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4. The Northeastern United States Is Not the World.

Perhaps this is obvious, but a small swath of land from Maine to Georgia is not representative of the entire Earth’s surface. And as it happens, the warming effects of global climate disruption have not been as keenly felt there as elsewhere.

The whole race of Man upon the face of the earth and all we do accounts for .0034% of atmospheric change. The entire race of Man is less than a grain of sand on a mile-wide beach. A small swath of land is not indicative of the entire Earth's climate just as the effects of Man is not indicative of any significant effects upon the entire atmosphere. We're not important at all on a planetary scale.

8 posted on 04/06/2018 6:50:56 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: USCG SimTech
.0034% of atmospheric change.

I've often pointed out that the rise from 280 ppm of CO2 to 400 ppm of CO2 is almost completely manmade. There is a natural component to the rise from natural warming from the end of the Little Ice Age and high solar in the 20th century. But that would account for about 5ppm or so of that rise.

The real question is whether it matters. It is clear from history that warming, if any, is good. Civilization blossomed 5000 years ago with much warmer temperatures. Any CO2 we add now helps with that and helps deal with CO2 starvation which was one of the greatest planetary threats to life on the planet.

20 posted on 04/06/2018 7:03:26 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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