Some people must be living under a rock or only listen to the ABC or read the Guardian to form the opinion that "the issue is getting some to admit that the problem exists".
Nope. You can go back through this thread and see that there are plenty of posters disagreeing with the science, from skepticism of future predictions to outright mistruths about scientific facts. For an example this one right here:
Originally Posted by
HabuHunter
Is it “Global cooling” as touted by the IPCC in the 1970s? Or is it “global warming” as touted by the IPCC in the 1990s?
or is it “Climate Change” as touted by the IPCC in recent times?
Nope. It is a myth that the scientific consensus in the 70s predicted cooling. The IPCC
wasn't formed until 1988, so saying the IPCC was "touting Global cooling" in the 70s is downright false. It was more of a media invention. Even in the 70s the majority of peer reviewed papers
indicated a warming trend, not a cooling one. The reason a few studies
indicated global cooling was an increase in SO2 levels at the time, for which limits were enacted for environmental reasons. All of it is totally explainable.
Maybe its all these things.... because the climate has always changed. The world has been a lot colder in the past and the world has been a lot hotter in the past.... all without human produced CO2.
Nope.
That has been totally and thoroughly debunked for a while now. The recorded temperatures aren't the issue concerning scientists. It's the
huge rate of warming that concerns them, much faster than anything in history. All of it
directly linked to human produced C02, which is
which is directly linked to the extremely fast rate of change.
All of this is explained
in a great visual format in this chart here. If scroll all the way down to the bottom of the chart you can see why scientists are concerned by the
rate of change in temperature over the last 50 years or so.