"Randall Munroe posted a massive vertical infographic on global warming on Monday:<br><br><a href=""http://xkcd.com/1732/"">http://xkcd.com/1732/</a>",(reply>), i know this is old and all, but i just finished reading this and another thread and i'll like to thank you two for the debate and all the info and good points on both sides, this was awesome even if it got a bit overboard at some points, pretty good info.,(reply>), @Patriot 03<br>Science is not just about learning. It's about teaching. Spreading information to people who are less informed, so that we become collectively more intelligent.<br><br>You don't care about advancing human intelligence. You just like having knowledge, clinging to it as though the thoughts in your head have intrinsic value.<br><br>You mock the people who don't know what you know, and you callously spit on them when they ask for you to teach them what you know.,(reply>), @Patriot 03 Being elitist helps nobody.<br><br>If you don't care about teaching, then you don't care about science.,(reply>), @Error Error<br>These sources will be very interesting to read. Thank you, this is very helpful.<br><br>"Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that the natural variability of the real climate system can and likely will produce multi-year periods of sustained “cooling” or at least periods with no real trend even in the presence of long-term anthropogenic forced warming. Claims that global warming is not occurring that are derived from a cooling observed over such short time periods ignore this natural variability and are misleading."<br><br>In other words, years-long periods of cooling do not detract from the reality that the Earth is heating up over a timescale of centuries. I think I've heard this before, but it's nice to have a scientifically detailed explanation.<br><br>"Increasing urban albedo can reduce summertime temperatures, resulting in better air quality and savings from reduced air-conditioning costs. In addition, increasing urban albedo can result in less absorption of incoming solar radiation by the surface-troposphere system, countering to some extent the global scale effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations."<br><br>Very interesting; I never considered that increasing the proportion of reflected sunlight in city areas could actually make a noticeable dent in global warming. A relatively inexpensive solution like that would give us the extra time we need to work out the logistics of a more long-term solution.<br><br>I'll take a look at the other articles when I have the time. Again, thanks for the links; you've taught me much more in one comment than the other guy could in a dozen.,(reply>), @Patriot 03<br>So now that we agree on something, it seems you've decided to be all cordial and friendly.<br><br>It's a damn shame that you can't be remotely civil when you're having a disagreement, because you've completely and utterly failed to convince anyone around you of your viewpoint (without the help of the other commenters in this section).