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Calaveras
Whose science would you like to see? How about the IPCC? I'm no fan of them but you guys typically like to use them.
I use science. Science goes by facts, not factions.
There has always been factions in science. Some people support one theory of something, others support another theory. Eventually it gets worked out. You obviously believe in the CAGW theory. I don't. It's yet to be fully worked out but right now reality is disproving it and you guys are scrambling.
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Considering the size of the atmosphere and the energy it would take for such an increase, that's quite a bit. That one degree C has caused glaciers around the world to melt, caused oceans to rise, larger storms, melting ice caps, ocean acidification, shifting weather patterns, plant and animal species to move "up hill", etc. And remember that it is not ONLY the atmosphere that is warming, the oceans are too. That warming accounts for most of the sea level rise. None of those things are predictions, but recorded and verified facts.
So you don't disagree with what I said. I can provide links to graphs for other things if I want to spend my time doing it.
You do realize that a large portion of the warming occurred before 1940 (see graph I referenced) and before there was much of any rise in CO2 so the warming had to be natural? Why would a continuation of that trend suddenly become anthropogenic?
In regards to your list.....
Glaciers melting: That's what happens in a warming world. No surprise. Melting coastal glaciers in Greenland have revealed ancient tree stumps showing the glaciers were much smaller in the past indicating a warmer world.
Rising Sea Level: Sea level has been rising at a constant rate for a long time and if anything that rate has slowed a little recently. There are graphs for this too. Nothing to be concerned about. Adaptation is the word.
Larger Storms: Sorry but this is false and is made up by the CAGW crowd. There is lots of data available on this. Extreme weather events are not on the increase. Anyone who believes this is unfamiliar with history. Tornados are down. Hurricanes are currently in a lull. Don't anyone take my word for it. Do your own research.
Melting Ice Caps: It's true that arctic summer ice has been trending down recently. But antarctic ice is at a satellite era max record. There's a lot of theories out there in published papers about arctic ice. It's not as simple as temperature. No one really knows. A popular current theory is soot melting ice which you can blame on humans. The are many maritime accounts of a nearly ice-free arctic in some years back in the 1600's and 1700's. It's not solely a modern phenomenon.
Ocean Acidification: This is a major misnomer. The ocean is nowhere near acidic. Some measurements show a very small shift but nothing to be concerned about at this time.
Shifting weather patterns: Sure, weather patterns shift, but much if not all of that is caused by natural oscillations in the oceans; the PDO, AMO, ENSO and more I probably don't know about. I cannot cite you any science that can extract an anthropogenic signature from all these natural cycles.
Species moving up hill: This is one I need to do more research on. I admit that I'm skeptical that this is true in general, maybe specific cases. This would have to do with temperature and there are problems with the temperature record and conflicting measurements. I'm sure you're familiar with the Surface Stations Project. Yes, it's located at one of those awful skeptic sites but it's forced NOAA to make changes to their procedures and some stations. When you look at the temperature record, across the board rural sites with well sited instruments don't show warming in the 20th century. Urban stations, often with poorly sited instruments, show warming likely from the Urban Heat Island effect. Along with a method called Homogenization used to fill in missing data (something that would have been taboo when I was taking data at work), this makes the overall surface temperature record positive. A prediction of AGW theory is that the lower troposphere temperature in the equatorial regions should be increasing but no increase is present in the data. There are problems with calculating the global temperature and I don't think anyone has it right yet.
There's plenty of published science out there to counter whatever you believe is the real science. Just because it doesn't come from the Hockey Team doesn't make it invalid.
Unless you have something you want to ask me this should be about the end of this thread for me. None of this is to convince you of anything but just to offer a different point of view to others reading this.