Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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NASA Explains Climate Change

This is essentially a hub for climate change science.  It covers indicators, evidence, causes and effects, uncertainties, possible solutions, and all kinds of other useful information.  There's also a discussion of NASA's role in studying climate change, from historic explorations to current issues to extrapolations of the future.  So if you're interested in the hard facts of this issue, here it is, the rocket science of climate change.

Link courtesy of my partner Doug, who also included this quote from a referring post:
Mark included this postscript:
Now I just know I'm going to get an e-mail from my friend Roger saying, "Hey, there's plenty of evidence that Global Warming is a hoax" and he'll link me to the website of a junior high school science teacher in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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cortezopossum

cortezopossum

November 1 2010, 19:43:52 UTC 10 years ago

I know a friend who's deeply into the sciences and has a strong enough mathematical background to deal with things like general relativity and string theory -- however he's adamantly against the idea of man-made climate change and will get rather emotional if the topic comes up. I tend to avoid the topic around him.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

November 2 2010, 04:50:57 UTC 10 years ago

It's hard to handle when people refuse to have a rational discussion on the topic. I'm open to exploring the unclear areas (of which there are many, since we don't know everything about how the Earth works) but I get frustrated by attempts to handwave known facts. I mean, even if humans aren't the cause, we're going to get shafted by the effects. If we are influencing the climate, at least that gives us a better chance of keeping it habitable.