Furnishedowner,
“What about the receding glaciers?”
What about them? They have receded before and will again… why do think Greenland is called GREENland???
“What about the earlier Springs?”
The sun and orbtial patterns have more to do with this than CO2…
“What about the never-seen-before massive calving of ice shelves?”
NEVER before seen??? You do understand that this has been happening since the last ice age right?
“What about the rising sea levels impacting island nations?”
Do you realize the sea levels raised HUNDREDS of feet PRIOR to the industrial revolution? In addition…
Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told’, Telegraph.uk.co, 28 Mar 2009
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html
From the article - [i][b]“And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.”
In addition - "When asked to act as an “expert reviewer” on the IPCC’s last two reports, he was “astonished to find that not one of their 22 contributing authors on sea levels was a sea level specialist: not one”.
“When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why THEY HAD NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. The government refused to let it be shown.”
“One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC’s favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a “corrective factor” of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they “needed to show a trend”.”[/b][/i]
“The data on man-made CO 2 and its effects is now accepted world wide as fact, not theory.”
Which data are you referring to? The “hockey stick” data (debunked) - the most cited data for those who originaly pushed Global Warming, the CRU manipulated data that is now under question that has been used as the BASIS for the IPCC, or should we use the LIMITED (ignoring the colder ones, and using the warmer ones) temperature data that the NOAA, GISS and CRU used as the BASIS for their reports AND computer modeling which has FAILED time and time again to create accurate real-world predictions, or how it not only did not predict the current COOLING, but how it did not also predict the record INactivity of hurricanes… on what data would you like us to believe is “accepted world wide as fact”.
“If the earth’s ecosysytems will self-correct, or what the full effect will be is not known.”
Yes, THINK about this… the TOTAL man-made CO2 (from what I’ve read is 3-5%) is a FRACTION of the actual worldwide total of CO2… the REST is ALL NATURALLY CREATED… The argument goes that nature’s CO2 balances itself out and that ours is anathema that throws it out of balance… only problem with that is that man CREATES more vegetation than nature would have by itself. As an example, there are MORE trees to day (and new growth consumes MORE CO2 than old growth) in the USA BECAUSE we intervene in nature taking its course through forest fires from lightning and other sources (which ALSO create CO2), desease, etc…
“You can base your disbelief on some discounted documents or data.”
Discounted documents or data??? :shocked These are the SAME documents and data that, which are now being scrutinized and DEBUNKED, that you and the rest of the global warming crowd were so willing to BASE the spending of TRILLIONS of dollars, burdening EVERYONE, while Gore and Paucheri et al were MAKING MONEY off it, WITHOUT questioning it or ALLOWING it to be questioned, which is what science is SUPPOSED to do… This is why it is STILL an UNPROVEN THEORY… What is astounding to me, is that you are not only CONTINUING to follow the kool-aide line on global warming, you are not even showing ANY indignation for BEING LIED TO and manipulated, and almost literally having money TAKEN from you to support a fraud…
Add to this, CO2 is the MINUTE player in the greenhouse play…
“But the real data is coming from the observable changes.”
Following your line of thinking… we are WITNESSING record cold temps when the IPCC and computer models predicted we would have RECORD warming… now what?
Its ALL boils down to money…
Does not ANY of this cause you to QUESTION what you are being SOLD!..