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Carbon dioxide is not responsible for warming the earth. Humans are not responsible for warming the earth.
Mountains of rigorous scientific data and thousands of studies published in respected journals disagree with you. Anyone can go on an internet forum and write "the moon is made of cheese!" but that doesn't make it true. It's a free country, believe what you want.
Me, I'll go with the scientists and science on climate change. Mostly because I trust the scientific method, and partially because I have personally witnessed rapid climate change where I live in my lifetime.
Like most Christians, you don't want to take responsibility for your behavior.
Isaiah 24:4-6 ESV
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish. The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
So we don't need a carbon tax... we just need you heathens to get some religion!
It's understandable why some people are slow to accept climate change. It's an abstract concept.
But when it slaps you hard in the face, you better pay attention.
It's understandable why some people can't employ basic logic in their arguments, to wit, the notion that the mayor of a podunk town with a population of 157 people is a climate expert. And you wonder why climate alarmists aren't taken seriously.
There have been floods like this forever. I live in the area getting the rain. We had similar floods in 2011, and 1993. In my area, the 1993 one was much worse. The problem is that more and more people are moving into the flood areas and more of the ground gets paved over every year, making them worse. Water can't soak into pavement or concrete so it just flows on down.
The worst flood on the Missouri was around 1950.
gotta love liberals. religious nuts have been saying there would be floods, hurricanes, and natural disasters for decades and they never paid attention.
I accept that climate change is real but that's just one giant pile of stupid.
It's pointing at every record high, or low, or snowfall or drought or flooding....just opens the door for the opposition to cite the opposite when it occurs.
Taking an utterly unscientific approach like Mayor McCheese is NOT a good thing.
Well in the case of the Midwest, increased flooding is actually a result of climate change. There are significantly more heavy rain events today than there were 100 years ago. That's a direct result of warmer temperatures and more moisture in the atmosphere.
Well in the case of the Midwest, increased flooding is actually a result of climate change. There are significantly more heavy rain events today than there were 100 years ago. That's a direct result of warmer temperatures and more moisture in the atmosphere.
Wrong. The floods are NOT more common. And the only reason they do more damage is because there are more buildings in the flood plain and more of the ground is paved.
Wrong. The floods are NOT more common. And the only reason they do more damage is because there are more buildings in the flood plain and more of the ground is paved.
Nope, science and statistics says climate change has brought more flooding to the Midwest.
For every 1°F of temperature increase, the atmosphere can effectively hold 4 percent more water vapor. So as the world warms from the increase in greenhouse gases, the amount of evaporation also increases from oceans, lakes, rivers, and soils. The extra water vapor is available to produce additional rain and snow, creating an environment ripe for heavy precipitation events which is exactly what we are seeing in the numbers. States in New England and parts of the Midwest have the most substantial increases in heavy precipitation events, whereas the trends in a couple of western states are slightly down. This follows a general rule about a supercharged water cycle in a warming world — wet places will get wetter, and dry places will get drier.
Climate change deniers are just embarrassing themselves at this point.
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