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TIME: Why Cold Weather Doesn't Disprove Global Warming

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/10/2010 12:22:51 pm PST

re: #124 RogueOne

You’re arguing “science works” like I’m somehow suggesting it doesn’t. Nice try. What I said was our understanding, i.e. “science”, isn’t anywhere near complete. You want to argue that it doesn’t matter if we fully understand or that all the evidence isn’t in yet. I disagree.

But scientists disagree with you; they think that when you have a 90% probability on something as complex as climate change, you’ve done an excellent job. They’ll keep tightening it up, but you’ll notice that the certitude has grown over time— a trend even more unlikely to reverse itself.

Again: CO2 is a greenhouse gas. We know that it causes warming. We have been pumping huge amounts of CO2 into the air for more than a century, let alone the various other ways we’ve affected the climate.

Can you provide a reason to believe that the huge amount of CO2 we’ve added is not causing warming? Because basic physics says that it is.