Today I just wanted to bring up a few examples of bad "science" floating around the internet. Finding articles/posts like these always get me riled up, but I wonder how much attention I should give them as to not continue to spread the false logic - but I suppose that is what debunking is all about, isn't it?
First up, I read a post about how humans couldn't be to blame for the warming of the oceans. The "logic" of the post is this:
We see water getting warmed by magma at volcanoes worldwide, like Taal and Ruapehu.
The bottom of the ocean is covered in volcanoes, whether it be seamounts or the mid-ocean ridge system.
Volcanoes at the bottom of the ocean must heat up the ocean water (like in crater lakes), so humans aren't to blame.
There are a number of ways to attack this poor reasoning, but ...
