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Related: About this forumI've got about an hour to come up with a reliable, easy to understand source or explanation
that I can print out and give to my climate denier brother before he heads back up north.
I watched a documentary last night, (The brainwashing of my Dad) and they had information something like 24,000 scientists believe in global warming and only 4 do not.
I hate it when I can't provide proof. Can anyone help me with the statistics and perhaps what business the other scientists are in?
Thanks!
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)My oldest brother is the same way. Show him the temperatures above the Arctic Circle today as compared to normal averages. Check out what NOAA has to say. Good luck, because you are going to need it.
think
(11,641 posts)recognize climate change as real. Not sure if that will help but it's probably a good start.
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I agree with the other responses. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that will convince the deniers. The best you can do is get some of them to support environmental efforts that help create green jobs. Some will go along with that, as long as their precious tax dollars aren't spent.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)It's all part of The Illuminatis' New World Order Plan!
Say that & he might listen to you...
Sorry.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)Smile, nod your head, change the subject.
My sympathies.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,940 posts)https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/
http://whatweknow.aaas.org/[center]http://vimeo.com/88818843[/center][hr]http://nas-sites.org/climate-change/[center][/center]
Maraya1969
(22,527 posts)offshoot of burning fossil fuels. (is that carbon fuels?)
caraher
(6,279 posts)The key difference is that, were it not for fossil fuels, the amount of carbon exchanged between the biosphere (including us) and the atmosphere and oceans would be pretty much balance. You eat carbon in your food, breathe it out as CO2, plant life absorbs CO2 and we eat those plants (or animals that eat plants) and the cycle begins anew. Pretty much a "carbon-neutral" process.
But we're digging/pumping out of the ground carbon that had been locked up and putting it in the (thin, tenuous) atmosphere, to the tune of (so far) about a 50% increase over the pre-industrial atmospheric concentration.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,940 posts)¹⁴C is unstable, and over time decays. This is how radiocarbon dating works, the older a sample is, the less ¹⁴C it will contain. Fossil fuels are quite old, so there is no remaining ¹⁴C.
Read more: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/outreach/isotopes/decay.html