@jpj

Again, I credit your willingness to dig deeper. Unfortunately I'm writing this before work and don't have the time to create as thorough a response as I'd like, but I'll try to at least respond to each of your points.

Global Temp: The IPCC creates models to account for best-case, worst-case, and likely scenarios. It's difficult/impossible to predict carbon emissions at significant periods into the future, so the practical way to account for this is to create multiple models based on multiple avenues of possibility.

What you've done is select the "worst case scenario" as your standard of proof. That's not even remotely a reasonable way to prove or disprove anything.

It turns out that the IPCC's "likely scenario" sticks pretty close to subsequent historical data.

Snowfall: One decade does not constitute a long-term global average, and a decade-long graph that ends on a year with record high snowfall is misleading at best. Rutgers does the plotting for us over a longer period of time.
http://tinyurl.com/6r6kn2d

Water vapor feedback: It has been measured (see AIRS). It is, however, your choice if you choose to believe a thoroughly debunked Physicist's paper over empiricism.

Tropospheric hot spot: Again, we have short-term observation of this, although the long-term is still pretty spotty until more data is collected. Is it a smoking-gun that casts doubt on AGW? Not at all.
http://tinyurl.com/e6roz
http://tinyurl.com/8aypyso
http://tinyurl.com/7cvcch6
http://tinyurl.com/75fmm2o

@cactiki

The planet is a closed system? Could have fooled me!

And here all this time I thought the sun was located outside of the Earth, acting as an external source of heat. Since it apparently isn't doing that, I guess "man-made global warming" isn't real after all!

On a more serious note, I suggest you educate yourself. As it stands, you know just enough about things like the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle to completely misunderstand how they work.

@jpj

To your credit, you have a more thought-out opinion compared to most others. Unfortunately, an opinion based on misinformation is still tainted.

Global temp is continuing to rise, snowfall is in a declining trend (important word), positive water vapor feedback has been observed (not just predicted) multiple times by the IPCC and independent research, and satellite data show a tropospheric hot spot.

Where are you getting your information from? Is it from random blogs and the WSJ opinion pages?

@Piers "Morgan"

I agree that this blog post does a disservice to actual science and that one warm season can't be directly linked to global warming as the cause.

However, you are wrong when you say there are no "real hard facts." In reality, the entire body of scientific evidence points to man-made global warming as a reality. Meaning: the argument against man-made global warming has no fact/experimentation/observation to upon which to stand.

Don't just assume that the only "hard facts" are the ones that support your pre-conceived beliefs.

@playtrombone64

"Do I believe that our current warming trend is caused by mankind? I have seen no proof whatsoever that the warming trend is linked to human activity."

All you have to do is look. The consensus of scientific experimentation/observation conclusively points to human activity as the cause. Unfortunately the average person is still fairly out-of-touch with the scientific community and thinks that there is still a lively scientific debate over that point (there isn't).

@wasdf

"1860…it’s hard to blame industry emissions when there was very little at that time."

So the fact that the global temperature has been getting steadily hotter at a rate never before seen in nature since the industrial revolution(!!!!) when human industry(!!!!) started.... that doesn't suggest some sort of cause-and-effect relationship to you? Let me say this again: Human industry starts --> global temperatures start to rise during that exact period. Hmmmm.

And why do you assume there's no logical data? On what evidence do you base that conclusion? In reality, evidence and experimentation from multiple branches of science point to humanity as the culprit for the current warming trend.

@DPruitt

Are you perhaps referring to the so-called "Climategate" incident which was debunked by at least 8 independent investigations? (Meaning no evidence of wrongdoing was found, nor were there any problems with the data and conclusions drawn by the targeted scientists).

Is that what you're referring to? Because global warming deniers love to cling to to that nugget since there is literally nothing for them to support their beliefs on.

And I do mean literally nothing: there is not one peer-reviewed paper with evidence/experimentation/data to refute or even cast compelling doubt on the finding that the current global warming trend is largely due to human activity. Not a single one.

There is, in fact, no debate about this within the realm of science.

Don't believe me? Do your own research. NOTE: blog articles, Fox News, and "research" funded by oil companies and/or fundamentalist Christian "institutes" do not constitute evidence upon which you should form your opinions.

If, like me, you came here hoping to see some robots do Wayne's World-esque head banging, you will be greatly disappointed.

This gets bonus points because the song isn't "Still Alive."

O, Y, and Z have me stumped.

@ezpzvi

Now I know you're just trolling. What exactly do you think a feminist is? (Hint: they want the exact opposite of what you implied.)

You seem to think feminists have all this power to control the media.... and that for some reason they're using that power to appeal almost exclusively to male sexuality and to simultaneously give themselves body issues. How does that make sense?

@Ryan S

Self-victimization is a pretty common tactic used to marginalize feminism, minorities, etc. If you genuinely think feminism is about women trying to slack off while making men do all the work...well, you're probably too deluded for any rational argument to get through.

So I ask you this:

Did you grow up with body issues? Ever been slut-shamed? Develop an eating disorder? Do you get paid consistently less than women for the same job? Is your gender vastly underrepresented in many industries? Have you ever been afraid of being raped? Ever?

No?

Then I'm pretty sure you're not in a position to talk about men being oppressed by women. I'm also pretty sure you don't know the first thing about feminism.

I see we still haven't been able to solve that drunken, jerky sway that happens after every movement.

Don't get me wrong though; this is still fascinating.

What about rainbow guns?!?!?

Interesting point, but I'd still say it's lucky to have abundant natural resources AND the latent human talent pool to capitalize on them. There are so many places in the world with relatively abundant resources where the human equation hasn't quite caught up.