve had since 1954! So that disproves global warming.” That is called anecdotal evidence. Not real evidence. It doesn’t PROVE or DISPROVE anything. If I said that I pulled up to a red light and had to wait 5 seconds for it to turn green yesterday. Today, I pulled up to the same light and had to wait 10 seconds for the light to turn green. Would I assume that they have doubled the length of the red-light since I drove there just the day before? No. Why? Because that would be stupid. There’s just not enough evidence there to make a decision. It’s the same thing for global warming. Every year the weather changes, one year in the history of the earth is nothing. 100 years in the history of the earth is…nothing. Since the beginning, the earth’s climate has been changing. Sometimes it gets warmer; sometimes it gets colder. No big deal, the earth is a resilient place.
If global warming is actually happening, I bet it’s not from Hummers and smoke stacks; it’s probably from some weird source, like the earth turning itself inside-out or something. It’s probably something we would have never guessed.
You can’t deny real facts.
When Al Gore created the internet, he had no idea it would be the cause of global warming. I’m serious. Look at the graph. Global warming has gotten worse as the internet has grown. Coincidence? I think not.
Al Gore caused global warming by creating the internet, and now he’s trying cover it up with his “Inconvenient Truth”. I’m on to his schemes.
Ok, ok. In all seriousness though, no one knows the truth about global warming. Is it naturally warming ? Or warming because of us? Or not warming at all? We don’t have enough data to prove anything so let’s not pretend like we know whats going on, because that’s just irresponsible, arrogant… and annoying.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1848/global.html
haha. pretty funny stuff. i love the internet/global warming timeline.
Great post…once again!
lol nice pictures made on paint. you could’ve at least used a straight line for the time with data on global warming though, but other than that i enjoy your paint pictures.
It’s funny cause it’s true (nice graphs)
Even though scientists have only collected data from the last 50 years or so, they can still gather data that’s much older. People have drilled in the Antarctic several km deep and have found the carbon dioxide levels to be much greater now than ever before. Scientists can trace this back millions and millions of years and still the carbon levels are abnormally higher than ever before.
It’s a good point Adam, the problem is that there’s no guarantee that CO2 levels are actually linked with global warming. Remember, the old saying, “Correlation does not mean Causation”.
This is funny! But, seriously, what if we *are* causing global warming? Won’t we all be dead or enslaved by mutant cockroaches by the time there is enough data? Wouldn’t it be better to just play it safe and kill all the cockroaches now? Also, won’t Al Gore have invented something with even greater ozone-destroying and pornography-spreading potential than the internet by then? While I agree that correlation does not mean causation, I don’t think there is really much room for doubt here: easy online access to pornography is causing the earth’s temperature to rise. Don’t think we don’t know what you’re doing.
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