During the electionn, the President Elect made the following statement: "Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute, and the facts are clear." On Monday, the CATO Institute ran a full page in in the New York Times that contained the following statement, and signed by many top climate change scientists: (To see the full page add, click here.)With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.
"We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now. After controlling for population growth and property values, there has been no increase in damages from severe weather-related events. The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior. Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect."
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Yo Len. Climate change is obviously happening. How much, if at all, are humans contributing to it is the million dollar question.
Ice ages are long and the melt down periods are also long. And, the ice caps melting more rapidly as they get smaller only makes since.
But, with the amount of shit we pump in the air, to me it's not so far fetched that we are speeding up the natural ice cap melting process.
It seems a very small group of scientists think that we aren't contributing at all, another small group think humans are doing all of it, and the majority believe that we are contributing somewhat to an already happening natural process. I think its the value of the word, "somewhat", that is up for debate.
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