An Inconvenient Truth: blurring the lines between science and science fiction
gives a variety of unusually biased interpretations of the state of climate science and global warming theory. These cover a wide range of natural events and processes which could potentially be impacted by global warming, but which the movie misrepresents as clear examples of the human influence on...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.470.5262 2023-05-15T16:29:01+02:00 An Inconvenient Truth: blurring the lines between science and science fiction Roy W. Spencer The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2008 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.470.5262 http://www.houghton.edu/am-site/media/sh-r-ait-3-blurring-the-lines-science-fiction-spencer.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.470.5262 http://www.houghton.edu/am-site/media/sh-r-ait-3-blurring-the-lines-science-fiction-spencer.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.houghton.edu/am-site/media/sh-r-ait-3-blurring-the-lines-science-fiction-spencer.pdf text 2008 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T07:15:25Z gives a variety of unusually biased interpretations of the state of climate science and global warming theory. These cover a wide range of natural events and processes which could potentially be impacted by global warming, but which the movie misrepresents as clear examples of the human influence on climate. A few examples include the mixing up of cause and effect in his graphical portrayal of temperature and carbon dioxide variations over hundreds of thousands of years; the repeated depiction of ice calving from glaciers as a sign of global warming; the implication that Hurricane Katrina was the fault of humans; and the particularly extreme view that the Greenland ice sheet will melt, flooding coastal cities worldwide. Ultimately, all of these are related to the widespread perception that scientists have uniquely tied global warming to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The real inconvenient truth is that science has no idea how much of recent warming is natural versus the result of human activities. Text Greenland Ice Sheet Unknown Greenland |
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gives a variety of unusually biased interpretations of the state of climate science and global warming theory. These cover a wide range of natural events and processes which could potentially be impacted by global warming, but which the movie misrepresents as clear examples of the human influence on climate. A few examples include the mixing up of cause and effect in his graphical portrayal of temperature and carbon dioxide variations over hundreds of thousands of years; the repeated depiction of ice calving from glaciers as a sign of global warming; the implication that Hurricane Katrina was the fault of humans; and the particularly extreme view that the Greenland ice sheet will melt, flooding coastal cities worldwide. Ultimately, all of these are related to the widespread perception that scientists have uniquely tied global warming to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The real inconvenient truth is that science has no idea how much of recent warming is natural versus the result of human activities. |
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