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You do realize that tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, sea level, droughts, etc. have been happening since the beginning of time.
More hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.??? "OH MY GOD! Climate change. We're doomed"!!!!! Been going on for all time. In the past a major tornado in the middle of the US or a category 4 hurricane in the middle of the Atlantic would have probably gone unnoticed. Now we have satellites that can pick up any tornado or hurricane ANYWHERE. There are no more now then before. There are just more that are seen.
My town was forever changed (at least until the next storm) for the better because of a hurricane in 1933. Most other barrier islands up and down the coast have been modified many times over the years due to hurricanes. A few of the major ones havent been altered since major storms in the 1800's. Others have been changed fairly recently. IOW, major hurricanes aren't anything new.
In my state there are cliffs along the shore of the Chesapeake bay which have plenty of fossilized sharks teeth in them. Gee, how did they get there unless the sea was higher at one time?
There are ancient ruins under water in places! And have been there for a long time. How did they get to be there unless the sea was at one time lower then rose-----before the first engine was even dreamed about?
Our oceans and coastline has been changing forever and will continue to do so and not one EV, ugly windmill, fugly solar farm or any bannimg of these evil ICE engines are going to do a damn thing to change it.
Mother nature is much more powerful then us. When she changes her mind, she changes her mind and there is no stopping her. Just like a woman!
The state of Kansas was an ocean at one time, too.
• in terms of the long history of the Earth we are actually still in an overarching ice age period - known as the Quaternary glaciation - which has been going for the last 2.6 million years. At the moment, the Earth is just in a slightly warmer period, an interglacial.
• There have been at least four other overarching ice ages in the Earth's history, the oldest started about 2,400 million years ago.
• The Little Ice Age was a climatic period, lasting from about 1300 to 1750, when worldwide temperatures cooled slightly, leading to extreme weather that, in turn, affected the colonizing ventures of Europeans in America.
The Earth is still warming from that Ice Age
The Earth cooled 0.1 degree, about the same as it has warmed since then.
We're still waiting for the science deniers to explain why this Inter-Glacial Period is colder and has lower sea levels than the previous 8 recorded Inter-Glacial Periods.
Natural climate change is very slow. Man-made climate change is occurring at a much faster rate. The Earth has never seen the climate change this fast in the fossil record.
Humans are burning 1,000 barrels of oil per second, 24 hours a day, year in, year out. Mankind has changed the composition of the atmosphere from ~280 ppm CO2 to 418 ppm today, an increase of nearly 50%. Basic physics says it's impossible for the planet not to warm at these new high levels of CO2. The burden is on the climate deniers to come up with a new theory that explains how the planet is not warming with a 50% boost in CO2.
I'm a firm believer in science. If the climate deniers can publish a study in peer reviewed respected journals that disproves man-made climate change, then I will switch sides. Until then I'm with the overwhelming scientific consensus on this.
You will never convince these people. They won't believe scientists. They don't believe the ppm CO2 levels skyrocketing means anything. The don't believe the unusual and more frequent climate events mean anything. The don't believe the global temperature levels mean anything. They don't believe in glacier melt meaning anything.
But the funny part is that this same bunch 15 years ago would tell you that climate change is a myth in and of itself. Now they admit that it is happening but that it is "natural"....LOL.
ABC News..always an unbiased source that never pushes a certain agenda.....sure. LOL
Which one of those facts can you disprove? It seems it is always the ones least competent in presenting real counter-points that resort to attacking the messenger, and not the message.
You will never convince these people. They won't believe scientists. They don't believe the ppm CO2 levels skyrocketing means anything. The don't believe the unusual and more frequent climate events mean anything. The don't believe the global temperature levels mean anything. They don't believe in glacier melt meaning anything.
But the funny part is that this same bunch 15 years ago would tell you that climate change is a myth in and of itself. Now they admit that it is happening but that it is "natural"....LOL.
These events are not unusual, and when faced with the facts of that, you ignore it.
Human beings trust one another only to the extent necessary.
Humans, nowadays, try to camouflage themselves and their favorites behind labels such as "doctor", "scientist", "expert", "researcher", "statistician", etc. In previous eras they used other words to do the same thing.
But they are all first and foremost human beings, and other human beings trust them accordingly.
That is, not much and only to the extent necessary.
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