The only thing that is absolutely proven to produce global warming is the Sun. Should we send the fire department on a long trip?
The only thing that is absolutely proven to produce global warming is the Sun. Should we send the fire department on a long trip?
No, because we know the output of the sun, climate scientists (not Rush, Hannity, Trump, etc) have analyzed the data and have concluded that the sun isn't the cause of the last 100 years of warming. We also have proven that CO2 has risen by about a third over the same period, that it's now higher than it has been in 2.6 mil years and that this change came in just 100 years, while other CO2 cycles have taken tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
That isn't exactly true. Other than nuclear energy and geothermal , virtually all energy comes from the sun. The issue is how much escapes the green house effect.
I don't doubt greenhouse gasses are on the rise, I only question how much we can affect it with a population that continues to explode. At the end of the day it is still just a real estate problem. It is a bad time to own beach front property if you plan on being alive in 100 years.
Well, extinguish the Sun and you and your boy Al Gore will experience "global cooling" like never before...until y'all freeze.
Which are both products of same processes that amlagamated a disc of matter into the solar system.
If you understand the concepts of insolation and radiation, then you'll understand that burning solar energy stored a hundred million years ago is going to seriously perturb the quotidian carbon balance.
Because it is carbon dioxide, water vapor and CH4 molecules that primarily reflect long-wave IR back to the planet as it's on its way out - more of those molecules _must, by definition_ reduce the amount of insolation radiated back into space, thus warming the planet.
It would really only take one big volcano or a small nuclear exchange.
The world didn’t freeze with the biggest volcano in the past.
Bullshit.
It depends on where the bombs go off, Air bursts like super powers would use or ground bursts like a terrorist or 3d world country might use.
That produced crop failure with some crops, not everyone freezing.
Nope, you don’t get that result where ever they go off.
None of the last two have enough nukes to produce anything like that result and airbursts wouldn’t do it.
Amazing, the solutions for our major problem offered by a bunch of trumptards:
extinguish the Sun one big volcano small nuclear exchange
No consideration of actually doing something about the cause.
And if we don't do something soon, there will be no possibility of stopping it.
And deadly nightshade, hemlock, Oleander, European yew, Castor beans ......
We are just talking about reversing that "degree or two a decade" thing everyone has their nickers in a knot over, not another ice age.
Sacrificing another Hummer in the fire is not going to do a thing. With the population exploding and every one of those 3d worlders wanting a refrigerator, A/C and a car, I don't think us building a few solar plants will do much.
Al Gore loves his CO2 ski chart but look at how it compares to the population chart
You wouldn’t know what a real trumptard was if one bit you on your lard demoprat arse.
None of those were suggested by anyone as any solution to anything.
There is no cause that anything can be done about.
BULLSHIT.
Just because some fools claim something...
The bit I commented on wasn’t doing that.
I commented on the fool's comment about much worse than another ice age.
The population is actually topping out.
The sky is falling! Run for cover all you gore-tards!
It's a degree or two a century, not a decade.
And it's not necessarily a linear thing. We don't understand the large ocean currents that are an important part of determining the climate and weather and there is fear that warming could cause one or more of them to stop or reverse. And that in turn would cause a big change in weather, arctic melting, etc which would then accelerate the change process.
Did you sleep through Science 101? Correlation is NOT causation. Good grief!
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