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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
The decadal average of the area of Arctic ice has been going down ever since 1979. The volume of Arctic ice is down more than 80% since 1980.
The climate has been warming and the ice is melting more on average. The only plausible cause for most of this is human's burning fossil fuels.
What is so difficult to understand about this?
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That is why there are so many skeptics. The climate debate is full of over exaggerated claims on both sides, and it's hard to find any real data that isn't skewed or misleading. For example, the BBC was reporting in 2007 that by this summer the Arctic would be ice free. Yet this year the ice has rebounded 60% from the same time last year. Are fossil fuels the only plausible cause? You don't think that the earth has natural temperature and CO2 cycles that could explain the warming? How can you use ice data that has only been collected since 1979 as evidence? We don't know what happened before 1979, so talking about an 80% decline without any context is misleading.
There has also been a warming "pause" since 1997 that models did not predict, which completely contradicts many claims about how we have gone past the point of no return. There is also strong evidence that shows CO2 levels actually peak following warming.
There is much more evidence in favor of the man made global warming skeptics than you are prepared to give credit for. Closed-minded arguments are not going to help persuade anyone, and is one reason why public opinion about global warming has slipped over the years.
http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda...g-reihan-salam