Fact-Checkingthe Global Warming Deniers
Beware of theseoft-repeated talking points. None of them are true
Melting glaciers.
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September 12, 2013 7:00 AM ET
1. There's more ice in Antarctica than ever.
The past few years have seen an expansion of Antarctica's coastal ice sheets
a byproduct, ironically, of climate change, which has brought increased snow
and rainfall to the continent. Meanwhile, Antarctica's inland ice sheets are
melting at an alarming rate 1,350 billion tons of ice disappeared into the
ocean between 1992 and 2011. And that rate is increasing, fueling global rises
in sea level.
2. The climate may be changing, but human activity hasnothing to do with it.
Many skeptics claim that ice ages have come and gone over the millennia, and global
warming is no different. But those earlier climate shifts were caused by
phenomena like changes in the Earth's orbit. The current rise in global
temperatures has coincided with a nearly 40 percent rise in CO2 levels over the
past 150 years.
3. Whatever happens, we can adapt.
True, perhaps, for rich countries. But the worst impacts of climate change
drought, famine, disease will disproportionately strike the poorest nations.
And even the well-off will be hit hard: Between 2011 and 2012, the U.S.
government dished out more than $100 billion in climate-related emergency
spending.
4. The pace of warming has slowed significantly in thepast 15 years.
This may be true for the Earth's surface, but, according to NASA's Josh Willis,
it doesn't tell the whole story, because "over 90 percent of the heat
trapped by global warming is going into the oceans."
This story is from the September 26th, 2013
We have warmer years and we have cooler years, and nobody knows for sure. They can't even get the weather forecast right, over a 24 hour period.
As for me, I say " Global warming is good for my body. Bring it on"
If you can't stand the heat,stay out of the kittchen.
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