May 11, 2013 from createdebate.com

The problem with Beliebers of Global Warming.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/10/carbon_dioxide_and_global_warming_more_is_not_better.html?wpisrc=most_viral

Global Warming Beliebers (GWB) might work in a small greenhouse or in a lab to come up with data to support their scare tactics, but on a whole planet you'll run into the fact that the ecosphere is incredibly complex. Only an arrogant person would claim to understand all of the different intricacies.

Simply claiming that increased CO2 will destroy the planet, while ignoring everything else it does, is a stunningly tone-deaf argument. Yet GWB seem to use that argument over and over, again and again. Looking at a few cities going underwater due to more CO2 ignores the fact that you just helped reduce the world's population and have allowed disenfranchised desert dwellers get a chance to finally be able to grow their own food.

Then there's the problem of rate. GWB claim that the current rate of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is entirely unprecedented over at least the past 11,000 years. Who the hell has been keeping track of CO2 levels for the last 11,000 years? Oh yeah..., no one. It is all "scientifically" extrapolated from available data. To this day scientists keep in revising the age of the planet (that used to be FLAT!) based on extrapolated data (Read: scientists have been wrong before). But wait..., there's more; It is not JUST the amount that counts, it is also how quickly it rose to that amount. So there are 2 numbers that they are extrapolating (Read: the chance that they made a mistake just doubled).

And that's not all; they are also experts on evolution. To GWB, the situation means that there's no time for plants and animals to adapt. They claim that evolution takes time, which means countless species of animals and plants won't be able to adapt. Really? How do they know? Didn't they just find 10 new species last year (http://species.asu.edu/Top10)? Didn't they determine that evolution can be a fast process (http://atheism.about.com/b/2012/02/27/evolution-occurs-faster-than-you-think.htm)?

This idea (scare tactic) that CO2 is dangerous has been a GWB's talking point for some time now, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous. Their claim that CO2 is an unnatural and "harmful byproduct of nature" is based on different pieces of extrapolated data which they cobble together in order to claim that their results are accurate; that's just bonkers.