Did the episode on global warming in Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, debunk all the major arguments used to deny climate change?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free_(Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey) with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson The major theories for global-warming denial which were debunked :- The amount of CO2 from volcanic activities is about 2% of the total CO2 being dumped in the atmosphere by human civilization. The sun is not responsible for global warming because more of the warming happens in the night and winter, than in the day and summer. The air composition today has an increase in CO2 than in the air samples taken from frozen ice chunks buried in the Arctic. Technology is unreliable for predicting short term weather, but wider climate change is quite predictable. The limits of the fluctuation within short term weather are also well known, but short-10-day forecasts may not be totally accurate. The amount of CO2 we're chucking out (30 billion tons per annum), would occupy the volume of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cliffs_of_dover, if solidified. The polar ice sheets were receding at about 20 feet a year about 50 years ago, now they're receding at about 50 feet a year and this is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback_loop loop.
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Yes and no The arguments presented are all well known, all easily found. The people who do not accept them either do not want to hear them (if you ignore a website presenting those facts, it is easy to ignore a TV program saying those facts) or they have their own counter arguments So, yes, it debunked the main arguments used to debunk climate change. but it won't have any effect on the opinions of the people making those arguments.
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No. Of course the episode did not debunk the arguments against AGW theory. The only good argument against AGW theory (i.e. that human CO2 has caused and will continue to cause climate change) is that there is no evidence for it. All these other things you mention are just side issues and distractions. Whether they are correct or not does not prove or disprove AGW theory at all. The only way to "debunk" the idea that there is no evidence for AGW theory is to actually come up with some evidence for it, which nobody has been able to do yet. And, because there is no evidence for it, it is a bit stupid to believe it.
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