Believe this because these people believe it's true. ......
Anthropogenic global climate change.
My opponent seems to be under the impression that just because a group of scientists believes something is true, it must be true, and listening to dissenting arguments is worthless. This is the pinnacle of group think, and science has fell victim to it before. Not too long ago, 1969, Ray David designed and performed an experiment to count the number of neutrinos coming from the Sun's Nuclear Fusion. Unfortunately, as Ray David put it, he had "socially unacceptable result." He had counted fewer than his experiment should have if the scientific consensus were right at the time. Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics mocked him and his results. No amount of refinement would ever find those missing neutrinos. In 2002, dying of Alzheimer's, he received the Nobel Prize for that work. Scientific Group Think had refused to update, or address the issue within the Standard Modle of physics because the Group said so. The transcripts from Nova's "The Ghost Particle" will be enlightening on the crimes of the political body of scientific consensus. [13] Scientific Consensus flies in the face of Philosophy. At its core, it's an ad populum argument. Believe this because these people believe it's true. It is in rebellion to a well-reasoned argument. It is not in dispute that CO2 is a part of the Greenhouse effect. Nor is man being a source of CO2. What is in dispute is whether or not the CO2 added has contributed to climate change at all. One complimentary claim to my Evaporation data is that the Greenhouse effect is at saturation, and adding more Greenhouse gasses suffer the law of diminishing returns resulting in null or negligible changes[14]. I'm not a fan of Greenhouse saturation because it is like my opponents CO2 argument. A lot of hypothesis and rhetoric, and rarely accompanied by data to support the claim. However, my figure 1 fully supports this claim. If we are to believe Mann, an expert in Climate Change, then if we warmed the Earth we would get more Evaporation. If CO2 were to blame, then we should have a correlation between CO2 and evaporation. I have no reason to doubt Mann's claim because anyone with an oven or dehydrator can test it. But if it's true then this is what the correlation between CO2 and Evaporation from 1980 to 2005 looks like. This is what a Zero Correlation looks like. Figure 3 The only conclusion is CO2 does not correlate to Evaporation, and since Evaporation is tied to heat, there was no warming for that period via CO2. Now after 2005 there is increases in evaporation, but that presents an issue. In 2011 in both Figure one and two, there is a definite spike implying an increase in temperature. However, since it's a spike, it goes back down and doesn't come back up until 2014. We've never decreased CO2 emissions, and if CO2 were the cause, this would be a contradiction. The conclusion remains the same that CO2 has little to do with the observed Climate Change. As for the claim of "other" supporting evidence such as temperature. Even using the weather station data from the GHCN dataset, it's impossible to replicate the temperature graphs used to support global warming. The reason for this is that the Station Data, and Satalight Data, are heavily dependent on weighting[15]. Now if the weighting was fully disclosed for public scrutiny perhaps a solid argument can be made for or against the temperature weights. Figure 4 is the closest anyone can get without having direct access to the weighting. Figure 4 Perhaps Global Warming Advocates need a lesson about relying on Blind Faith. [13] http://www.pbs.org... [14] http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com... [15] https://www.carbonbrief.org...