Man, what a mishmash of non sequiturs, bad reading of charts, inability to research, and lack of scientific understanding; sure, the data may not be fake, but t

Man, what a mishmash of non sequiturs, bad reading of charts, inability to research, and lack of scientific understanding; sure, the data may not be fake, but the words are stupid: > There is absolutely no evidence that humans are having any impact on the climate whatsoever. Starting off real strong. Maybe climate scientists themselves don't exist either. > In order to establish an actual human impact in a statistically significant way, you must show a modern trend that deviates from a baseline of appropriate duration. Pick a site, any site. This one's good: > As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/pag... > Not only are we not in a period of "record high temperatures", we are in one of the coldest periods in the past 65 million years. Which means... what, exactly? We are experiencing record high temperatures within recent history, and that's what matters to our survival. We are not equipped to deal with the speed of the change that is happening. > The earth had had ice caps for maybe about half of the time over the past 500 million years. Again, so what? We have ice caps now and them melting quickly is problematic for us. I don't have enough time to address all the nonsense 4chan can come up with. The rest of it is left as an exercise for the reader. That being said, there are no sacred cows in science. Questioning conclusions is important; however, when the science has been settled by mountains of evidence and there is scientific consensus, continually questioning those conclusions in the absence of new and contradictory data is a waste of time. You could likewise argue that the earth is flat for all eternity, and "round earthers" wouldn't be holding their conclusions as a sacred cow just because they dismiss your arguments. Like the earth being round or gravity being real, man-made climate change isn't really a debate.