Resolved: Man-made Global Warming Exists.

Global warming is significantly man man made Here is a general website that debunks anti man made global warming folks, claim by claim http://www.skepticalscience.com... Here is proof that carbon dioxide has nearly doubled and increased exponentially since the industrial revolution http://en.wikipedia.org... Here is a similar graph that shows temperature following a similar fate http://en.wikipedia.org... Here are websites that tie together co2 and temperature, and debunks any claims about why co2 and temperature carbon are not always tightly correlated http://www.skepticalscience.com... http://www.skepticalscience.com... There's no question that temperature and CO2 is correlated. You can see that in the links i provided, historically. http://www.skepticalscience.com... Here is that they are more than just correlated, but tied together http://www.skepticalscience.com... Here is a graph showing the thickness of polar caps melting exponentially http://en.wikipedia.org... Here is a scientific article that refers to the ice caps being doomed http://www.scientificamerican.com... ======================= Warming not caused by volcanoes and the Sun cycles -------------- 'The volcano theorists can't even keep their stories straight. In his book, Limbaugh claims that the 1991 Pinatubo eruption put 1000 times as much chlorine into the atmosphere as industry has ever produced through CFCs; yet on Nightline, Pinatubo is alleged to have produced 570 times the equivalent of one year's worth of CFCs. Both can't be right. It turns out neither are. The figure 570 apparently derives from Ray's book--but she said it was Mount Augustine, an Alaskan volcano that erupted in 1976, that put out 570 times as much chlorine as one year's worth of CFCs. Ray's source is a 1980 Science magazine article--but that piece was actually talking about the chlorine produced by a gigantic eruption that occurred 700,000 years ago in California (Science, 6/11/93).' '--------- I'd also add, that the common sense answer to me is... consider all the smoke stacks out there. Consider all the pollution, places like LA. I'd bet California itself is like a volcano very short period in intervals. doesn't this make the most sense, considering how little and how infrequent volcanoes erupt? ---------- Scientific article saying the sun is only accounting for a third of our warming ------------- QUOTE With respect to global warming, though solar activity has been at relatively high levels during the recent period, the fact that solar activity has been near constant during the last 30 years precludes solar variability from playing a large role in recent warming. It is estimated that the residual effects of the prolonged high solar activity account for between 18 and 36% of warming from 1950 to 1999 ^ Stott, Peter A.; Gareth S. Jones and John F. B. Mitchell (15 December 2003). "Do Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate Change". Journal of Climate 16: 4079-4093. Retrieved on October 5, 2005. ---------------------- Here is a list of organizations that accept anthropogenic global warming as real and scientifically well-supported, and give discussions of the topic at the link: ----------------- * NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS): * National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): * National Academy of Sciences (NAS): * State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC) - * Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): * The Royal Society of the UK (RS) - * American Geophysical Union (AGU): * American Meteorological Society (AMS): * American Institute of Physics (AIP): * National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR): * American Meteorological Society (AMS): * Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS): ------------------------- So: -We rule out major causes like the sun and earth's rotation -Our north pole just melted completely a few years ago. this is a historic event that doesn't occur very often at all. -If we look at ice levels in polar regions... we can see carbon and darker ice during the industrial revolution... and it's noticeably lighter at the point the clean air act was introduced... this is simply evidence, but tangible evidence that this stuff is in not only the sky but everywhere. -If we look at temperature increases... yes, it shows we are getting hotter. We are setting records at a more frequent basis. -If we look at natural temperature increases... we see we've been increasing for thousands of years. But, we see that it's been accelerating in recent history, particularly the industrial revolution where pollution occurs. This is in reference to the infamous "hockey stick" graph. No, we can't deduce from that alone that we're the cause, but we can give it as supporting the fact that there's an accelerated increase, especially at our time. -Studies have been done that show CO2 being a cause of warming. we might squabble about how much warming, but we know it causes some.