Global warming

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Is global warming real?

Yes

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No

Green activists created environmental organizations to increase the effectiveness of their efforts to clean up the environment. They did good work – in the beginning. The organizations, however, have long ago forgotten their original mission and are now dedicated to building their financial and political empires. Having achieved most of their original goals of cleaning up rivers and streams, reducing air pollution and the like, they needed bigger goals and scarier scenarios to keep people digging deeper and deeper into their pockets to fund the ever-expanding bureaucracies of the environmental organizations.

Global warming is the granddaddy of all scary scenarios. It cannot be proved, nor disproved, so whatever symptom a green activist chooses to blame on global warming is fair game. Whether it's a tsunami in Sumatra, a mudslide in California, 19 feet of snow in Tahoe or a heat wave in Europe – all of it is said to be caused by global warming. And everyone knows that humans – especially American humans – cause global warming. Such is the logic of green activists.

Green activists' deceptive 'science' from WorldNetDaily  Henry Lamb

At a news conference held in Ottawa, some of North America’s foremost climate experts provided evidence demonstrating that the science underlying the Kyoto Protocol is seriously flawed; a problem that continues to be ignored by the Canadian government. Scientists called on the Canadian government to delay implementation of the Kyoto Protocol until a thorough, public review of the current state of climate science has been conducted by climate experts. Such an analysis has never been organized in Canada despite repeated requests from independent, non-governmental climate scientists.

Carleton University Professor Tim Patterson (Paleoclimatologist) explains the crucial importance of properly evaluating the merit of Canada's climate change plans: "It is no exaggeration to say that in the eight years since the Kyoto Protocol was introduced there has been a revolution in climate science. If, back in the mid-nineties, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would not exist because we would have concluded it was not necessary."

Contrary to claims that the science of climate change has been settled, the causes of the past century's modest warming is highly contested in the climate science community. The climate experts presenting in the video demonstrate that science is quickly diverging away from the hypothesis that the human release of greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, is having a significant impact on global climate. "There is absolutely no convincing scientific evidence that human-produced greenhouse gases are driving global climate change", stated climatologist, Dr. Tim Ball. He added that the Canadian government’s plan to designate carbon dioxide as a "toxic" under CEPA is irresponsible and without scientific merit. "Carbon dioxide is a staff of life, plain and simple. It makes up less than 4% of greenhouse gases and it is not a toxic."

You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change from FriendsOfScience