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 ...
NASA said ...
NASA Drops Global Warming BOMBSHELL, Liberals In Panic Mode As Scam Exposed
NASA: Clean-air regs, not CO2, are melting the ice cap
New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole in Global Warming Alarmism
NASA says a lot of things.
Heathen! Nitrogen works just as well...
CO2 is less that .04% of the air we breathe. Nitrogen is 78%. Oxygen is 21%. The remaining 1% is all the other gases, including the less than the .04% CO2.
You want those little yeasts to die, don't you? Just like the polar bears!
(Wait. Drinking yeasts doesn't kill them, does it? Oh, it does? Never mind then.)
If these tree huggers want to save the planet, they should just kill themselves.
Neither is mine
Or WISHING he could try to... :^)
I’ve got an old Crossman CO2 rifle. It’s great for backyard plinking and small rodent control...
Is the “full-auto” BB-gun version still being made?
Interesting use of the “E” from the Russian (Cyrillic) alphabet.
Don't know if it means anything or not.
Thanks for pointing it out.
Just curious, how many leftists who claim to be lovers of science would agree with the following statement?
“We should have zero tolerance towards CO2 in the atmosphere.”
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