I’ve been picking up a lot of chatter in the last few days about the ’settled science’ of global warming. What most people don’t realize is that the vast majority of published research on the topic simply assumes that warming is manmade. It in no way “proves” it.
If the science really is that settled, then this challenge should be easy:
Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record.
A very small, small sample of things blamed on Global Warming [Emphasis mine on the more inane ones]:
* Incredible shrinking sheep
* Birds laying their eggs early160,000 deaths a year315,000 deaths a year300,000 deaths a year
* Surge in fatal shark attacks
* Boy Scout tornado deaths
* Rise in asthma and hay fever
* Duller fall foliage in 2007
* Pine beetles
* Swedish beetles
* Severe acneGlobal conflict
* Crash of Air France 447
* Black Hawk Down incident
* Global cooling
* Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
* Beer tastes different
* Cougar attacks in Alberta
* Suicide of farmers in Australia
* Bigger tuna fish
* Worldwide hunger
* Longer days
* Earth spinning faster
* Gender balance of crocodiles
* Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
* Deaths of Minnesota moose
* Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
* Increase of wasps in Alaska
* Killer stingrays off British coasts
* All societal collapses since the beginning of time
* Bigger spiders
* Increase in size of giant squid
* Increase of orchids in UK
* Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
* Cow infertility
* Heroin addiction
* Plant species climbing up mountains
* Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe
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