Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Global Warming Is Real

My partner Doug sent me this link for an article on global warming. The lead is long, but there's some valid stuff farther down.

The climate is warming. It is almost certain this is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity. Nobody has come up with an alternative explanation that stands up. If the present warming trend continues, nasty things will probably start happening to humans within the next century, possibly the next decade. Something must be done. If nothing is done, then the benign climatic conditions that have sustained human civilisation for 10,000 years are in danger of collapse to be replaced by… well, write your own disaster movie.
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The best data I have found so far, and I am a newbie to this is here:

Google "Climate Debate Daily" which posts stuff both for and against the IPCC received wisdom.

then look at the "Key Resources" panel on the left. For example, the amount of arctic sea ice - pretty steady since 2002, in fact getting better since 2007.

I don't know what to think. Probably there is a problem but it is not nearly as likely to go critical as we are being told.

There's more stuff on my own LJ.
Here is the URL: http://climatedebatedaily.com/

I tend to think that any forum that couches this as a "debate" wants to give the deniers (and the coal lobby) more credibility than they deserve, but apart from my misgivings about treating this kind of issue as a horse-race, this site looks reasonably reliable.