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  • How to Win The Climate Change Debate Every time

  • There are many common beliefs about what climate change actually is. This is a problem that

  • is specific to this current generation due to the technological advances that are supposedly

  • the cause. There is a high amount of activism going on about stopping man-made climate change,

  • but I'm going to show you why this is a waste of time. Climate change and global warming

  • are not the same things. Let's look at the definitions. Based on Global

  • Warming the unabridged guide..."Global Warming is the rise in the average temperature of

  • Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and it's projected continuation."

  • This rise in temperature is due to the activities of humans and that is from a 95% consensus

  • from scientist on a U.N. panel. In short the definition of global warming is that the actions

  • of humans are causing the earth to get hotter and it will eventually lead to the end of

  • the earth. It is not the same thing as climate change. Climate change is something that has

  • been going on since the beginning of time. It is the natural fluctuation of the earth's

  • climate. We don't have any control of it. For example, who cause who caused the ice

  • age? Was it the dinosaurs? Who brought us out of the ice age? Was it the first human

  • settlers that caused the earth to thaw by their smoke signal and camp fires harming

  • the ozone layer? If you think about if longer than two minutes you will realize it's not

  • likely. The first claim I will debunk is this. Cow

  • flatulence is causing the Ozone later to open and cause global warming. Many of you may

  • feel this is just a ridiculous claim that I am making up. If only that was the case.

  • The White House wants to regulate cow farts. Vaccines are even being developed to decrease

  • the amount of greenhouse gases(cattle flatulence) being emitted. Australian farmers are even

  • signing their sheep and cattle up to get vaccinated for this purpose.

  • Let's use common sense. If cow or cattle flatulence is so dangerous to this planet, what happened

  • when the dinosaurs were around? Dinosaurs are said to have roamed the planet for 165

  • million years. Over the span of 165 million years you can safely figure that the accumulated

  • population of dinosaurs exceeds that of cows and other cattle of this present time. You

  • can also safely figure that dinosaurs are multiple times more massive than cows and

  • any other animal on this planet. We could look at the recent discovery of the Titanosaurus

  • for reference. This is said to be the largest animal to ever walk the planet. The point

  • is that the dinosaurs would have emitted more greenhouse gases than cows due to their gargantuan

  • size. They also would have emitted more gas over a time of 165 million years. According

  • to the original claim this should have caused many massive holes in the ozone layer. As

  • you can see the earth is not a ball of flames, and not only that but we had an ice age. We

  • should have had an extremely hot age with those high amount of global warming causing

  • factors.But we did not. Simply put, the ice age we had was natural climate change. This

  • climate change happens without the actions of humans. Another point you must consider

  • is how we left the ice age, surely is was not because of the camp fires of settlers

  • emitting gases into the ozone later. The second claim is that human caused global

  • warming is causing the polar bears to almost go extinct. The idea is that global warming

  • is melting the polar ice caps and is destroying their environment. This is causing them to

  • die and even eat one another. The polar bear has been the mascot for the cause of global

  • warming for many years but when looking at the numbers, the claims do not add up. In

  • the 1950's it was reported that there are 5,000 to 10,000 living polar bears in the

  • world. In the year 2014, it is reported that there are 22,600 to 32,000 living polar bears

  • on the planet. That is four times the amount from the 1950's. As far as their habitat is

  • concerned, in 2007 Al Gore spoke intensely about scientific research he had seen and

  • predicted the entire north polar ice caps will vanish. If we look at the data from 2013

  • we actually see that the polar ice caps are still there and they have increased from the

  • last year. The third claim is that we actually have to

  • take action to stop global warming. There are billions of dollars being spent and solution

  • being created to stop global warming. Politicians are making speeches about going green by using

  • wind and solar power so we can cut down carbon emissions. This sounds nice and I would love

  • to have every home powered by solar panels but if this is solely because of global warming

  • then there is a problem. Global warming has been on a 17 years plus pause. According to

  • NASA it's been for 17 years and six months. If we bring it up to date we see its been

  • 17 years and nine months. This is startling information considering the growth of the

  • population. More people means more carbon emissions going into the atmosphere. That

  • means we should see more global warming. More global warming would bring a hotter earth

  • and we would see a continuous increase in temperature every year. That has not been

  • the case with this 17 year pause. We also have more cars on the road than ever. According

  • to a study by Wards Auto, the population of cars on the road is over one Billion. We see

  • an increase in global warming causing factors, but no increase in temperature. If you haven't

  • noticed, we have experienced record-breaking cold temperatures recently around the world.

