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Global Warming Finally Debunked </sarcasm>

posted by mattie_p on Sunday February 16 2014, @07:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the conspiracy-or-consensus dept.

AudioGuy writes:

"You heard it here first. According to Natural News, a NASA report has verified that carbon dioxide actually cools the atmosphere.

Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA's Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence."

[Ed. note] I'm going to post this, because why not argue science that has been settled? Also, we needed to test the algorithm that generated mod points by sparking conversation. This was as good a way as any to get posts quickly. Sorry if you thought SoylentNews really endorsed this. ~Mattie_p

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Maow on Sunday February 16 2014, @08:07PM

    by Maow (8) on Sunday February 16 2014, @08:07PM (#295) Homepage

    WTF is this story doing here, I'm asking myself.

    Even Alexander Graham Bell, of telephone fame, recognised the potential problem, in the early 1900s:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#Hi story [wikipedia.org]

    The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824. The argument and the evidence was further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838, and reasoned from experimental observations by John Tyndall in 1859, and more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896.[12][13]

    In 1917 Alexander Graham Bell wrote “[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse effect”, and “The net result is the greenhouse becomes a sort of hot-house.”[14][15] Bell went on to also advocate for the use of alternate energy sources, such as solar energy.[16]

    This story will eventually turn up in denialists' search results. Perhaps far down the list, but having pollution like this on their site is why Popular Science decided to end user comments entirely - having denialist snippets associated with PopSci in search results lends them credence.

    I'm finding this terribly disturbing. Even for April Fools' Day it'd be a bad choice, IMHO.

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