Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum - View Single Post - It ain't the CO2, it's the planets are all doing the global warming.

Paracelsus · #9 (**permalink**) 28-August-2007, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tofu

oh yeah?

Statements like that indicate to me a person for whom the GW issue is mostly political and emotional. They *demand* that people agree with everything they say, and they demonize those who stray from the The Truth (tm). Next he'll start labeling people "Deniers" as if they were denying the holocaust or something. Eventually, I promise you, there will be an even more politically rhetorical label (like pro-life, meaning your opponents must be anti-life, or pro-choice meaning your opponents want to deny your free will). It'll happen.

It doesn't surprise or bother me. I mean, this is the internets. People here on BAUT have heated, angry arguments over heavy lift vehicles for crying out loud. Certainly, global warming is a more worthy issue to get upset about. I'm just calling a spade a spade.

I'm going on the assumption that you meant the above quote to be taken literally and seriously, tofu. My response below is tailored to that assumption. If you meant it to be taken as humorous, then I beg your pardon in advance. So, here we go:

First off tofu, I'm a 'she' not a 'he, as you might have gathered had you bothered to read my profile.

Two: You are reading so much into one little word. My point with 'Yawn' is that the 'it's not CO2 it's the sun that is causing the observed warming' has been hashed and re-hashed several times on this forum. 'Yawn' was my expression of boredom that this point was coming up yet again. I'm not saying that the sun has no role in the climate or that cycles in radiative intensity have no effect on the climate. They have and DO--and I've started threads to that effect. However, there is plenty of evidence available in the literature that shows that the observed GW is not due to increased solar radiative forcing.

Three: I don't label people with anything--at least not publicly. You are the one labeling me.