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I Am Concerned About Climate Change

Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming (from NASA's website)

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources.

Statement on climate change from 18 scientific associations
"Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver." (2009)

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Medical Association
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
The Geological Society of America

International academies: Joint statement
"Climate change is real. There will always be uncertainty in understanding a system as complex as the world’s climate. However there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. The evidence comes from direct measurements of rising surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures and from phenomena such as increases in average global sea levels, retreating glaciers, and changes to many physical and biological systems. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities (IPCC 2001)." (2005, 11 international science academies)

U.S. National Academy of Sciences
"The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." (2005)
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
Since you are going to get climate deniers crawling all over you, you might like to inform them that independent of local forces, the suns output is at a cyclical minimum about now on an eleven years cycle. These are actual measurements of how much radiation the sun is throwing off. And by those numbers, we should have been going through a cold spell for the last decade. Instead, we are setting records. Maybe its all the hot air?
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Oh look a list of rent seekers. Here is a question for you. What prediction did they make, based on their theory, that actually happened?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@hippyjoe1955 Since he's related to you, I'm guessing he made some kind of massive blunder due to functional illiteracy.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@QuixoticSoul He took a commercial passenger ship that promised him a safe passage through the NW passage across the north of Canada. The ship's captain told him that he was sailing as far south as he could because of the ice to the north.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@hippyjoe1955 Ask yourself why there even [i]was[/i] a commercial passenger ship heading into the NW channel.
MasterLee · 56-60, M
Science is not governed by concensus.

 
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