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Global warming is real. Only an idiot would deny that. How much is man made is a debatable question. How bad is it for planet earth is a debatable question. What we should or should not do about it is a debatable question. One hypothesis I have read regularly is that global warming will cause weather extremes, so hurricanes, tornados, severe cold, draughts, floods, and large snows will be the normal. This all has been happening.

...POLO...

Or not.

seemed easy enough to find you.
Why is tail having difficulty?

Source?

not to be contrary, hell, not even taking a side, but reading the above made me want to ask...

don't the findings of the great scientists who broke with consensus end up becoming consensus if those findings are true?

He's qouting a medical doctor. That's like me qouting a mechanic when discussing heart surgery.

I don't care either way and am not well versed on the subject. When I don't know about a subject, I tend to listen to experts in the field. Those who have dedicated their lives to the subject, not science fiction writers/directors.

I would just like to see some evidence that makes me believe that humans have no impact on climate change.

and there is no word for "lie" in X's native language.
At least that's what I heard.

Your question is based on a false premise.
Our (controllable) influence may or may not be significant in the scheme of things.

Let's focus on renewables because they're, well, renewable.
They're clean, which helps the environment.
And if we allow ingenuity rather than government to dictate their growth, they will probably be more cost effective.

In the meantime the best thing we could do to minimize our impact would be to plant a tree and curb worldwide breeding.

We compare global temperature rise and treat it like all other variables are a constant.
They aren't.

In 1900 the world had about 1.6 Billion people.
Today's climate is dealing with OVER 7 Billion.

Even algore could do that math. If he wanted. And if it would still pad his pocket.

Has anyone here suggested that humans have zero impact on climate change?

POLO!

Even Big Oil has mostly abandoned the fight against the global warming/climate change "consensus." They are in transition, trying to brace themselves against a foreseeable tidal wave of liability. This is foreshadowed in their internal documents which showed their scientists were aware that they impacted global warming, and predicted unusual global warming related weather events that would damage their off-shore oil rigs it they didn't build them taller, so they modified the original designs.

Notice all the good corporate citizen ads by Big Oil companies, boasting about their sustainable energy, environmentally friendly programs? They're trying to influence potential jury pools. More importantly, that's where the bigger profits will be in the future. Petroleum and gas will be less important in meeting the world's energy needs, and because they are astute business organizations, they are jumping in.

The wave of the future will be small Christmas tree shaped wind turbines, about 3 feet all. They work great on flat commercial building roofs, also they work in winds as low as 2 mph if memory serves me right.

Only in Oklahoma.

And some coal...

Drill Baby, Drill!

We do have some in the West part of the state... That's cause Texas sucks and Kansas blows...

My town has some helical shaped turbines.
They spin like the dickens even in moderate winds.
But their energy output hasn't met expectations for some reason.

I like them and hope they can make them work.
They're less intrusive than giant windmills. (only about 15 feet tall).
They're silent (those big wind mills are friggin loud)

Tidal generators could be a real long term solution.
Wind and solar are dependent on the weather, but the tides are consistent.

I'd say you've been speaking with my wife, but she says "too little, too soon"...

From:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/extreme-weather-global-warming-intermediate.htm

While it is very difficult to attribute individual weather events to global warming, we do know that climate change will 'load the dice' and result in more frequent extreme weather events.



From:

https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/human-contribution-to-gw-faq.html#.WlJ1CGhOmf1

Scientists agree that today’s warming is primarily caused by humans putting too much carbon in the atmosphere, like when we choose to extract and burn coal, oil, and gas, or cut down and burn forests.

We know human activities are driving the increase in CO2concentrations because atmospheric CO2 contains information about its source. Scientists can tease apart how much CO2 comes from natural sources, and how much comes from combusted fossil fuel sources.


From:

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

The role of human activity

In its Fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 1,300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world under the auspices of the United Nations, concluded there's a more than 95 percent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet.

The industrial activities that our modern civilization depends upon have raised atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from 280 parts per million to 400 parts per million in the last 150 years. The panel also concluded there's a better than 95 percent probability that human-produced greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have caused much of the observed increase in Earth's temperatures over the past 50 years.

On Earth, human activities are changing the natural greenhouse. Over the last century the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). This happens because the coal or oil burning process combines carbon with oxygen in the air to make CO2. To a lesser extent, the clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and other human activities has increased concentrations of greenhouse gases.


Stephen Hawkings in a  BBC interview;

"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent if we act now. By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children."

Anyone who has doubts about our UNDENIABLE RESPONSIBILITY  for global-warming should do their own online searches. 

I understand how building and repairing expensive  sea walls appear to be nothing more that political grandstanding (if you don't believe most weather events aren't due to climate change). 

But it's like this; if I'm talking  to a  skeptic and suddenly I see a giant tidal wave fast aproaching behind him, and my screaming " TIDAL WAVE!" doesn't even make him turn around,  just before I take off running I'm gonna point one last time and shout out "FIRE!"

From L.A. Times
As many of the world’s major oil companies — including Exxon, Mobil and Shell — joined a multimillion-dollar industry effort to stave off new regulations to address climate change, they were quietly safeguarding billion-dollar infrastructure projects from rising sea levels, warming temperatures and increasing storm severity.

From the North Sea to the Canadian Arctic, the companies were raising the decks of offshore platforms, protecting pipelines from increasing coastal erosion, and designing helipads, pipelines and roads in a warming and buckling Arctic.

Sheep and lemmings are followers, not thinkers.

No way man...

I heard the dinosaurs caused the ice age...

That was s result of the Neanderthals lighting dinosaur farts to stay warm...