Climate Change is Caused by Humans, Period.
Not the natural ebb and flow of weather throughout the millenniumums, not cosmic rays, and certainly not cow farts. The consensus is clear, it's us.
There is a war of disinformation be waged on the general public over the consensus cause of climate change.
Let’s hope that John Baird will not become our countries Philip Cooney. Ex-Petroleum Institute lobbyist, who was appointed as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He spent his tenure propagating the myth that the cause of climate change is unknown, waving the oil and gas flag in White House, even editing out damaging scientific publishings of government scientists and upon leaving his appointment, the very next day he was hired by ExxonMobil. Nice.
His legacy remains to this day, recent Bush government statements on the climate change have included half hearted acknowledgements such as “the increase in greenhouse gases have been due to certain extent to human activity”, only to be followed up by contradicting statements such as "we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects.”
The data is clear; the public’s understanding is not. It a direct result of the oil and gas lobby’s efforts to misinform, with a little help from the US executive branch.
“It is hard to get somebody to understand something when their paycheck depends on their not understanding it.” M. Twain
From Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, I was taken aback by these startling facts from an independent study:
Of the 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003, articles geered towards the academic scientific community, the number of articles that state that climate change is caused by anything but humans was 0%. During that same period, of the over 500 articles dealing with the same subject yet published in national and local newspapers, including the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and non-peer reviewed magazines, the percentage of those articles to cast doubt as to the actual cause of climate change (cosmic rays anyone?), was over 50%.
And newly appointed Federal Environment Minister John Baird has done nothing to prove that he may improve things for us north of the border. On his trip out west to survey the Stanley Park wind storm damage he made his 1st public statements as Environment Minister, he used the media event to make two pathetic points, One – he stated that the 1st thing on his agenda would be to push through the Tories laughable (we’ll get to it in 50 years), Clean Air Act. And secondly, to accuse Stephane Dion of doing nothing during his time as Environment Minister. Dion, is widely accepted as being the best Environment Minister in the countries history, just ask Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
It is shameful. The oil and gas lobby, simply do not want us to know the truth.
I’ll finish this post, with a statement from the scientific community, on the prevailing consensus regarding the cause of climate change.
“Consensus as strong as the one that has developed around this topic is rare in science,” - Science Magazine Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy
posted by Brad @ Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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''And secondly, to accuse Stephane Dion of doing nothing during his time as Environment Minister. Dion, is widely accepted as being the best Environment Minister in the countries history, just ask Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.''
So you are saying that Canada's BEST Enviro Minister, Dion, is responsible for our GHG emissions INCREASE..??
Oh right, he 'WAS ABOUT TO' fix the problem while in government,
and he is OUT of government and 'NOW HAS ALL THE ANSWERS' !!!!
He doubted Canada could meet Kyoto targets, when he was IN government.
Now he is OUT of government and said we can meet our targets if you elect HIM.
Just how stupid do you think Canadians are.?
Lizzy May will have to answer the same questions.
So how is it May gave Greenist PM award to Mulrooney?
Lucien Bouchard is given that credit by Mulroney.
"Not the natural ebb and flow of weather throughout the millenniumums, not cosmic rays, and certainly not cow farts. The consensus is clear, it's us"
Soooooo, I guess we caused the last few ice ages too, right? [yes that's climate change too]
If you believe that climate change is purely our doing, then I truly feel sorry for you.
Do some reading, you'll find there's more to it than what Al Gore has to say.
I find it amazing that our emissions increased over 35% under Liberal rule and because Liberal politicians told us they were actively doing something about it, many Canadians including most news media let them off the hook. Now that we have a Conservaitve government in place, the world is going to end tomorrow because the Conservatives aren't fixing the emission problem today. No media bias, eh?
Global Warming?
It has frequently been stated that the science community is overwhelmingly agreed that global warming is occurring, that it is caused by excess carbon dioxide and that human activities are responsible. I have searched and searched, but until recently I have found no data to back up that claim. Now I have those data.
In December 2004 Dr. Naomi Oreskes, a history professor at the University of California at San Diego published a claimed research of 928 scientific papers bearing upon the global warming issue. Astonishingly, she found that every single one of those papers found that global warming is real and human-caused. Wouldn’t any observer have some suspicion that there’s something wrong here? Out of nearly a thousand papers would not even one seem to cast some doubt on that outcome?
Having personally read hundreds of papers in refereed journals over the past several years, I certainly have my doubts. So, in fact, did Dr. Benny Peiser of the science faculty at Liverpool John Moores University. Upon perusing the same 928 papers, he found that only one-third backed the so-called consensus view and “only one percent did so explicitly.”
Then Professor Dennis Bray of the GKSS National Research Centre in Germany conducted his own survey of hundreds of his colleagues in climate science, asking, on a scale of 1 to 7, “ To what extent do you agree or disagree that climate change is mostly the result of anthropogenic causes?” He received 530 responses. The average was 3.62, near the middle with a slight tilt toward “disagree”, and more climatologists “strongly disagreed” than “strongly agreed”.
No consensus exists and, from my readings in the science, the actual evidence for anthropogenic global warming borders on non-existent.
Good Read on Algore’s movie . . . http://www.canadafreepress.com/200
6/harris061206.htm
In November 2000 at the Hague, Jacques Chirac, then French President said: "Kyoto represents the first component of an authentic global governance". . . . Scarrey thought don't you think?????
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ICE AGES:
The Global Warming we are experiencing is far from an ice age, the world has not seen these recorded highs. Ice ages, are a lot more complicated that the incredible rise in greenhouse gases. I think we can all agree that continental shifts and Milankovitch cycles aren’t causing the current climate crisis.
Competing Reports on the Consensus:
At a certain point, it becomes a question of lies, damn lies and then statistics. Eventually, an authoritative body must be recognized, and a consensus reached:
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence of the global climate."
http://www.ipcc.ch
Dion's Record as Environment Minister
One man, does not a national environmental record make. When the former director of the Seira Club of Canada, and a member of a competing federal party no less, says he was a good environmental minister, he was a good environmental minister.
ICE AGES....dude read your title..."Climate Change is Caused by Humans, Period.", it doesn't say global warming....
"the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence of the global climate"...discernable doesn't mean only human influence, we are apart of the equation, not the all of the equation.
Anyone that would suggest that human's solely to blame is a fool.
Our current climate crisis is global warming, not an ice age. Perhaps that wasn't obvious enough for some.
Are you suggesting that the climate crisis is the result of natural occurrences? -Instead of the widely held scientific consensus that it is principally because of the increase in carbon dioxide emissions caused by humans.
I'm not going to get into a semantic argument over the nuances of certain adverbs. That, my misguided friend, would be foolish.
The problem is us, and we need to except that, and fix it.
You wouldn't happen to work for ExxonMobil would you?
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