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And how many humans were around 20,000 years ago? How many planes, Buses, lawn mowers, lightbulbs, factories.
Obviously not. I don't get what you're trying to argue: that the current increase in carbon dioxide is natural?
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Did you know Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption in 2010 negated every effort made in the previous 5 yrs to control CO2 emissions, in just 4 days!? That's just 1 volcano..
No, because it's incorrect. Here's a graph of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere since 1980 (click to enlarge)
Forget about charts. You just have to look at plants and can see that something is different in the growing season, Our frosts are later then usual and I've had annuals winter over and come back to life in the spring.
I have plants blooming now that normally come in August. It feels like August here. Even the cicadas are buzzing early. It's just weird.
Does this mean we will have another winter with very little snow
As an old man, I've learned that climate change has little in common with temperature, but is generally based on ones political and religious believes. For me personally, it's that the glaciers I walked on 30 years ago are now non existing or will be in just a few years.
As an old man, I've learned that climate change has little in common with temperature, but is generally based on ones political and religious believes. For me personally, it's that the glaciers I walked on 30 years ago are now non exciting or will be in just a few years.
As an old man, I've learned that climate change has little in common with temperature, but is generally based on ones political and religious believes. For me personally, it's that the glaciers I walked on 30 years ago are now non existing or will be in just a few years.
If the temperatures warmed centuries ago to marginally above freezing glaciers will melt. No question about it. As their mass shrinks their footprint at some point begins to shrink faster. It would take a new Ice Age to rejuvenate and re-extend the glaciers.
To the OP, apparently, you haven't noticed the year-round strings of disasters that have ravaged most of the country in recent years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, ice storms and blizzards. Then come the long periods of high temperatures and droughts. As the temperature rises just a bit at a time, the atmosphere reacts drastically. Even if all causes of warming were reversed today, it would be fifty years before things settled down again.
To the OP, apparently, you haven't noticed the year-round strings of disasters that have ravaged most of the country in recent years. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, ice storms and blizzards. Then come the long periods of high temperatures and droughts. As the temperature rises just a bit at a time, the atmosphere reacts drastically. Even if all causes of warming were reversed today, it would be fifty years before things settled down again.
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Nope. Not more hurricanes, not more tornadoes, and not more drought prone in recent years
The annals of history are rife with those events. For example a 1821 hurricane joined the Hudson and East River in New York City to either Chambers or Canal Street. Also, remember the Dust Bowl, when virtually all all-time record high temperatures were set in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., specifically the week ending July 10, 1937? I will admit that intelligent climate change alarmists (sounds like an oxymoron) would say that there was lots of industrialization and atmospheric dirt during and immediately prior to the Dust Bowl.
Maybe you are not feeling it in Chicago. Here on the DelMarVa peninsula we had are warmest winter on record.This summer is getting a good start to be a record breaker. The Ocean and Bays are showing water with tropical temperatures.
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I don't get what you're trying to argue: that the current increase in carbon dioxide is natural?
