If it wasn’t for “climate change” Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.
There are snow warnings in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Forty years ago this would have been proof we were entering a new ICE AGE. In fact, the Rocky Mountain area I left forty years ago should be under a mile of ice by now. It is not. Still free and clear.
Climate change is real, almost nobody disagrees with that assessment. but the engine driving change is vastly more complex than a change of a fraction of a percent in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide emissions have JACK to do with changes in weather, even in a highly localized region. Wind blows the carbon dioxide far and wide in the atmosphere, so it disperses rather quickly from any source of origination.
Carbon dioxide is, for an atmospheric gas, relatively heavy, weighing approximately 40% more per molecule than either nitrogen or oxygen, the two major components of the air we breath in every minute of out lives. So, carbon dioxide would remain relatively close the earth’s surface, and much of it reacts with metallic ions, in the presence of water, to form carbonates and bicarbonates, and precipitates out as a mineral.
Water vapor, on the other hand, is quite light, and VASTLY more abundant in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide. In fact, the changing state of water, from solid to liquid to gas, make it a far more potent agent of climate change than carbon dioxide could ever be, as it acts as a temperature regulator for the warmth of the air and bodies of water, while it goes through the progression from solid, to liquid, to gaseous form, each change either taking up or releasing enormous quantities of heat energy. Carbon dioxide, under normal earth temperatures and pressures, can do none of this.