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And all the scientist from all around the world are in on the massive scam. But of course Big Oil has nothing to lose so you can trust and believe their paid shills...
Purging data, ignoring facts, calling the world's scientists liars, ...
Not hard to imagine how this is going to work out.
The Paris Agreement, which delegates from 196 countries hammered out in December 2015, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels,” while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.” How much difference could that half-degree of wiggle room (or 0.9 degree on the Fahrenheit scale) possibly make in the real world? Quite a bit, it appears.
The European Geosciences Union published a study in April 2016 that examined the impact of a 1.5 degree Celsius vs. a 2.0 C temperature increase by the end of the century, given what we know so far about how climate works. It found that the jump from 1.5 to 2 degrees—a third more of an increase—raises the impact by about that same fraction, very roughly, on most of the phenomena the study covered. Heat waves would last around a third longer, rain storms would be about a third more intense, the increase in sea level would be approximately that much higher and the percentage of tropical coral reefs at risk of severe degradation would be roughly that much greater.
But in some cases, that extra increase in temperature makes things much more dire. At 1.5 C, the study found that tropical coral reefs stand a chance of adapting and reversing a portion of their die-off in the last half of the century. But at 2 C, the chance of recovery vanishes. Tropical corals are virtually wiped out by the year 2100.
With a 1.5 C rise in temperature, the Mediterranean area is forecast to have about 9 percent less fresh water available. At 2 C, that water deficit nearly doubles. So does the decrease in wheat and maize harvest in the tropics.
On a global scale, production of wheat and soy is forecast to increase with a 1.5 C temperature rise, partly because warming is favorable for farming in higher latitudes and partly because the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is largely responsible for the temperature increase, is thought to have a fertilization effect. But at 2 C, that advantage plummets by 700 percent for soy and disappears entirely for wheat.
Dude, stay away from heat sources----you'll melt!
Nothing is racist anymore. You people wore the term out through overuse!
BTW---you and your Leftist pals are out of power for good. Crying about it won't help.
I'm not so concerned about climate change as much as I am about pollution/contamination, which the Trump Administration unfortunately seems to not take seriously. I truly do hope he proves me wrong.
The environment is as non-partisan an issue as it gets, imho. We all need clean air and water, and an environment as free of heavy metals (such as lead) as possible.
This should concern all of us. He is also loosening regulations which help keep our waterways clean.
This should concern all of us. He is also loosening regulations which help keep our waterways clean.
People mock China for their pollution. Dirty air and dirty water, not to mention some products that have been tainted.
Don't they realize that this is because the country lacks regulations? Businesses will generally dump their waste in the streams if they are allowed to, regardless of country. We don't need to go back to those nasty old days when rivers caught on fire.
Regulations are what keep our country from becoming an open sewer, and Mr Trump and his cronies want to strip those protections from us.
I guess the election was a vote of confidence to those that ignore science.
Not buying into govt science is not the same as ignoring science. It is in fact the opposite.
How does it feel to be a flat earther?
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