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Climate change is due to the earth it self going through it’s own evolution. Temp has always moved around going back to 1700s. Archeology has proven it. We are a popular and wasteful
People but we are not enough to change the earths atmosphere. Are we putting major pollutants into the air- hell yes. Do we need to change that- hell yes. But we are. We, the USA, has been leading the way for years and puts way less carbon into the environment then any one in the world. Our government shames us that we need to do more. That we need to lead the way. We already do! Only 10% of our energy comes from coal. Maybe 30% comes from fossil. All the rest comes from NATURAL gas and green energy. Go to Elia. gov. The truth of all energy statistics you could dream of is there. We are being lied to. The hard pressing to green is a money chasing scam by politicians to make them rich in their lifetime. The cost of changing over night is not affordable for normal working citizens. Get a great rebate 7-10,000 for buy a 80,000 dollar car. Who can afford a 80,000 car. People who already have mega dollars. 10-15,000 tax credit for making your house green. Again who can afford a 40,000 upgrade to lower your electric bill? The wealthy that’s who. I make 100k and that is not wealthy today. I can’t afford a 1200.00 car payment or a second mortgage 400.00 a month. We need to do this slower so the wealthy can actually pay for these inventions which will then bring the cost down. These companies need to get paid back for their research and development but not by normal working class citizens. Making us refab our homes by a certain time will only segregate make homes unaffordable to 90% of the country. Global warming is a scam for the wealthy politicians. Look closer and you’ll see it.
Climate change is real AND yes i definitely believe its because of human beings. You would have to be a blind science lliterate fool not to believe the current climate change is man made. Much like flat earthers or not believing gravity exists and to them i say ok go ahead and jump off a roof top why dont you?
yeah while climate change is a natural occurring thing humans have execrated it by thousands of years. a lot of our activity's have negatively impacted the environment like like energy production transportation food production. if none of this changes we will have some really bad consequences soon. i mean we have already hit the point of no return lots of us will see some big changes in our lifetimes and its already started.
It's real and I believe it was caused by humans but at the same time we are now so dependant on the same things that cause climate change such as cars (an electric car is much less damaging to the environment for example but most people don't have one and they are more expensive to buy).
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Climate change is real, and it has probably been significantly accelerated by humans...
But I think it's a good thing, at the moment at least ;p
Even if we ignore the benefits to humanity, industrialisation has raised atmospheric CO2 from around 200ppm to around 450ppm today. This is a good thing for plants, for which most have difficulty surviving below 180ppm, and for which most grow faster and larger up to around 1000ppm.
I think the increased temperature will be a good thing for the life generally too. Hot places are better for life than cold places; rainforests are more biodiverse than tundra.
Similarly, wetter places are better for life than dry places; rainforests are more biodiverse than deserts. A hotter climate means more total rain from evapouration in the water cycle. Ultimately I think more biodiversity and biomass will exist under a warmer climate than our current one.
For the downsides, the relatively fewer species adapted to the extreme cold or that do not change may go extinct, and the water level will rise a meter at most, so some cities may need a short coastal barrier. I'll also need to migrate, I prefer the cold.
Weather may be worse, better, or the same; it could get worse because there will be more thermal energy to dissipate, or it could get better because losing the poles may lead to a lower global temperature gradient from which to create storms.
I think this expectation is borne out by historical data. It has been far hotter with more CO2 than there is today, for example in the Jurassic period, where life was able to grow to far larger sizes than it does today, which also generally indicates a greater ability to support life.
All of this said, there may really be a tipping point like the Malthusians are worried about, that for some reason wasn't an issue historically.
I'm also not saying that this is a sustainable, the rate of increase seems high and I'd be alarmed if it continued for more than a century, but given that we're not outside historical parameters (yes, the carbon we're releasing was once in the air before it was coal/oil), I'm not concerned, and I certainly don't think it's a doomsday scenario.
It's not sustainable economically either, eventually. Oil is actually renewable, but it's produced way slower than we're using it. We should use nuclear, which should last a thousand years, and when solar or fusion finally becomes viable we can use those, or we switch to them earlier if they happen to be cheaper (legitimately economically cheaper in terms of resource costs, not just because you force other people to pay the price for it in subsidies).
Climate change issue is a complex issue. Years ago during my masters in economics I made friends with an atmospheric physicist, he is concerned with climate change.
He was telling me things like the models we have implemented so far are extremely rudimentary. Since the atmosphere is a very complex system, it will be very difficult to establish exactly the causes of something that is basically new. The rest of physics is hyper-studied in comparison, and we are largely ignorant of the rest of physics as well. As far as is known today, it has both natural and man-made causes. Most of it is natural and self-increasing since the largest greenhouse gas is water vapor responsible for a figure ranging from 2/3 to 3/4 for the greenhouse effect.
For the wall there is the problem of industrialization. Then there are greenhouse gases that were already present in the atmosphere. The levels of which have skyrocketed due to human activity: in order of danger carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) and varius fluorinated gases such as chlorofluorocarbons.
