The sensationalism is directly from the hysterical "scientists" themselves to get the press coverage needed to promote their own belief system.
Clearly not because media sensationalism exists in all subjects. Therefore it would be downright odd if it
didn't exist on the subject of global warming. The over the top news articles I see are bad interpretations or simplifications on the journalists part.
This one, nothing wrong with it:
I am trying real hard just to imagine what you think is wrong with it. There is nothing wrong with it. That you cannot even provide a reason why it is wrong "speaks volumes".
This one, nothing wrong with it:
A Tamino groupie.....figures. I'll bet you believe every word and graph he pukes out. I
I haven't seen you complaining about scientists hypothesing over a deep solar minimum.
I don't complain, just sit back and watch the "experts" soil their pants trying to talk their way out of another blown prediction of SC24 going off the charts, and the warmologists wincing at the release of every new research paper poking them in the eye. Have you kept track of the many solar papers since IPCC AR4, and the ones they ignored?
Do you find something odd with the idea that scientific organizations around the world are lying about a subject and the only truth in the world on the subject is a little known think tank?
Link to the vote that was taken amongst the members of each organization. It is largely herd mentality and pimping for research funds. No crisis, no more milk from the government teet. It's no different than GE currently being in bed with Obama, or the FDA and pharmaceutical revolving doors.
I guess you have read nothing on the subject then because noone is claiming it will become acidic
You should know better by now to say "noone" or "never". How many quotes would you like? 10, 50, 100? No more semantics games, I know very well the difference between acid and alkaline, ok?
Carbon turning oceans acidic, experts warnNAIROBI, Kenya - The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, German researchers told delegates at a U.N. conference on climate change.Mussels face extinction as oceans turn acidicwww.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3312937/Mussels-face-extinction-as-oceans-turn-acidic.htmlIt's the SOS, different catastrophe.
All irrelevant and missing the point which is that conference couldn't possibly have been claiming anything about the following 2 weeks or following season. It would have been talking about the long term trend. Therefore citing snowfall 2 weeks after the conference, or even in the following season as if this disproves what was said at the conference is an act of misdirection.
The UN conference was intended for the current state of the climate as the IPCC had the science all wrapped up; clearly, the world was on the road to onward and upward global warming, and those in the ski resort business had better find an alternative form of income. Socold, how utterly stupid do you want to look if I have to search through the archives? glc makes the same mistake and you just did above by claiming "noone" says the oceans will be acidic.
Just because you don't like their conclusions you are effectively trying to silence them. Thank god you aren't in power of any kind.
You've got the gonads to say that when there actually is silencing of criticism by the very organizations you support, universities, government, IPCC, etc. Then there is Tamino, RealClimate, Romm......go right down the list. They routinely censor and remove posts that disagree with them. Again, how stupid do you want to look? If you don't know this it's because you have your head stuck in the sand reading only pseudo science sites propped up by think-tanks. Noone who actually follows this subject for this long can possibly have questions like these. They would have found the answers by now.
It sounds like all you read are headlines, try reading the following, or are you afraid of breaking something?
CO2, GLOBAL WARMING AND CORAL REEFS: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTUREwww.co2science.org/education/reports/corals/coralreefs.pdfYou are impressed by numbers, there are well over 200 references. I can only post a small portion as the number exceeds 60,000 characters.
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