Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
D grade in science ,al gore = 4.7 billion dollars....off a paper that was not factual.
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Free shipping: VITALMX
moral conviction..
I know exactly what to believe regarding religion, politics and and plain ol everyday life.
Seems i'm in the minority on most of it though...oh well, i believe the way i believe and everything in my being tells me im right on most of it.
l
The bible says nearing the end of days, you will not br able to tell the seasons apart but by the blooming of the trees. Or something to that affect.
Interesting huh..
I tend to lean towards the Spinoza theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Baruch_Spinoza
But......this discussion has nothing to do with religion. So i'll leave that debate for some other time.
And how can I get a grant to study it so we don't all die?
I think that the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change hoax is entirely about creating a secular religion for many folks.
Trees
We can remain friends until we meet in the playoffs. Go Doyers!
So I have a question for all of you. Lets say the climate is changing for the premise of the question. What is the optimum average temperature for the earth? Because we are used to something, does that make it better than something different? What if different is better? OK back to the question, "What is the optimum average temp for the earth?"
TM
My point is that we are not really in the field studying and are educated enough to know the methods and understand the data they collect to point to global warming or climate change that is caused by man. The scientists that study this stuff are way beyond our comprehension and field of education so that's why I trust them.
They know that there are natural weather patterns but they also know that man has contributed to global warming or climate change and I am curious to how much of it is really caused by all the ashphalt and concrete if any since it is part of the industrial revolution we are a part of. Look at new york city. It's one giant island of concrete.
To get a better perspective look out the window in an airplane over a large city and look at the clouds and the sky. It doesn't look that great. Man made buildings, coal, pollution, concrete, etc just float right up into the atmosphere.
September 23, 2014 | by Lisa Winter
photo credit: NASA
Share on facebook
5.1K
Share on twitter
116
Share on reddit Share on google_plusone_share More Sharing Services
The Amazon rainforest stretches over 5.5 million square kilometers, 60% of which is in Brazil. It is home to millions of species that make up 10% of all of Earth’s biodiversity, including 40,000 different plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and over 370 reptile species. There are nearly 400 billion trees across 16,000 species in the rainforest, but sadly, Brazil has a deforestation problem so large, it can be seen from space.
In August, NASA released a picture of the Amazon rainforest burning as seen from the ISS. Not only does this decimate the habitat of millions of species in the region, but it is also aggravating climate change.
Over the last 40 years, 20% of the rainforest has been cleared for timber and to make room for farm land. While those seeking timber need to cut the trees down manually, farmers who seek to expand their crop fields will often just burn the trees down. Deforestation is always a problem because it removes trees capable of taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Though the Amazon takes up only 5% of the planet’s land area, it takes up and stores 10% of atmospheric carbon. When trees die or are cleared, it releases that carbon.
It has been estimated that deforestation represents 15% of all CO2 emissions in the world, which is more than all automobiles combined. If deforestation is permitted to continue unchecked, it will severely exacerbate the levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, bolstering the effects of climate change. Over the next several years, deforestation could pump 200 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
Today (September 23) the UN Climate Summit is meeting in New York, and deforestation is on the table. Brazil has not endorsed the document, however, as they have stated that they were not consulted with when the anti-deforestation initiative was drafted. Brazilian law does permit legal deforestation for private land owners and to meet basic public needs, but Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira told The Associated Press that her country seeks to focus on ending deforestation that is done illegally.
Though deforestation has been declining in recent years, 2013 saw a 28% increase compared to 2012. It is hard to determine how much of that has been done illegally, as a key tactic among those committing environmental crime is to forge the documents and permits.
Toward the end of August, Brazilian officials announced the arrest of eight key members of a group responsible for the majority of illegal logging in the Amazon, and another six were still at large. Since the arrests, the rate of deforestation in the area has fallen from 13.1 square miles per week to zero in the first week of September. This was welcomed news, given that Brazil has previously been plagued with controversy involving corruption where the environment is involved.
