Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast

Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by jdhendrickson on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:06AM (#8652376)

I've linked a short well made video below which addresses your arguments. TLDW Just because man's emissions are relatively small in comparison to the over all natural emissions does not mean they don't affect things.

I implore you, (as you seem a reasonable fellow who values science) to give it a watch and see if you still feel the same way. I'm willing to watch or read any counter argument you care to link if you will do me the same courtesy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by Ntrails on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:16AM (#8656971)

Youtube is blocked at work, but my understanding was that the mass farming of cattle and the methane they produce was as impactful as the CO2 attributed to fossil fuels in terms of increasing greenhouse gasses.

Some googling suggests I am wrong on that though as they claim agriculture is responsible for just 18% of the greenhouse gas (of course one gets wildly differing values depending where you look).

My comment wasn't meant to imply that fossil fuels/CO2 isn't relevant, but it's not the whole story. I was clearly wrong as to the extent of agricultural impact :)

As for the rest of it, I don't deny climate change. I don't pretend that humans have no impact the rate of change. I get uncomfortable with the way it's a "cause", by the way a statistician who questions methodology is attacked not answered etc etc. It makes me doubt the numbers, not the underlying principles (which are experimentally demonstrable)

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by happyscrappy on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:48AM (#8652575)

Can we please not have arguments via video? Surely if the arguments are good there is a write up somewhere.

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by kaybe on Monday November 24, 2014 @11:32AM (#8653121)

Here is a very good presentation of CO2 measurement values:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

I'm still looking for a non-movie version that shows the whole curve we have (not just the direct measurements).

edit: forgot the link

Some more good writeups: https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php http://climatechange.procon.org/

If anyone has questions - I study this stuff.

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Re:Starfish are dissolving up and down the West Coast by lotsofmangos on Monday November 24, 2014 @10:03AM (#8652645)

a - why not?

b - click the "show more" button. The text underneath the video is littered with references.

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