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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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What he said is that the nature of the "global warming controversy" is overstated in the media. He didn't say that not a single scientific journal published an article questioning the correlation between CO2 and rising mean temperatures. The point he was making was that in a sample of 900+ published articles, none of them disputed that correlation, yet in a similar-sized sample of media reports about global warming, 50-something percent of them cast doubt on the science.
It's no different than the evolution debate. In the media, it's portrayed as if evolution is a highly controversial and widely-disputed subject, and they'll quote a few scientists with pet theories about "intelligent design". Within the scientific community, though, evolution is considered as factual as heliocentricity.
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My apologies then, I must have misunderstood him in the movie but judging by quotes in this same thread I'm not the only one.
"In the film he points out that of 958 peer reviewed journals on global warming, not one single article disagrees with the scientific consensus. "
However, I was able to find a peer reviewed journal that disagrees within 5 mins of searching, most of which was spent remembering how to log in to my acount
So I question his 958 peer reviewed journals that conviently didn't disagree with him. It's easier to bend the truth to make a point though...ask Michael Moore
Beside decoupling CO2 with warmer temperatures this particular article also examines urbanization as a cause of the increased global average. An interesting approach since we know that urban areas are generally warmer than rural areas and therefore by increasing the urban area on earth you could effectively increase the average temperature a little.
The article also discusses that while the temperature has slightly increased in the lowest atmospheric layer of earth it has actually remained relatively constant in the lower troposhpere since 1979.
These are 2 ideas I've never even thought about discussin global warming.