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Question for Repukes , is climate change real and have humans contributed?

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Question for Repukes , is climate change real and have humans contributed?

Yes or No

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1. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 328 threads 913 comments

   1   5:46pm Tue 22 Jan 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (2)   Repukes probably think this is a trick question. They might answer a multiple choice.

2. Thedaytoday Follow Befriend 46 threads 530 comments

   2   5:50pm Tue 22 Jan 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike (3)   Still waiting for one answer?

3. Thedaytoday Follow Befriend 46 threads 530 comments

   3   11:49am Wed 23 Jan 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike (3)   Yes or no?

4. Payoff2011 Follow Befriend 5 threads 122 comments

   4   1:32pm Thu 31 Jan 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   (1) That's two questions. Can't necessarily answer yes or no. (2) Are only Repukes permitted to reply?

5. mell Follow Befriend (5) 48 threads 1,290 comments Premium

   5   2:42pm Thu 31 Jan 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Protected   Yes, I believe it comes out of Paul Krugman's ass.

6. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 410 threads 4,107 comments Baltimore, MD

   6   9:46am Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Mars is getting warmer. How did we cause that?

7. SoftShell Follow Befriend 1 threads 452 comments Abilene, TX

   7   10:27am Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Question for TheDickToday: Did you feed Karl/PoliticoShit/121210-1 this morning?

8. zzyzzx Follow Befriend (9) 410 threads 4,107 comments Baltimore, MD

   8   11:27am Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Question for Repukes , is climate change real? Probably. I would not live in the Northeast without it. The weather here is greatly improved when my parents allegedly walked several miles uphill every day in 3 foot high snow to get to school and back when they were kids. have humans contributed? I'm thinking a tiny % of it might be. Something less than 1% of it maybe; I don't know for sure. The rest is cause by things like the sun (as in Mars is warming up) and our gradual exit from the Little Ice Age. On thing I do know is that after the 9/11 attacks and airplanes were grounded, we had a way warmer summer due to no airplane trails in the sky. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2010/0201/Airplane-contrails-and-their-effect-on-temperatures Airplane contrails and their effect on temperatures Then Sept. 11, 2001 presented a unique opportunity to study what the sky looked like without airplanes and contrails. In the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the FAA prohibited commercial aviation over the United States for three days. That's when David Travis, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, thought to look at how temperatures might differ at temperature stations around the country. He found that [PDF], for those three days, the average range between highs and lows at more than 4,000 weather stations across the US was 1 degree C wider than normal. In other words, contrails seemed to raise nighttime temperatures and lower daytimes ones. But the real effect was in daytime highs, which were much higher. That would seem to indicate that, contrary to prevailing thinking, contrails might have a net cooling effect. So, the only real proof we have of anything is of a human activity that is cooling the planet.

9. SoftShell Follow Befriend 1 threads 452 comments Abilene, TX

   9   1:03pm Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   substitute "republicans" for "repukes", and your question will become serious... KarlRoveIsScum says This is a pathetic response to a very serious question

10. Shabba Follow Befriend 18 comments

    10   1:35pm Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   I think it's real, but I don't think it is necessarily one way (ie global warming). The weather seems more extreme to me. I think it's possible we contribute, but I think other factors are either the main cause or are more influential (the sun for example). In general I think this is a very difficult topic to analyze that is used politically to further certain means or ends. I just remember Al Gore flying all around the country in a private jet, driving SUVs, living in a huge house, etc. To me that says that some of the main proponents don't necessarily believe in it. I also remember Arizona State (I believe this is correct) falsifying a huge climate dataset that was used for all of the arguments for global warming. I might have the university wrong, maybe it was U of A. So I guess I would be labeled a skeptic. I still think it's great to recycle, use electric cars, etc. To me resource limitations are much more of an issue than climate change.

11. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,516 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    11   2:33pm Wed 13 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Protected   Shabba says I think it's possible we contribute, but I think other factors are either the main cause or are more influential (the sun for example). At one time the sun was considered as a possible source of the current climate change issue. Solar scientists have sense ruled it out as a contributor of any significance. From a similar thread: leo707 says http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html However, according to Drew Shindell, a climate researcher from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, NY, the most recent studies have confirmed that changing levels of energy from the Sun are not significant enough to be a major cause of global warming: "...the solar increases do not have the ability to cause large global temperature increases...greenhouse gases are indeed playing the dominant role..." The Sun is once again less bright as we approach solar minimum, yet global warming continues."