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04-15-2007, 08:55 AM
<CENTER>Welcome to Global Warming Skeptics</CENTER>
Earth’s environment has become a hot button issue; so much so, that it has stumbled into the political arena. Yet, when the layers are peeled away on this issue, critical thinkers ask if the sky is really falling or is the media hyping the matter. Something is going on with Mother Earth’s climate; there is no doubt about that. Precisely what is going on is anyone’s guess and due to the planet’s dynamics, the reason can’t be pinned down to one primary cause. After all, it's been changing for 4.5 billion years.
What is Global Warming: The Short Version
When we hear the topic of global warming brought up, usually the first thing that goes through many people’s minds is the modern human industrial population. Typically many of the people who discuss it know little to nothing of the history behind it; no shock there.
Global warming was first introduced in 1824 by a man named Joseph Fourier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect). Anyone familiar with US history will soon realize that we were not even close to our industrial might like we are today; yet, this concept of global warming was first observed early in the 19th Century. However, it wasn’t until 1896 (yes, that’s still the 19th Century) that a scientist, by the name of Svante Arrhenius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius), began looking into the human aspect of global warming and the contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere and increasing the planet’s temperature. He concluded that man was the cause.
In the 1930's, G.S. Callander gathered temperature readings from more than 200 weather stations located around the world. After he gathered these numbers and got back to his lab, he concluded that the increase in the earth’s temperature was due to the contribution of greenhouse gasses from the human industry. Later in the 1950’s, Gilbert Plass, while conducting research on infrared radiation absorption and atmospheric CO2, also concluded that humans were the cause of temperatures rising around the globe. During this time the “Keeling Curve” was introduced. This honorific was so called because Charles David Keeling documented atmospheric carbon dioxide levels being emitted by Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.At any rate, these studies were going on and on and it seemed that the consensus from the scientific community was that, indeed, we humans are the cause of rising global temperatures. However, it wasn’t until 1988 that the issue would actually go global (pun intended).
In 1988 The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which was formed by the United Nation’s Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization, conducted a World Climate Conference in 1990 to review the First Scientific Assessment Report. Well over 700 scientists gathered at this conference in order to create the 1992 UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). When this conference was concluded, the “Scientific Declaration” was issued:
“A clear scientific consensus has emerged on estimates of the range of global warming that can be expected during the 21st century.... Countries are urged to take immediate actions to control the risks of climate change.”
We here at Global Warming Skeptics do not buy into this "consensus" science.
A Challenge
If Al Gore and his sycophants are so sure that the earth will be destroyed in the time remaining of his prediction, then we challenge any of them to come here and answer some hard questions. Al Gore has ducked, weaved, and dodged everyone that wants to interview him on the subject, so we challenge any of his doomsdayers to come here and debate the issue. After all, he is a nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.globalwarmingskeptics.info/
What do you guys think of this?
Earth’s environment has become a hot button issue; so much so, that it has stumbled into the political arena. Yet, when the layers are peeled away on this issue, critical thinkers ask if the sky is really falling or is the media hyping the matter. Something is going on with Mother Earth’s climate; there is no doubt about that. Precisely what is going on is anyone’s guess and due to the planet’s dynamics, the reason can’t be pinned down to one primary cause. After all, it's been changing for 4.5 billion years.
What is Global Warming: The Short Version
When we hear the topic of global warming brought up, usually the first thing that goes through many people’s minds is the modern human industrial population. Typically many of the people who discuss it know little to nothing of the history behind it; no shock there.
Global warming was first introduced in 1824 by a man named Joseph Fourier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect). Anyone familiar with US history will soon realize that we were not even close to our industrial might like we are today; yet, this concept of global warming was first observed early in the 19th Century. However, it wasn’t until 1896 (yes, that’s still the 19th Century) that a scientist, by the name of Svante Arrhenius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius), began looking into the human aspect of global warming and the contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere and increasing the planet’s temperature. He concluded that man was the cause.
In the 1930's, G.S. Callander gathered temperature readings from more than 200 weather stations located around the world. After he gathered these numbers and got back to his lab, he concluded that the increase in the earth’s temperature was due to the contribution of greenhouse gasses from the human industry. Later in the 1950’s, Gilbert Plass, while conducting research on infrared radiation absorption and atmospheric CO2, also concluded that humans were the cause of temperatures rising around the globe. During this time the “Keeling Curve” was introduced. This honorific was so called because Charles David Keeling documented atmospheric carbon dioxide levels being emitted by Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.At any rate, these studies were going on and on and it seemed that the consensus from the scientific community was that, indeed, we humans are the cause of rising global temperatures. However, it wasn’t until 1988 that the issue would actually go global (pun intended).
In 1988 The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), which was formed by the United Nation’s Environmental Program and the World Meteorological Organization, conducted a World Climate Conference in 1990 to review the First Scientific Assessment Report. Well over 700 scientists gathered at this conference in order to create the 1992 UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). When this conference was concluded, the “Scientific Declaration” was issued:
“A clear scientific consensus has emerged on estimates of the range of global warming that can be expected during the 21st century.... Countries are urged to take immediate actions to control the risks of climate change.”
We here at Global Warming Skeptics do not buy into this "consensus" science.
A Challenge
If Al Gore and his sycophants are so sure that the earth will be destroyed in the time remaining of his prediction, then we challenge any of them to come here and answer some hard questions. Al Gore has ducked, weaved, and dodged everyone that wants to interview him on the subject, so we challenge any of his doomsdayers to come here and debate the issue. After all, he is a nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.globalwarmingskeptics.info/
What do you guys think of this?