placeholder

Please share with us what's "really happening".

Ben Carson touts creationism during Nashville speech Republican presidential contender Ben Carson restated his views on creationism Sunday, wrapping up his weekend in Tennessee with a visit to one of Metro Nashville's largest churches. Carson delivered two speeches Sunday morning at Cornerstone Church in Madison. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who's recently surged in GOP presidential polls, weaved between a litany of different themes during the speeches, including everything from economics to his background growing up in Detroit... "They say, 'Carson, ya know, how can you be a surgeon, a neurosurgeon, and believe that God created the Earth, and not believe in evolution, which is the basis of all knowledge and all science?'," Carson said during his second speech. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/01/ben-carson-preaches-visits-at-madison-church/75005896/ Ben Carson: If You Accept Evolution, "You Dismiss Ethics," Can't Believe In God And Evolution Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a noted creationist, once said those who believe in evolution "dismiss ethics" and believe you don't have to abide by a moral code. "Ultimately, if you accept the evolutionary theory, you dismiss ethics, you don't have to abide by a set of moral codes, you determine your own conscience based on your own desires," Carson told Adventist Review, the magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of which Carson is a member for a 2004 cover story. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/ben-carson-if-you-accept-evolution-you-dismiss-ethics

And rain has always happened. And snow etc. The issue is how widespread, how rapidly they develop, how severe, and how frequent.

More nonsense from you. Obviously since the global mean temperature continues to rise, more places are getting warmer than are getting cooler. This is just basic arithmetic.

CO2 doesn't cool the planet. Some regions will get cooler due to local conditions. But on balance the planet will keep on getting warmer thanks to CO and rising levels of other warming gasses. You persistently try to foist this notion that because some regions get cooler, therefore that debunks global warming. It doesn't.

The environment is not comparable to a farm. Just because there's more green that doesn't mean there's more species variety. In fact, as the globe warms it's inevitable that extinctions will be hastened because most threatened species won't be able to migrate due to natural boundaries such as oceans and mountains.

Actually 2020 was a virtual tie for 2016, And what makes that alarming is that 2016 was the year of a major el nino. Whereas 2020 actually included a mild La Nina which actually depresses global temperature. Since the occurrences of El Ninos and La Ninas are not yet predictable that's one reason why it will be hard to predict when records will occur. But climatologists have been predicting records will repeatedly be broken and they have been. Of course there is your favorite geologist, D.J. Easterbrook who has been predicting global cooling.

Are you claiming that they're not associated? That the big increase in CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't come from burning fossil fuels which also create toxic pollution? The IMF did a study that said that direct and indirect subsidies of fossil fuel amount to about 6% of global GDP. Most of that comes in the form of indirect subsidies. And most of that cost of those indirect subsidies comes in the form of damage to health due to fossil fuels.

Thank you so much for sharing with us this nonsense from that notorious crank D.J. Easterbrook. https://www.desmog.com/don-easterbrook/ The importance of scientific papers and books is gauged by how many citations it earns. Easterbrook's book, from which your quote comes from, has just one. Here's something from Easterbrook from 2008 “We are entering a solar cycle of much reduced sunspots, very similar to that which accompanied the change from the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Ice Age, which virtually all scientists agree was caused by solar variation. Thus, we seem to be headed for cooler temperatures as a result of reduced solar irradiance.” [2] It is to laugh.

Once again someone who not only doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate, but also doesn't understand the difference between regional and global. And there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Australia

Well, maybe for you England.is the world But believe it or not, there's a lot of globe out there beyond its borders. Remember that the issue at hand is global climate change. Not English climate change.

There is no such thing as a single "the climate narrative". The "narrative" if that's the word you want to use, that I'm using is based on IPCC reports that over time have grown steadily grimmer as instrumentation grows more sophisticated and more data is collected.

What don''t you understand about rates and degree? In this case frequency and severity. These concepts are so basic it seems to someone would have to be purposely obtuse not to understand this.

Early 20th century warming was in large part due to rising solar activity and relatively quiet volcanic activity. However, both factors have played little to no part in the warming since 1975. Solar activity has been steady since the 50's. Volcanoes have been relatively frequent and if anything, have exerted a cooling effect. https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-early-20th-century-intermediate.htm As for correlating Chinese CO2 production to temperature change... Even though China produces a lot of CO2, on a yearly basis it's only a tiny fraction of all the CO2 that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Now if air didn't move, i.e., if there was no such thing as wind, over time CO2 levels would rise disproportionately in the air over China. But obviously that's not the case. Wind doesn't respect borders. And weather is all about moving masses of air. So that CO2 gets dispersed worldwide. I'm guessing you're claim that temperatures in China are not up over the last 6 years is based on the same kind of methodology (if such a high-falutin' word can be used for your simplistic criterion) you used for Africa. Once again, a baseline can't be derived from a single arbitrarily chosen datum. Here's a graph with a trendline also included. It shows a rising trend in Chinese temperatures: https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/china/climate-data-historical

This same class objection was used by years for denialists in regards to global warming because 1998 was an anomalously warm year. And for a few years afterwards the global temperature was lower. That was because of the phenomenon called el nino. It was almost as nonsensical and objection as yours. I say almost because the data you are citing is only about africa. And Africa does not cover the entire globe. So what's your point?

I think you should try out on a scientist or statistician your notion that establishing a baseline derived from one anomalous datum is a valid way to determine a trend. If nothing else, you'll give them a good laugh.

But you don't seem to understand is that it's statistically invalid the cherry pick a starting point and move on from there. It should be obvious that one year does not get to define a trend. Apparently not for some.

I don't think you understand the concept of trends. What does the trend show?

What does the word "global" mean to you?

This is utterly false. I'm on my mobile now but later I will link to official climate reports that show The last 5 years have in fact been the hottest on record. In fact 19 out of the 20 hottest years have occurred in the 21st century.

For someone so interested in investments you seem curiously unaware of the significance of rates. In the case of climate, it's all about the rates of change.

Clearly you have mastered the complexity of the various causes of climate change. You should definitely share your insights with climatologists.

You probably think you're making a point here. Care to share what it is with the rest of us?

Sure. And Jesus is coming back any day now... If all you've got as evidence is predictons about the future, then you've got nothing.

Thank you for your fact-free rant. In fact, the official scientific assessments about the consequences of climate change have mostly been underestimates of the consequences of anthropogenic climate change and repeatedly have to be revised to reflect the reality of the situation.