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Thread #84203   Message #1553330
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
31-Aug-05 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: Katrina's real name?
Subject: RE: BS: Katrina's real name?
Articles like that make good headlines, but aren't actually true.

Atmospheric C02 levels are much higher than historical averages. TRUE

Human Activity is responsible for at least some of that rise. TRUE

There is a historic correlation between higher CO2 levels and higher temperatures. TRUE

We have a likely mechanism for C02 to cause increased global energy retention, 'global warming', rather than be an effect of global warming.

Weather systems really do one thing( this is the quick and almost true summary version, ignore if you know this)
They shift heat from near the equator, where there is a net energy gain due to solar radiation, to near the poles where there is a net energy loss. If there is more energy in the system, then it is thought   more intense weather systems will form. In simple terms this means bigger storms etc.


Real science has uncetainty and citations for generations. Newton and Maxwell may be assumed to be correct now. The science here isn't so well understood yet.