No, nothing, CO2 is obviously pollution.
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.
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No, nothing, CO2 is obviously pollution.
A stupid question. Life depends on CO2 and would flourish even more with slightly more CO2 in the atmosphere.
You mean, like trees? Crops?
It’s plant food
More CO2, more plants.
Arid areas are greening up.
“Can Anything Good Come from CO2?”
Sure...it’s great for my pellet guns and my whiskey and seltzer water.
“So is the Earth warming? Yes! “
Maybe your planet is but mine sure as hell isn’t!
“Can anything good come from CO2?”
Yup.
BBs and pellets at anywhere from 750 to 1100 fps...
Nye...
A worthless douche, to be sure...
Food....all things green!
I though Enviros loved green!
RE Enviros:
They’ll all turn green eventually...
Not soon enough, unfortunately.
Yes, Algore’s demise.
He does appear in some fairly humorous gifs though!
“...fairly humorous...”
Yes, he IS more than a bit of a joke, isn’t he...
Uh, oxygen?
To paraphrase Gunny R. Lee Ermy:
“He looks like he suck a golfball through a garden hose...”
I'd say God is giving us an opportunity to grow more crops and we're telling Him to bug out.
Man is so vain.
It looks like he is thinking about doing that exact things in that particular gif :D
Yes, you are alive due to Co2...
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