The main problem with the expression 'climate change' is that it can mean anything you want it to; it's an imprecise, amorphous concatenation of weasel words, an expression without merit, substance or form. It is just sound, the sound of one hand clapping, as the Buddhists might say.
How about asking a REAL question, like, "According to some within the scientific community, the release of industrial CO2 is causing the planet to warm, and that if this trend continues we could find ourselves in an uncomfortable predicament. Are you at all concerned they may actually have a point, they may actually be right?"
Anyway, no, I'm not worried about 'global warming' (an expression that at least contains a modicum of useful information, unlike 'climate change'). Besides, what would you have us do? Return to living in caves, without electricity? By all means, after you! You be the first, set an example for the rest of us to follow! :)
The question here is are you willing to go back to walking everywhere you go? I don’t mean just automobiles because it is all of the concrete too. Roads, buildings everything that reflects heat or holds heat contributes to global warming.
also there are cycles that are naturally occurring. 10 year, 50 year, 100 year. 1000 year, and so on. the earth has heated and cooled more than once in its life span. Poles have also switched places. It is more than just people but people are the cause of a lot of this.
Not only have meteorologists and climatologists proven 100% that Global Warming is real, but they've literally proven that it is 100% caused by human activities.
I understand a LOT of weather science, but I flip-flopped on climate change several times before I became 100% convinced that the scientists were correct. I tried to prove them wrong years ago, and ended up proving absolutely that they were telling the truth My own calculations ended up agreeing with the super-computer calculations in every detail, so then I knew they weren't lying about it.
Nothing in the world is static, and climate also fluctuates; it's a natural occurrence.
Where humans meanwhile appear to have an accelerating - and harmful (?) effect.
Greed, recklessness, thoughtlessness, consumerism and such are driving us towards a border line where we ourselves -and also nature- can not longer adapt quick enough.
As much as climate change is ''natural'' - ''survival of the fittest'' is natural as well.
Let's see who will be making it.
I won't see it... but some of YOU guys may.
Lord: have mercy :D
https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-cities
Still trying to figure out why the west deliberately kneecapping itself for the sake of... ah climate change is just another BLM movement that certain people will discover its true motives much too late to do anything about.
Bad options. Climate change is not a hoax, and human activity does play a role, but there is definitely a lot of fear mongering and bullshit “science” surrounding this topic. The whole modelling thing is a crock of shit, all the models have been wrong since an inconvenient truth when I started paying attention to this shit. Climate change is being used as a political tool to seize more power
Most climate change is due to human beings. I can't say that the whole climate change is due to humans but 99% is by humans and other are due to natural disasters. Your age is 38 you must know it. See what was the climate wheb you were of 18 years and now. Well I have experienced in my shorr life too. Before in winter the minimum temperature in my area was 10 degree Celsius and now it is 12 degree Celsius. In summer average was 28 degree Celsius now it can go to 32 degree Celsius.
There is quite a lot of evidence that climate change is a cycle that has been happening on earth since the beginning. I'm certain we aren't helping the situation, but I doubt even if we had taken action back in the 80s we would have been able to prevent it, maybe just delay it.
I believe it is happening, but no amount of research I can find or anyone can seem to tell me what percentage is man-made and what is natural. Is it 15% man-made and 85% natural or what is the EXACT break down and the evidence to back it up.
Seems this is a answer science isn't interested in finding out, because if only 20% is man-made that means there is 80% that nothing can be done about.
Not entirely.
While yes, there are more people alive today than have probably ever lived before (world population rarely got above 1 billion) the earth itself emits a lot of gas and pollution in everything from volcanic eruptions to earthquakes.
So while humans are contributing, it's the smallest of the problems out there.
Voted A. If someone thinks that climate change is natural then that person doesn't know how horrible and greedy human beings are.
What I think is some people got their head so far up their ass to believe that was only a hundred years of recorded data or so that they can make the assumption that were causing anything because when I grew up the climate changed four times a year. And even if we are in a split-second we can be wiped out and in a thousand years you'd never even know we were here
I think climate change exists, I think we are partly the cause of it. I also think the effects of it are greatly overblown. I also think we should continue to invest in renewable energy less because of the climate and more because non renewable energy is finite.
It takes an astounding amount of arrogance to think we're responsible for all of the world's problems. As if man kind was really that important. Nothing is permanent, not the climate, not the world, and not us. To think anything else is pure idiocy.
40 years on from when i discovered the impact man was having on our planet and then over this time having seen the results for myself, i really can't believe anyone can still question if its real or not
there's no such thing as climate change
In the bible
When God sends his wrath on the earth
What will people call that Climate Change, Change?
The climate is always changing. Humans may play a small part but climate change is inevitable. We are in an interglacial now, where ice has been melting. But glaciers will return.
Permanent affects by natural means. Some elevated, temporary symptoms by humans. But dont get me wrong I still want some levels of clean energy. I want clean drinking water, air, and food for all.
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