  • For example, it recently snowed in Egypt for the first time in 112 years.

  • The forth claim is that global warming is actually climate change. Global warming is

  • not climate change. The global warming definition is specifically specified as the increase

  • in earth's temperature due to UV rays beaming through the holes in the ozone layer. The

  • holes in the ozone layer are supposed to be caused by the actions of humans. Climate change

  • is the earth's natural cycle of changing. One example of that would be the ice age.

  • The only you hear global warming is causing climate change, is because those who proposed

  • global warming is real could not back up their claims that humans are causing the earth to

  • get hotter. It didn't make sense to continue making their claims in an alarming manner

  • if we are on the receiving end of record cold temperatures. They had to come up with a way

  • to justify spending billions of dollars. The tried to do this by saying global warming

  • is causing the polar vortex. The explanation of this is that the damages to the ozone layer

  • are causing the earth to act unnatural and the polar vortex is causing the record cold

  • temperatures. There are recent articles claiming to show the effects of the polar vortex with

  • Niagara Falls being frozen over. The problem with this is that in 1974 Time Magazine claimed

  • the polar vortex was caused due to global cooling. That's right the complete opposite

  • of global warming. We can also look back as far as 1911 and see that this is not the first

  • time Niagara falls has frozen over. The fifth claim is that there is a 95% consensus

  • that humans cause global warming. With this consensus claim you may also hear about a

  • 97%, 98% and even a 99% consensus. Many of those who agree with that claim would say

  • I am disagreeing with science in general. They would have you believe that the 95%,97%

  • or whatever percentage they are using at the moment represents all scientist. These claims

  • come from the likes of John Oliver all the way to Barack Obama. We continually hear these

  • claims but if you look closer they are not true. Majority of scientist do not agree with

  • man-made climate change. The original claim of a 95% consensus agreeing on human caused

  • global warming comes from a U.N. panel. They are specifically known as the Intergovernmental

  • Panel on Climate change (IPCC) and it's often claimed that there are 4,000 scientist who

  • reviewed the reports. You should know that 4,000 scientist did not write the report.

  • 4,000 scientist did not review the report. When you take out the duplicated names it

  • takes the number down to less than 2,900. The reports are not always peer-reviewed and

  • many of the scientists are decades away from receiving their Ph.D. Some of those same graduate

  • students were made lead and contributing authors on IPCC reports. There are your " top experts".

  • Another red flag is that there are authors of the Assessment reports who are green activist

  • with WWF (World Wildlife Fund) connections. Popular belief is that the consensus is from

  • those who are unbiased. Knowing this information I find that hard to believe. They only want

  • to appear neutral to gain your trust. Another reason why people are saying there

  • is a 97% consensus is because they heard it on the news. Some who call themselves doing

  • research would look at this other study from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) survey.

  • It is not from a peer-reviewed report but an online survey that was sent out to 10,257

  • people. It was only received by 3,146 people. 77 of those were climate scientist. 75 of

  • the 77 agreed to the second question of the two question survey.

  • Here are the two questions 1. When compared with pre-1800s levels, do

  • you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively

  • constant?

  • 2. Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global

  • temperatures? That's right the 97% consensus point comes

  • from a two question online survey. Again ,only 75 climate scientist agreed to the second

  • question. That is embarrassing considering the survey was created to bump up the numbers

  • since it was an online survey with only two questions. And those pushing the global warming

  • hoax bring up the consensus point without giving you the full detail because they know

  • how ridiculous it will sound. There is no way 75 scientist represent the whole scientific

  • community. We could even look at the IPCC panel claim of 95% out of "4,000" and see

  • its not representative of the whole scientific community. There is a simple way to destroy this. In the U.S.

  • alone, there were over ten million scientist

  • and engineers in the workforce in 1999. If you can find the amount of scientist in the world you will see

  • it greatly exceeds the "4,077" (thats both studies added together)representative number

  • they keep using. It's hard to find that exactly number and some may argue about the difference

  • between an engineer and scientist according to the ten million I mentioned earlier. That

  • is just to give you an idea. You can compare the number of scientific documents being created

  • in each country and you will see that there are millions of documents being created.It

  • surely couldn't be just 4000+ people. They want you to believe this small amount represents

  • the entire scientific community. Their idea of a consensus is

  • a joke when you

  • consider the scientific community is made up of millions of people. Think about it.

  • We must count for the scientist in U.S.,China,Russia,India and that is just to name a few. 95% of the

  • scientific community does not agree with human caused global warming.?

How to Win The Climate Change Debate Every time

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