Global warming: A natural cycle or human result?
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But why it is occurring and what that means for the future is scientifically and politically contentious. (emphasis mine)
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But there are those who do not share his view, and among the skeptics is Richard Lindzen, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"We've suddenly taken to reading tea leaves," he said. "When we saw cooling from 1940 to 1970, we were proclaiming global cooling. Since then, there's been a few tenths of global warming, so we're proclaiming global warming."
He believes the current warming trend is the result of natural variability, where a planet goes through phases of warming and cooling and the human contribution to it is minimal.
"The Earth is always getting colder and warmer," he said. "It's always changing. In fact, this is true of any fluid-covered planet."
Asked about glacial melt, which many observers point to as evidence of global warming, Lindzen said the way glaciers change and move are phenomena largely unexplained.
"We don't know why, but it's perfectly clear that glaciers change even though the temperature is cooling at the place that they've occurred," he said. "What we're doing is cherry picking any event that occurs and then saying that's occurring due to global warming."
http://us.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/07/11/globalwarming.overview/index.htmlISN'T IT GREAT THE "MOST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS" IS PRESENTING BOTH SIDES OF THE "SCIENTIFICALLY CONTENTIOUS" GLOBAL WARMING!!!
BE SURE TO LET THEM KNOW HOW MUCH YOU APPRECIATE LOOKING OUT FOR US AND MAKING SURE WE UNDERSTAND THAT ONLY "MANY" AND "MOST" SCIENTISTS ACCEPT THAT HUMANS ARE CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING.....BUT THAT THERE ARE SOME "SCIENTISTS" WHO DO NOT AGREE.
I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM EXAMINE THE CREDENTIALS AND PAST RESEARCH AND SPECIFIC CLAIMS OF THE "SCIENTISTS" THAT DON'T AGREE.
CAN YOU?
ASK THEM TO DO SO HERE:
http://us.cnn.com/feedback/ (I'm sure we can "trust" them to report the truth, huh?)
OR JUST ASK THEM TO STOP BEING SO LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE AND TREAT THE ISSUE FOR WHAT IT IS: A REALITY THAT IS ONLY QUESTIONED BY DISHONEST SNAKE-OIL SALESMEN WHO HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND MANY OF WHOM GET OIL/COAL INDUSTRY MONEY.
Sorry for yelling. This is really starting to burn me.