Once again an independent study has proven that global warming skeptics don't have a leg to stand on.
"This study represents that most comprehensive independent review of historical temperature records to date."
"Compiling more than a billion temperature records dating back to the 1800s from 15 sources around the world, the University of California, Berkeley researchers reaffirmed that global warming is occurring. More specifically, they found evidence indicating several key issues global warming skeptics claim actually have little to no effect on altering global warming figures."
http://www.thestatecolumn.com/health/stu...This past year had more billion dollar climate change related disasters than ever before.
http://www.grist.org/climate-change/2011...All over the globe the evidence is clear to see. Arctic ice is disappearing opening up a northern passage where none existed before. Glaciers are disappearing, Coral reefs are dying, forests are burning up, creatures are moving north and to higher elevations. Every where you look the evidence is plain.
And yet more people are skeptical of climate change than before. Why is that?
I think it is because of the effectiveness of the corporate media and the right wing propaganda machine. Plainly put the corporate powers are afraid of any regulations that will curtail their pollution so they have invested millions in the propaganda that 98% of the scientists in the world are running a big scam.
This propaganda machine has so demonized Al Gore - the biggest booster of climate science, so much that he may actually be doing the educational efforts harm, because the skeptics refuse to consider anything he says.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/...The United States is the only nation which denies science in this manner. This has become more and more political with only 30% of Republicans believing in Anthropocentric Global Warming compared to 70% of Democrats.
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/...It is mostly the radicals in the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman and Rick Perry that are deniers but they are dragging the more rational members of the Republican party down with them. Soon denial of scientific facts will become a litmus test separating the true Republican Do Nothing, Know Nothing, party from the RINOS. Then we will see who are the real puppets of the corporate propaganda machine.