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What is (and isn't) the AGW Scientific Consensus?

It’s because you move the goalposts when I do.
The goalpost is “ empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming”
It is ether in the IPCC report or it’s not, and you have never been able to quote the section that shows the above evidence.
 
It’s a giant worldwide conspiracy!
No, the AGW scare isn't a conspiracy. Not as I think of conspiracies anyway. Different groups are not "conspiring." It has become an economic force of it's own, and people want to dip into it. It's human nature. Not a conspiracy.
 
The goalpost is “ empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming”
It is ether in the IPCC report or it’s not, and you have never been able to quote the section that shows the above evidence.
It’s there.

Not my problem you can’t find it.

And not my job to show you yet again.
 
It’s there.

Not my problem you can’t find it.

And not my job to show you yet again.
Actually since you are the one making the claim that the IPCC report contains empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming, you need to support your claim!
Also your claim that you have cited and quoted the empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming from the IPCC report in the past is false!
 
WTF?
Again?
 
WTF?
Again?
Again would imply you think something happened before, but you have never quoted from the IPCC report where they showed the empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming !
 
Do they say that they have the data or is that simply implied? The data does not exist!
The National Hurricane Center says they have data supporting the conclusions they arrive at and I'll bet you a cup of coffee that, at some point, you have believed them. No, they have no proof. But why would you doubt them? Because all scientists are scrambling for funding?
 
there are plenty of sources to validate claims made by the national hurricane center, and I question some of the claims made. But this has nothing to do with if any studies have empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming!
 
Again would imply you think something happened before, but you have never quoted from the IPCC report where they showed the empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming !

 
Sorry goofs but assumptions of radiative forcing do not count as empirical evidence!
No one measured a change in Earth’s longwave energy imbalance as the CO2 levels increased!
 
But yes, it does. It directly has to do with believing scientists.
Not really, the statements by the hurricane center can be verified by other sources, but there is no source that shows empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming!
 
Sorry goofs but assumptions of radiative forcing do not count as empirical evidence!
No one measured a change in Earth’s longwave energy imbalance as the CO2 levels increased!
And the goalposts move.

The only acceptable definition of empirical evidence is whatever doesn’t exist.

That’s why i dont waste my time with you.
 
And the goalposts move.

The only acceptable definition of empirical evidence is whatever doesn’t exist.

That’s why i dont waste my time with you.
Nope the goalpost is the same as stated,
“Empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming “!
What you posted was a graph of added CO2’s hypothetical forcing, not an observation that was measured.
 
Not at all it’s at the core of the question!
Not the question of THIS thread.

The idea that added CO2 causes warming is and always has been a hypothesis.
You say that as if it were a bad word. I don't care what you call it. It's a proven hypothesis (meaning it has a high degree of certainty) that is part of a proven theory (meaning it has a high degree of certainty) called AGW. But not the topic of this thread. Open a thread if you want to discuss that.

You claimed there was a peer-reviewed study that DISPROVED that CO2 could NOT contribute to Global Warming and, though not the topic of this thread, I asked you for a quote and a link. And you failed. So there is not much more to say about the topic.
 
Citing the IPCC almost guarantees being published.
You have NO clue how peer-review works, do you? You ALMOST convinced me that you had a clue about science when you talked about all those magazines you subscribe to. But by subscribing to magazines and not READING them (or understanding them... not sure which), you're just throwing money away.

There is NO way a peer-review publication would accept to publish a study just because it cites the IPCC. One REQUIREMENT to pass peer-review is that the study contributes something NEW. There are many studies going on in universities almost on a daily basis that CONFIRM the findings of peer-reviewed studies in respect to the AGW consensus. They would not be accepted because, even though they are usually well-written and very well researched and documented, they don't contribute anything new. They are usually term papers... probably at an MS or PhD level. But not a PhD thesis BTW. Because a PhD thesis ALSO must contribute something new to the existing body of knowledge.
 
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the hypothesis that added CO2 causes warming is central to any agreement that NetZero CO2 emissions would alter what is happening with the climate.
There is no empirical evidence that added CO2 causes warming, and saying the words, “it is a proven hypothesis” does not change the facts!

I have not stated that a peer reviewed study disproved that CO2 could NOT contribute to global warming ( that’s a double negative),
What I said was the data in several peer reviewed studies show that all of our warming since year 2000, is from increased Shortwave absorbed solar radiation! Warming from added CO2 according to the hypothesis, would happen in the longwave spectrum.
 
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