Damn Global Warming....

Ringsixty said:

We need to go put a cap on all those active Volcano's around the World, Yep.

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1. Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That’s comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.
2. Over 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. 5,000 people die each day due to dirty drinking water.
3. 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.
4. Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.
5. People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
6. The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a “dead zone” in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.
7. Approximately 46% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.
8. Americans make up an estimated 5% of the world’s population. However, the U.S. produces an estimated 30% of the world’s waste and uses 25% of the world’s resources.
9. Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into U.S. water.
10. While children only make up 10% of the world’s population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors.
11. Recycling and composting prevented 85 million tons of material away from being disposed of in 2010, up from 18 million tons in 1980.

Padawanbater2 said:

If 97% of doctors told any of these climate change deniers they would die unless they took medicine, 100% of climate change deniers would take the medicine You don't understand how science works if you think 97% of the scientists studying the problem could get away with lying to billions of people for decades

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Antidisestablishmentarian said:

I'd put up a face palm, but it's not enough. Doran and zimmerman can't even do simple math. Their own own survey breaks out to 94%. And that was on ~80 scientists. (They surveyed way more than 80. Over 3000 took it. Can you say cherry picked?) Cook et all is the latest greatest 97% consensus survey out there(hint: they agree with you) And by their own data, 2/3 of published scientific opinion is inconclusive or GW is not occurring. You believe what you want. You've been informed and can no longer claim ignorance.

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burgertime2010 said:

climate change might come in less subtle forms than car exhaust.

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beenthere said:

Deflection.



Deflection.

Uncalled for pathetic deflection

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Padawanbater2 said:

"We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus. For both abstract ratings and authors' self-ratings, the percentage of endorsements among papers expressing a position on AGW marginally increased over time. Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research." http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article 32.6% support v. 0.7% oppose 66.4% inconclusive ...97% of climate scientists who have reached a reasonable conclusion, conclude that AGW is responsible. Again.. those numbers do not surprise me at all. That is how science works.

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Antidisestablishmentarian said:

To be fair, out of 12000 papers, 4 were deemed no.

There is debate about that though. Quite a few scientists whose papers were listed as inconclusive were actually no's.

Im with the vast majority of scientists and say more data please.

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Padawanbater2 said:

Of the scientists who have reached a conclusion, 97% of them say humans play a part

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Red1966 said:

Yet, those same scientists, when interviewed later, said either they never said a meaningful part or said they never agreed at all. Your "study" was a sham.

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see4 said:

1. Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That’s comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.
2. Over 1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. 5,000 people die each day due to dirty drinking water.
3. 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.
4. Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.
5. People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
6. The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a “dead zone” in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.
7. Approximately 46% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.
8. Americans make up an estimated 5% of the world’s population. However, the U.S. produces an estimated 30% of the world’s waste and uses 25% of the world’s resources.
9. Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into U.S. water.
10. While children only make up 10% of the world’s population, over 40% of the global burden of disease falls on them. More than 3 million children under age five die annually from environmental factors.
11. Recycling and composting prevented 85 million tons of material away from being disposed of in 2010, up from 18 million tons in 1980.

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Padawanbater2 said:

A scientist who gets paid to study the climate

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Padawanbater2 said:

Except for geologists, astronomers, paleontologists, biologists, chemists, anthropologists, etc.. People who get paid to study the climate are experts, if they weren't, they wouldn't be getting paid to do it. 97% of the experts who have conclusively reached a decision agree that AGW is the cause. At this point, denying it is tantamount to denying the theory of gravity For fucks sake..

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Red1966 said:

So Al Gore is a scientist? He's made hundreds of millions off AGW. Yet he still owns 8 mansions, 27 cars, and three airplanes and uses 200 times as much carbon as the average American. Yes, he clearly believes in what he's preaching.

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Red1966 said:

So Al Gore is a scientist? He's made hundreds of millions off AGW. Yet he still owns 8 mansions, 27 cars, and three airplanes and uses 200 times as much carbon as the average American. Yes, he clearly believes in what he's preaching.

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kelly4 said:

Could you please tell/show me where you found #7?

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