Posted on 01/21/2018 10:52:10 AM PST by Kaslin
As much of America remains frigid, media headlines shout far and wide that catastrophic man-made climate change is to blame. But is it true?
What are the basic facts about climate that people need to know? Four questions can aid in the understanding of this complicated topic.
First, is the Earth warming?
Second, if it is, what is causing the warming?
Third, assuming that CO2 is causing the Earth to warm, what is the cost of mitigating its impact?
And fourth, if CO2 has little or no impact on the Earth's temperature, can anything good come from future increases of CO2?
So is the Earth warming? Yes! The Earth is warming, and it has been for over 150 years as the world emerges from the Little Ice Age. Atmospheric CO2 has also been increasing since WWI.
What causes the warming? That is a matter of intense debate.
In the 1980s, meteorologists observed that the Earth's temperature was increasing at the same time as atmospheric CO2 concentration was rising.
A group at NASA concluded that CO2 is driving the warming. They developed a numerical model of the atmosphere that projected an alarming rise in the Earth's temperature and made public announcements of an impending disaster. All the alarmist statements from the 1980s until today are based on numerical models.
But beginning in 1998, the Earth's temperature plateaued (currently referred to as the "pause") while CO2 levels continued to spiral upward. This caused a number of scientists outside the "alarmist" community to undertake an in-depth review of what has become a serious controversy.
These "skeptics" are convinced that meteorological data overwhelmingly show that CO2 is not a major factor in the global temperature. Their belief is based on three primary reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Plant more trees and stop talking about co2 - it exhales more co2.
Do your part to reduce CO2...stop breathing!
And don't forget the besides providing us our food, co2 also provides us with oxygen to breathe.
I love using my Sodastream to put fizzy bubbles of CO2 into my filtered water. Yum! I'm doing my part to release CO2 into the atmosphere when I burp. Seeing that CO2 is a tiny fraction of a percent of the atmosphere, it would take millions of times emissions of CO2 to make a difference in the atmosphere which is mostly nitrogen and oxygen. CO2, not so much in the atmosphere to affect anything except growing all our plants and trees; without it, no plant life!
Without CO2, we would not exist in current form...
Exhalation? Life?
Ask Daisy. Powerline CO2 pistol is a hoot!
Yup. Green plants and O2
As to what good can come of more CO2, if that were actually true, which it likely is not (insert image of Herr Goebbels here), then there would be more plant life, more food.
Warming good, cooling very bad.
Anything good come from CO2? Yes if you count plant life on Earth.
Wild guess... Plants living maybe?
Climate change happens.
Humans make a contribution (but I submit that the contribution is negligible).
And the cost of mitigation? Since NO ONE knows what the “correct” temperature of the Earth is supposed to be so NO ONE can even begin to estimate the cost of “mitigation”.
IMNSHO we humans could spend every dollar in current circulation AND every cent ever generated - and still couldn’t make a calculable change in the climate. It is simply beyond the capability of humans.
This is just another scam to arrogate power.
Plants like CO2. We like it cause opur body don’t need it after we breath in..
CO2 is plant food! Plants are necessary for all life to exist.
Any good from co2? Um, plants.
...would be a stupid assumption that flies in the face of facts.
No smoking hot spot David Evans - THE AUSTRALIAN July 18, 20081. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
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