Not if you try to understand the point he is making. That the entire global warming since 1880 is 0.6 degrees, give or take a smidge. When you look at the steep charts you normally see, like the infamous 'Hockey Stick' graph, they are alarming/dramatic. Like the chart you posted.Bristolian wrote:showing a graph of Global Warming that shows a scale of 30 - 80 degrees F scale is ludicrous in the extreme!
Ok but I thought the problem was increases in temperature. Farming in Greenland. Balmy summers in Siberia. That kind of thing.A one-degree global change is significant a one- to two-degree drop was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age. A five-degree drop was enough to bury a large part of North America under a towering mass of ice 20,000 years ago.
There is a difference in viewpoints, between those who see the Science as being the most important aspect and those who see the exploitation of the Science. I'm in the latter camp and don't really have an issue with the 'Save the Whale' types because I am one of them. Pollution is a major problem. For example, all our drinking water is now contaminated. It is important to exercise proper stewardship over the planet. However, with Monsanto still trying to control the global seed industry and wipe out diversity and the military bombing the crap out of country after country, and unaccountable corporations, more powerful than most countries, up to no good, what the politicians say on 'Climate Change' should take into account the systemic corruption right across the political, corporate and financial world. The corporations OWN the politicians. They are bought and paid for.
How on earth can you trust them?
