@livelaughlove21 I can cite an equal number of Internet links to prove that George W. Bush/Barack Obama/Pope Benedict XVI (take your pick) is the Antichrist. Before the Tobacco Industry finally succumbed to science in the US, you could cite medical doctor after medical doctor who swore smoking was good for your health. They did this because doing so was good for their financial health. Certainly, all the scientists and doctors working for the tobacco industry held tough and even knowingly lied to Congress under oath, perjuring themselves rather than risking the ire of their industry.
The truth is that even today, smoking kills 350,000 Americans per year who use the industry’s product exactly as directed. And in third world countries, the industry is still using the same disinformation campaign and same lies they abandoned in the developed world decades ago. Nicotine is and always has been addictive and smoking does and always has killed people prematurely. No amount of industry sponsored disinformation and pseudoscience can change that truth.
Guess what. The exact same advertising agencies, PR firms and junk science “institutes” that poured out the disinformation campaign for profit from Big Tobacco and now are doing the same for Big Oil, Gas and Coal. One is even shameless enough to be taking money from the Fishing and Food industries to promote the “facts” that mercury in fish is good for you and humans need substantial quantities of saturated fats and trans fats to remain healthy. You can find links aplenty to such “truths” on the Internet.
The Junk Science used to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry has all been debunked by the real climate science community. Regarding the links you supplied above above, I will answer your “science links” one by one.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Global-Warming-Journal-Happer/2012/03/27/id/433983
Not to use an ad hominem as a defense, but come on. It’s an op-ed by a physics professor, not a climatologist. It’s in the Wall Street Journal, an organ that has been historically friendly to Wall Street’s interests, not main street’s. The WSJ op-eds were equally supportive of Big Tobacco profits till reality finally prevailed. And the Wall Street Journal has begun its slide into the gutter of journalism now that Rupert Murdoch has bought it. But as promised, I won’t hinge this on an ad hominem. The professor’s claims are patently untrue. Here’s NASA data on global temperatures as measured over the past 150 years. Compare the last ten years to the period around 1942. Note that 7 of the 10 warmest years in the last 150 years occurred in the last 10 years. So his claim that warming stopped ten years ago is absurd. The average rise from the end of the little ice age to now is 1 degree Celsius, not 0.4 degrees. He’s either grossly misinformed or just plain lying.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-10/news/ct-oped-0710-byrne-20120710_1_global-warming-climate-change-intergovernmental-panel
Another op-ed in a business friendly paper, this time by an author who doesn’t even pretend to be a scientist of any kind. Why should I believe, as your source argues by assertion only, that Al Gore and the miniscule alternative energy industry’s scant resources have bribed virtually all of Earth’s Climatologists, peer reviewed journals, NASA and the governments of nearly all nations to support a falsehood, but that the $40 trillion per year fossil fuel industry could never use its vastly greater resources to cloud the truth and thus protect its profits? He just recites the zombie arguments that all have already been debunked here and here.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/13212-global-climate-warming-stopped-15-years-ago-uk-met-office-admits
This is blatantly Republican partisan site. Along with its headline refuting (so it claims) the reality of real temperature charts like the NASA one listed above, we find “Choose Freedom, Stop Obamacare”, which links to this from the John Birch Society. But again, let me not use an ad hominem alone as doing so risks drifting into the sort of fallacious arguments these references rely solely on. The bulk of this article attempts to resurrect the zombie University of East Anglia “Climategate email scam” which has been thoroughly debunked. Here’s the truth about the emails if you care to read it. And this article also claims that warming stopped 15 years ago instead of the 10 years claimed by your first reference. Again, refer to the data from NASA or this from the IPCC. But the John Birch Society for the truth on science? Seriously, for science?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhendrickson/2012/09/16/climate-change-hoax-or-crime-of-the-century/
One more hack journalist (not a scientist) in a business magazine, not a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Let’s see how his “facts” check out. He claims, “Is the earth getting dangerously warm? Probably not, since the earth was warmer than it is now in 7000 of the last 10,000 years.” Yet another zombie denier piece of disinformation. Here’s what that’s based on, and the debunking of same. And of course we have the phony “Climategate” argument dealt with above. That’s one zombie that rises again for nearly every such article.
Now, that done, let me state some facts and I’d like to hear how you would refute them or assure me they are, while true, of no concern. It is a known fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It is a fact that it has an atmospheric lifetime of 30–95 years. It is a fact that human activity is currently adding 29 billion metric tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere every year and that amount keeps ramping upwards with increased demand on fossil fuels as third world countries like China and India industrialize and enter into the first world. It is true that natural sources release much more, but they are balanced by natural absorbers such as land vegetation and the oceans. Growing and continuous human contributions of CO2 are not balanced by natural absorption.
That all leads to the last fact. Atmospheric CO2 levels are rising and have been since the onset of the industrial revolution. The rise is accelerating. Atmospheric CO2 is now 395 PPM‘s_atmosphere, which is its highest level in 800,000 years and its steadily rising. When heavy periods of volcanism sent it higher in the distant past, Earth simply cleaned it up slowly, after the sudden spike had ended. Earth can’t do that when we continue to increase the imbalance.
If you know some secret of how Gaia Earth is going to suddenly learn how to remove the continuous and rising human contribution of CO2, please share it in terms I can understand. But spare me more clippings from business editors for right-wing journals and frothings of the John Birch Society. Let’s see something that has made it into a peer reviewed journal on climatology and survived the critique, because all the facts I shared have passed that acid test.