Strange how all those temperature records, despite very slight variations, are all in agreement.
http://greyfalcon.net/forcing2.png

Almost as if there was only 1 version of reality. (Or some worldwide CONSPIRACY!!!1)
http://greyfalcon.net/ideology.png

How much data would you prefer?
How about a couple billion years?

Although at that range, everything besides CO2 and changes in Orbit don't matter.

http://greyfalcon.net/climate2

Actually
Both Climate Change and Global Warming are unique terms that have specific meanings.

To put it simply:
Cause: Global Warming
Effect: Climate Change
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

If anything, we should be talking about Global Warming more.
Because it's amazingly simple when you boil it down to it's bare constuients.

**"Is it the sun?"** Sometimes but definently not for the past half century.
http://greyfalcon.net/solar0.png

**"Are we certain that less and less infrared radiation is exiting out into space, almost entirely in the wavelength we'd expect CO2 and CH4 to block?"**
Yes
http://greyfalcon.net/greenhouse

**Is the rate of warming significant?**
Yeah, I'd say 100x faster than you'd expect from changes in earth's orbit alone is significant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bftcWQiZPPg
http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-to-explain-Milankovitch-cycles-to-a-hostile-Congressman-in-30-seconds.html
http://greyfalcon.net/climate2
(^^ I need a better source for this comment)

**"Do we know that the CO2 is from fossil fuels. i.e. "Manmade CO2"**
Yes
http://greyfalcon.net/carbon3
http://greyfalcon.net/c14
http://greyfalcon.net/carbon2

DONE. That's all you need to know.

With absolute certainty "manmade CO2" is the main cause global warming.

Because everyone knows that Orwellian conspiracy theories trump physics, in how we understand reality.

Actually
Both Climate Change and Global Warming are unique terms that have specific meanings.

To put it simply:
Cause: Global Warming
Effect: Climate Change
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

If anything, we should be talking about Global Warming more.
Because it's amazingly simple when you boil it down to it's bare constuients.

**"Is it the sun?"** Sometimes but definently not for the past half century.
http://greyfalcon.net/solar0.png

**"Are we certain that less and less infrared radiation is exiting out into space, almost entirely in the wavelength we'd expect CO2 and CH4 to block?"**
Yes
http://greyfalcon.net/greenhouse

**Is the rate of warming significant?**
Yeah, I'd say 100x faster than you'd expect from changes in earth's orbit alone is significant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bftcWQiZPPg
http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-to-explain-Milankovitch-cycles-to-a-hostile-Congressman-in-30-seconds.html
http://greyfalcon.net/climate2
(^^ I need a better source for this comment)

**"Do we know that the CO2 is from fossil fuels. i.e. "Manmade CO2"**
Yes
http://greyfalcon.net/carbon3
http://greyfalcon.net/c14
http://greyfalcon.net/carbon2

DONE. That's all you need to know.

With absolute "manmade CO2" is the main cause global warming.

For instance

Atmospheric temperature records
http://greyfalcon.net/rsstemps2.png

Surface temperature records
http://greyfalcon.net/globaltemps.png

All the temperature records compared.
http://greyfalcon.net/forcing2.png

But I guess if you want to play games with surface temperatures. HadCRU said 1998 was warmer than 2005, by the tiniest fraction. GISS said 2005 was warmer than 1998 by the tiniest fraction.

Either way, 2010 is basically tied for the hottest it's ever been this past iceage.

Would you mind cutting it out with those science-free strawman arguments?

And I know exactly where you got them from, since that volcano bit is unique to that science-free documentrary.

Cliffnotes debunk
http://greyfalcon.net/swindle3

Cross referenced list debunk
http://greyfalcon.net/climate

Line by line debunk (If you are some sort of sadist for detail)
http://greyfalcon.net/swindle

By all means.

That's UAH. That's not ground temperature data. That's atmosphere temperature data.

1998 in particular had a rather strong El Nino that year. And aside from having a large impact on ground temperature data, it had a huge effect on atmospheric temperature.

Despite that, El Nino events only last a fews months at a time. So trying to drag them out into some decades long "trend" would be the height of naivety or malevolence.

And considering the author of that graph is trying to make it look as flat as possible, seems they are trying to be "intentionally misleading" to me.

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Or I guess one might be talking about the slight difference between GISS and HadCRU for that year. (But that's not the case this year)

Well here for instance is a bit of understanding for that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDTUuckNHgc

You have to look at the global TOTAL amount of heat. Rather than just "It's cold near me, therefore it must be cold everywhere"

Incidentally, long range climate understanding can't be explained without CO2 either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5hs4KVeiAU

Not really.

Human civilizations only really started forming about 10,000 years ago.

Which is less than 1 iceage cycle.

And things weren't dramatically different over atleast the last 8 iceages.

We'd have to go back billions of years for that.

Since as is, we're already 1/3rd higher in CO2 than it's been in 8 iceage cycles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5314592.stm

I'll believe a Republican on how much they "cherish life"
After they support ending wars, socialized medicine, ending the death penalty, and further gun restrictions.
Until then, you can stop kidding yourself.

Furthermore, if you want to talk about narcissism:
http://imgur.com/Qe3OX.jpg

Well that's not always the case.
Ethanol is a horrible idea sure, however Oil receives gigantic amounts of direct and indirect subsidies as well.
Namely military usage.

This is more electricity for instance, however compare Geothermal and Solar, to Coal and Nuclear
http://greyfalcon.net/subs.png

Actually ethanol doesn't eat up that much crude.

But it eats up tons of natural gas.

http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2006/05/25/e85-spinning-our-wheels/

Actually Canada and Saudi Arabia are about the same on imports.

However the real thing to be said, is that since oil is a fungible commodity, what he really thinks he's supposed to be accomplishing.
http://greyfalcon.net/dilbert2.png

Only way to cut profits from oil, is to make oil less valuable.

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Oh and incidentally, Canadian oil is environmentally kind of a disaster.
http://greyfalcon.net/tarsands.png