In an effort to stop deforestation elsewhere in the world, Norway announced they will pay Liberia US$150 million to stop cutting down trees. BBC reports that the Ebola outbreak may increase in illegal logging in Liberia as many are desperate and strapped for cash. A portion of the money from Norway will be used for surveillance crews and equipment, with communities getting paid to protect the forest.
Governments, multinational companies and campaigners are pledging to halt the loss of the world’s natural forests by 2030.
A declaration announced as part of a UN summit on climate change being held in New York also pledges to halve the rate of deforestation by the end of this decade and to restore hundreds of millions of acres of degraded land.
Backers of the New York declaration on forests claim their efforts could save between 4.5bn and 8.8bn tonnes of carbon emissions per year by 2030 – the equivalent of taking all the world’s cars off the road.
The UK, Germany and Norway have pledged to enter into up to 20 programmes over the next couple of years to pay countries for reducing their deforestation, which could be worth more than £700m.
Companies such as Kellogg’s, Marks & Spencer, Barclays, Nestle, the palm oil giant Cargill, Asia Pulp and Paper and charities including the RSPB, WWF and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed the declaration.
The declaration’s supporters say ending the loss of the world’s natural forests will be an important part of limiting global temperature rises to 2C, beyond which the worst impacts of climate change are expected to be felt.
It comes after analysis suggests that land use change such as deforestation accounts for around 8% of the world’s carbon emissions, with carbon dioxide released when trees are felled and burned to free up land for agriculture or development.
“Forests represent one of the largest, most cost-effective climate solutions available today,” the declaration says.
Pit Row
https://youtu.be/OWXoRSIxyIU
Funny, Cuz every single thing I've read in it is absolutely 100% true. But that's your view and I will respect it. But maybe if you opened your heart and get out of your own way, you'd feel different.
Good luck to you. What this has to do with global warming, I have no idea haha..
Or did you mean, "99% of the Science Communtiy that relies on funding to support the conforming opinion believes it."
Ever work within the "scientific community" on the Grant/Gov't Funded level?
I have; but, what the hell...I'll play along...
There are many changing and cyclical issues involved with this latest intellectual excercise: From Solar Activity to Magnetic Field Shift to Ubber-Urbanization...but...why bother with the facts, right? After all, we're arguing "science".
Most-Interstingly...Big City Protestors are All About This...and...they're amongst the greatest "Cause and Effect" of their own beliefs.
Weather and climate are extremely complex things. I am not a climate scientist but I actually have worked with a lot of climate scientists in a previous job (yes, I get around). I'm just not convinced that we are effecting the climate in such a way that the doomsday scenario that Al Gore wants you to believe, and is profiting heavily from, is on the horizon. I have looked at a lot of the data. I have seen how various data has been interpreted to argue both sides. One thing is for sure, a lot of people are profiting off of the subject.
You started out with the line "This video is exactly why I leave it to the experts. I have no idea half of what they are saying." Like I was trying to get at in that other thread. Don't let other people think for you. Do your own research, learn, understand, try to become one of the experts. Think for yourself. At least try to bring yourself to a point where you actually can understand what they are talking about.
HIS POSITION.
Did ya notice the segment where he talks about adjusting the data...?
There REALLY IS A VIABLE ARGUMENT HERE...truly.
But, subscribing to Al Gore's Fund-Raising disguised as Science or his O-Zone Madness form the '90s?
You DO REMEMBER THAT...Don't you?...
Well, I'm not on-board. You see, I was there...when I was part of a team that presented data to Al's little "study" on that matter...remember? He REJECTED A NASA REPORT that flew in the face of his BS...Atmospheric Research that flew in the face of his POLITICS...
POLITICS.
Study SCIENCE.
Make your own conclusions.
Tell the Politicians to GFY.
Post a reply to: Is this the #1 cause of global warming?