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“Climate Denial” or “AGW Acceptance” are not political issues, try as some might to frame them as such. They are issues of Science and are utterly, therefore, matters of empirical fact. As such, the debate is long over, and AGW has been shown to lack sufficient evidence. Even the notion of “global temperature” has been shown, scientifically, to be ill-posed, meaningless (please, any of you with basic, undergraduate Math skills, check out http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitr...bTemp.JNET.pdf, and then please tell your less math-capable friends about what it means). There are no “party lines” here. This is NOT a political issue. Many are desperate to make it into one, but it’s simply not. Not at all.
DieDaily,
The article only shows that an average global temperature cannot be achieved. It does not dispute the fact that the “greenhouse effect” is trapping more heat in the atmosphere. Heat that would have been reflected back into space, had it not been for the added accumulation of greenhouse gases caused by human activities.
It is political when you have a huge percentage of knowledgeable scientists in agreement with this fact. And, mostly, Republicans denying it.
DieDaily, I am curious how you are able to state in one breath that these are “issues of Science and are utterly, therefore, matters of empirical fact” and then in the very next breath completely obliterate your own argument with the very-unscientific, un-empirical, fact-free assertion, “As such, the debate is long over, and AGW has been shown to lack sufficient evidence.”
Disagreement with a mathematical calculation does not overturn the basic, established physics of C02 interaction with solar radiation, or the basic, established chemistry of C02 interaction with seawater, or the multiple lines of empirical evidence directly observed throughout the physical world.
The scientific data is overwhelming across these multiple lines of evidence, across multiple disciplines. It goes far beyond your criticism of the ‘math’ of calculating global average temperature. Even if your criticism were true, the other overwhelming lines of evidence remain standing, being as they are rooted in physics and chemistry.
I hope you will expand your study to the scientific evidence. I respectfully recommend that you delve into the database of actual primary scientific literature at SkepticalScience.com. There you can compare your understanding of the math with the actual data, that has been gathered by actual scientists who are actual specialists in the disciplines of Earth system sciences, who have actually perfomed the field work.