You know what Ray, off. I'm not even going to debate you, there's no point. I've destroyed you on the evidence every single time, yet you're too stubborn and set in your frame to acknowledge it.
You accuse me of being stubborn. My God man, you want even look at the other side of the argument. I do acknowledge the fact the earth may be getting warmer but not because of mankind. And your statement you have destroyed me.....that is just laughable. No conceit in your family. Cause you got it all I suppose you really don't want to recognize the fact that the earth has warmed and cooled several times that man knows about. And I will even go a little further and surmise it may have happend without mans knowledge
I am at a university every goddamn day, 16th best university in the world, and not one of the scientists in the environment school didn't accept the evidence for anthropogenic climate change years ago...
So you are in class everyday. Big damn deal,
you certainly haven't learned much, have you. Except
that man is bad. Do they even try to teach you to use a little thing the called "common sense". Or possibly look at an opposing view.
As for your rainfall question, actually, yes, that could be done. Most countries collect very accurate figures on the flows of their river systems on monthly timeframes. Every drop of rain ends up in a river (or aquifer) except that taken out by humans, which is also measured! YOU TALK OUT YOUR ARSE. You have no experience of research or peer-reviewed science.
Could it now. How, there is so much empty
space on earth I find it unlikely it could be done. And
you talk about me spouting out of my orifice, you might
want to check yours occasionally for leakage. And as
for me and peer review. You are correct. Not me, but
plenty of well educated people who do have peer review
disagree with you and your idols. And every drop of rain ends up in a river. What a dumb statement. What a wrong statement. I suppose that an aquifer here in San Antonio doesn't count. And they have no idea whatsoever how much water is contained in it. And that my friend is a fact.
You say humans are a pimple - that was true in the 1880s when there were only 1bil of us using a 1/100th of the resources per capita that we are today, but now there are 6.6billion of us chewing up the planet at an astounding rate. Where do you think all your food, consumer goods, buildings, malls, planes, etc etc come from Ray? The planet.
Well RNR, I guess you are one of the bunch that say, like some before you, we are all going to starve to death. Which according to some "experts" before you should have already happened. Guess what it didn't. And guess what again, we, people are producing more food today than ever. Gee, how did that happen.
The planet. We can't affect the planet? What about urban heat islands, the hole in the ozone layer, fisheries that have "disappeared", soil erosion, coral bleaching, desertification, deforestation, the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere which is an incontrvertible FACT. Here is the Keeling curve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:...bon_Dioxide.png
LOOK at it! The annual oscillations you see are the global carbon cycle, the lungs of the planet, breathing every northern spring-summer as photosynthetic plants grow leaves! And the upward trend, that's US mate. US HUMANS adding about 2,000,000,000,000kg of Co2, 2 Gt, every year, and rising.
Look at it!
We ARE affecting the planet in 1000000000000 ways.
You are a foolish old man.