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1. Scottr

   2 months ago

   I am sorry to see such a poorly written article on Catholic.org. Your editorial standards are normally much higher than this deacon. I am a scientist. Not "all" scientific organizations agree on anthropogenic climate change. I read scientific publications regularly. I'm not the 70% mentioned. In fact, most of the more credible ones do not. this article gives generalities and citations without references. I would hope in the future, the standards so well displayed in the past will disallow such drivel from being published on your otherwise well edited site.

2. J Bob

   2 months ago

   With the latest hype, the myths continue:
   Sea ice is disappearing & oceans are rising
   
   http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
   http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_4CE_SeaLevel_files/image002.jpg
   
   Seems global sea ice is the same & sea levels have been rising for over 150 years at the same rate, probably since the last ice age.
   
   From the longest continuous temperature record of 350+ years, there has been no detectable acceleration, in recent times due to green house gas. Don't forget water vapor is the largest "greenhouse" gas we have.
   http://www.climate4you.com/images/CentralEnglandTempSince1659%20880pixel.gif
   
   
   And in more recent times, measurement of global temperatures have shown a plateau over the past 12+ years, in spite of computer models that seem to miss reality.:
   http://www.climate4you.com/images/AllCompared%20GlobalMonthlyTempSince1979.gif
   
   
   We can add from the Rutgers Global Snow center, this winter was the 4th snowiest NH winter in history:
   http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/nhland_season1.gif
   
   As far as long term, here is the ice core data from the GISP2 core, showing the current temperature is not as warm as the myth makers would like to see. We seem to be coming out of a mini ice age:
   http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
   
   All this in the face of increased CO2.
   
   One has to wonder how many more tax $'s are going to fund this slush fund?
   

3. mike

   2 months ago

   Sustainability must include the concept that Earth is in space, and humans are hard-wired to overflow it. If Space exploration and colonization is not factored in to Sustainability plans, then those plans are not really sustainable at all, they will result in war over diminished resources, and the collapse of civilization. Technology must be developed much FURTHER as the answer to the ecology problem...not a reduction of technology and a return to primitive pastoral living....
   HUMAN BEINGS are the most valuable resource, and ABORTION as POLICY is destroying the possibility of a sustainable future. how pathetically tragic, and evil.

4. Jerry

   2 months ago

   And your point? I could care less about the weather. This country is in such dire straight socially, morally, physically and you're throwing more doom and gloom out there. You remind me of those liberal goofs in Washington.

5. cqh

   2 months ago

   This is a great article sir, however, you throw out your massive scientific knowledge, but you do not have a solution. So what you are saying is that if I turn off my heat/ac, and don't drive my car, etc... Then this will miraculously change the outcome?? This world as we know it will end one day, and yes it will be due to human kind. Have you not read your "misinterpreted" Bible lately??? Human nature alone, will eventually self distruct. May God grant Peace to you.

6. jpaYMCA

   2 months ago

   Quite "unscholarly" article, despite the hypocritical remarks about the scientific literacy of Americans.
   
   Quote the Guardian, but heaven forbid you cite the - supposedly overwhelming - scientific sources wherein we could find this consensus.
   
   Is this article truly on catholic.org?

7. Jackie Heinl

   2 months ago

   Below is a link to a recent seminar titled "The Frightening Reality of Sea Level Rise" with Dr. Harold Wanless at Cooper Fellow Lecture Series in Miami, 2012. His lecture is timely in light of recent news regarding ice sheet disintegration and permafrost thaw.
   
   https://vimeo.com/51758514
   
   And thank you for this post. We need more like it so that everyone understands the gravity of the situation.

8. Backslider

   2 months ago

   This article, unfortunately accepts alarmist propaganda rather than look at actual science.
   
   The science regarding CO2 and what it does, or does not do, in our atmosphere is so very simple that a child could understand it.
   
   CO2 is only able to absorb very narrow bands of infra-red radiating from the earths surface. These bands constitute around 8% or the total infra-red being radiated from the earths surface and are also absorbed by other greenhouse gases such as water vapor.
   
   The fact is that all of this radiation is already being absorbed and has been for milennia. Adding more CO2 to the atmosphere does absolutely nothing, because there is no more radiation for it to absorb.
   
   Imagine a jug with one litre of water, which represents these bands of radiation. Imagine also twenty 200ml glasses representing CO2. How many of these glasses can you fill with water? Does adding more glasses give us more glasses full of water?
   

9. Jerry N

   2 months ago

   As usual, some idiot enviro-socialist claims to have all the "facts" and then writes paragraph after paragraph containing nothing but psuedo-scientific gobbly-gook combined with large doses of socialist propaganda and outright lies.
   
   There is too much garbage in this article to elaborate on it sentence by sentence, and I failed to discover even one truthful "fact" in it anywhere. One example should suffice to illustrate how full of nonsense and propaganda is this article:
   
   "The most recent study which uses global data dating back 11,000 years confirms what most scientists already know. The planet is warming, dramatically, ..."
   
   1. the study cited is not the most "recent". Bogus and biased "studies" like the one cited in this bogus article are being published almost daily. The Oregon State study can be easily identified as bogus from the linked article about it, because it refers to the infamous "hockey stick graph" as if it is well-accepted science. The "hockey stick graph" was exposed as being largely made-up and totally wrong many years ago, and is now regarded as a scientific embarrassment by most climate scientists.
   
   2. there is no global data existing anywhere that goes back 11,000 years. There are no records about anything written by anybody that go back even half that amount of time, much less "global data" of a scientific nature. Any data that claims to "go back 11,000 years" is full of potential for error and speculation, and cannot be considered "fact".
   
   3. most scientists do not "know" whether the planet is currently in a warming trend or not. Truly consistent, and accurate satellite-based global temperature data has only been available since the late 1970s, and this is not anywhere near a long enough period of time to establish any semblance of a long-term global trend. The accurate satellite data measured since about 2001 shows the current global average temperature trend to be stable, or slightly cooling, not warming.
   
   4. The warming trend that was measured in the last few decades of the 20th century cannot in any reasonable, scientific way, shape or form be characterized as "drastic". The trend was an estimated warming of approximately 0.5 C over a period of more than 60 years, with many of those 60 years being cooler than the average value.
   
   5. The temperature where I live, in a relatively moderate climate zone, has been known to vary more than 50 deg F in less than a 24 hour period. A change in average temperature of 0.5 C, made at a large number of locations, by inconsistent measurement methods, coupled with large doses of controversial numerical data massaging is what anyone with even a small dose of experimental data measurement experience calls "signal noise".
   
   The remainder of the article goes downhill from there...
   
   Articles like this explode what few brain cells I have left, with its self-righteous, socialist, lying claptrap, and the psychological warfare it attempts to wage on the reader. .
   

10. KM

    2 months ago

    I expected facts. I got mythology. Open your eyes; stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

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