Replies to post #262271 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

We've obviously made very significant changes, starting with massive deforestation.

[fuagf]

Norfolk, sorry to see you deny the science of global warming, too.

Slightly OT yet relevant. Ask the good people of Fukushima how well nature is taking care of them. See next post.

[Maria56]

Somehow nature always takes care of the environment and we shouldn't worry about the changes unless we created the changes.

Time to stop arguing about it then. WE are responsible and if we don't start addressing the fact that HUMANS are causing climate change, nature WILL take care of us. Probably unpleasantly.

In the scientific field of climate studies – which is informed by many different disciplines – the consensus is demonstrated by the number of scientists who have stopped arguing about what is causing climate change – and that’s nearly all of them.

Authors of seven climate consensus studies — including Naomi Oreskes, Peter Doran, William Anderegg, Bart Verheggen, Ed Maibach, J. Stuart Carlton, and John Cook — co-authored a paper that should settle this question once and for all. The two key conclusions from the paper are:

1) Depending on exactly how you measure the expert consensus, it’s somewhere between 90% and 100% that agree humans are responsible for climate change, with most of our studies finding 97% consensus among publishing climate scientists.

2) The greater the climate expertise among those surveyed, the higher the consensus on human-caused global warming.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm