I do hope that you're not suggesting this is representing or suggesting that the 'warming' of our planet is not real. I personally don't trust the computer models because you'd obviously have to have ALL the data to be accurate and how can anyone know how much data is all. But that we affect the planet is obvious. How much is the climate changed as a result of GHG is certainly beyond my pay grade of understanding. Unfortunately it becomes almost some sort of fan boy of comprehension. Who do you believe and why? Pictures of snow in springtime means nothing. Don't pan with such a wide angle is an obvious comment. Use a tripod. Enjoy the wonders of weather?

there hast recently been a survey among the worlds scientists: there is consenus among a very large majority that mankind made the planet warmer, it just remains uncertain how big the part is the humans contribute to it. That the polution of the environment is a serious issue, has very recently even been acknowledged by the chinese government, which has been accused of not doing enough. in fact i think that china with its politcal weight can be a lot better forerunner in this issue than the united states have ever been.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange

and older: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmingsurvey/

there hast recently been a survey among the worlds scientists: there is consenus among a very large majority that mankind made the planet warmer, it just remains uncertain how big the part is the humans contribute to it.

let me change few things and make it

there hast recently been a survey among the US population: there is consenus among a very large majority that two greatest problems of mankind are breasts of Angelina Jolie and new dress of Kim Kardashian, it just remains uncertain what one of two big problems is main one and how ordinal human can contribute to its solution.

@vitaly_kiselev please substantiate your infos with linkage :P i dont mind some preamputation boobs...

Still doesn't change the fact that temps globally have cooled since 1998.

Global Warming for environmentalists is what the patriarchy is for feminists.

"Global warming" is accepted as fact by the vast majority of the world's climatologists, the same way nearly everyone in the sciences accepts the theory of evolution -- not because it sounds nice or is politically correct, but because there's a great deal of published data and research supporting the theory.

If you've reviewed the relevant climate science which points to global warming, of which there's a great deal, and found it deficient, why not show the world your findings?

@Gamer_s @eyenorth: you must be americans, part of the tribe of the i know it all. even if 97% of the scientists agree, you disagree, i am sure you would also have tried to explain relativity theory to Einstein and you sure know a lot better than any physician how a nuclear plant works and how easily all problems in the world could be solved. YOU know it all better, congratulations and welcome to the tea party or our local hillbilly redneck club :)

Also just because it has gotten colder in your Idaho, Montana, Arizona town, it has not necessarily in Somalia, Ethopia etc. And please your line 1998 bla, if you state something, give us a source, this is not some gypsy glassball we are looking in, if you want to be taken seriously on a scientific base, then give sources.

@disneytoy i heard ignorance and the disability to look further than 10 inches has cost more than one lemmings life...lucky happy bouncing bugger in the wrong queue....

I do realize Global Warming exists. Otherwize not much life would exist on earth. It's the man made part im sceptical about. And im even more sceptical about the correctnes of the doom and gloom predictions. And find it HIGHLY improbable that GOVERNMENT woul provide anything CLOSE to a solution.

@gamer_s indeed, all papers by scientists indicate that its man made. where do you take your extra expertise from? i think we have a nobel prize winner in disguise here on this site, please reveal your identity Sir!

@eyenorth

Once again, Do tell! Where's your crystal ball?

From NASA

@Mirrorkisser @walker I guess this kind of holier-than-thou thing is what sparked my skepticism in the first place - the AGW camp is a bit more fanatic and PC than perhaps the other side. But regarding NASA where the graphs come from, seems they can't make up their mind:

http://principia-scientific.org/supportnews/latest-news/163-new-discovery-nasa-study-proves-carbon-dioxide-cools-atmosphere.html

Personally I have found Svensmark's (director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space Research Institute) argument convincing, especially given the correlation with the recent CERN experiments under the CLOUD project.

And I'm absolutely fine with you guys finding the other side compelling. But labelling f.ex. the researchers at DSRI as crackpots, in breach of logic and dangerous because the DATA of their research points in a different direction - that's just too much. If you look up in the comments, that's just what I reacted at - that a difference of scientific opinion is dangerous. 1984.

@eyenorth

The article you cite appears in a for-profit, climate-denial publication with no peer review, no accreditation and no associations with reputable research institutes or scientists. It is not science in the usual sense of the term. The article simply makes unfounded assumptions about the claims of climate science and then refutes them.

As for other material you find personally convincing, might one ask, why? What is it about climate science denial that's so compelling, that in your mind these minority claims refute a huge body of contrary evidence which you probably haven't reviewed? Why do you, as a non-scientist, accept scientific consensus in most areas, but not this one, even if the rising sea levels, polar icecap melting, and hottest years on record, all of which is in the news on a daily basis, doesn't impress as a layman?

If you think people are making money off of global warming claims, you might want to look again. The big money is climate denial: nice checks from Exxon-Mobil and the Koch Brothers. Meanwhile, even self-described socialist governments are doing next to nothing about the earth's warming, so it's not as if he "conspiracy" of global warming "alarmists" has been successful.