[I thought this was very strange...till I saw the link at the bottom of the page and saw that it led to (drumroll please) the Discovery Institute!]
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
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There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
There is no "convincing" scientific evidence that Elvis is dead, either, if you're enough of a nut-job to explain away any evidence presented to the contrary.
1. Atmospheric CO2 is at an, at least, 170,000 year high. It could be 800,000 years.
Not sure how this is fundie.
Also, um, doesn't that big ball of hydrogen fusion we orbit around have a large effect on our climate, as well?
Actually, the evidence is pretty clear -- CO2, methane, etc ARE having a negative impact on the Earth, *especially* with the deforestation rates so high.
Wait... they capitalized "Earth"... isn't that rather... pagan?
Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
So, do you mean contamination is good for the earth now?
A minority opinion on the basis of evidence is NOT Fundie.
Funding for the project comes entirely from private non-tax deductible donations by interested individuals.
Who happen to have an interest in proving Global warming is false.
Personally I think if we had taken the necessary steps in the 70's when this came up, we may have saved ourselves. But now the amount of methane and CO2 being released out of the melting poles isn't going to stop until the poles are melted. Also a lot of the so called "green options" aren't really that green. They're ways of making profit off of people who want to feel good about themselves.
Nobody knows what the long term effects of greenhouse gasses will be since they must be superimposed on a climate roller-coaster that has been oscillating for ages.
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Looking at the picture, it seems that we are headed into another major episode of glaciation.
None of the "climate change" models incorporate the long-term Milankovitch cycles, which are major driving forces for climate.
In short, nobody KNOWS a damned thing about what direction climate is going. There is much speculation based on short-term evidence and very simple models that fail to incorporate known phenomena that affect climate.
Yes, Global Warming is PROBABLY real, at least in the short term. In the long term, it is still a crapshoot.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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