Darwoth wrote:I'm gonna insult you while providing no proof of anything of my own lel top keks shrekt
THANKS FOR PROVING MY POINT GG NO RE - You just regurgitated nothing but ad hominem attacks and didn't even say anything of substance just "oh your wrong, big stupid head" once again going back to my point that political discussion is no longer fact or theory based. It's goes deep into primal urges like fight or flight.
yeah dawg, climate change is so fake man check out those nasa.gov satellites with all those fake readings. Here I'll do a quick summary for you of what 99% of people who are smarter then both of us believe with a firm conviction. See the scientific method requires proof of concept. You don't publish without having tested your hypothesis. This is basic science 101. Liberals can't even organize a rigged election they rigged you really think there is some massive conspiracy theory with 99% of the worlds highest IQ in on the joke?
Warning - some copy paste here and there. Grammar and Spelling is **** and I'm well aware, not attempting to write a book report here on my day off drinking all day (which i never usually do so)
The Earth's climate has changed throughout history, I'm not denying that. That's a favorite fox news line " Oh the climate naturally goes through these cycles blah blah" Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.
But uh oh, looks like if you check on some actual facts Carbon Dioxide is the highest it has ever been. Ever. Period. Since Carbon dating and other scientific methods came about. That is hundreds of years.
Since able to be recorded - it's never exceeded 300 parts per million. It's currently sitting at 400. Have you ever sat behind a nasty diesel black smoke truck? Watch how much it spits out while you are just waiting on a redlight with him. Multiply it by millions and millions of cars. This is but one example of very man. Earth is literally a giant fish tank with an enclosed atmosphere - is it really so far fetched to imagine we are doing this harm? If you slowly poured bleach in a fishtank, or vacuum sealed it and slowly replaced the oxygen with CO, what eventually would happen? Is this concept really that hard for you?
Ok let's continue.
The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.
Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1
Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate. The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2 Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response. The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives. This is the most common misconception the right uses to deny Climate Change.
Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal. 99% of the worlds scientists, after years of data and research are not working together for some giant liberal conspiracy
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1
Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.
The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2 Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.
Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming. Woops! There goes the usual "it is a natural ebb and flow" defense!
And of course this changes heat...
The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere!!!!!1 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year — from January through September, with the exception of June — were the warmest on record for those respective months.
On to water...
The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. This may not seem to much at first glance, but the volume of all water in gallons in the ocean would be about 332.5 million cubic miles which equals more than 1.1 TRILLION GALLONS. Imagine trying to warm that up in a giant pot on a celestial stove. Not easy. The human mind can barely comprehend the vastness of numbers like that. Things like Coral Polyps making up our reefs are extremely sensitive to the most minute changes in temperature which is what is causing the mass bleach outs all over the globe. Chemical waste/Fertilizer runoff is just the cherry on top.
Tiny ocean plants – called phytoplankton – that live near the water's surface and drift with the currents and live and die in massive blooms on a massive scale are also affected. A byproduct of photosynthesis is oxygen. Scientists believe that phytoplankton contribute between 50 to 85 percent of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. Thousands of miles of growth decline has been observed in key areas where they bloom, and temperature changes is the problem.
Growing up in Florida, I had my divers license when i was very young as my dad was an accomplished diver at one point. This is painfully obvious in the florida keys for example. Vibrant lush reefs i used to visit are a sad, pale, bleached disgrace to their former memory. Add on top of that what was once clear see through water, and take a look today. Runoff from the sugar plantations in the Everglades (another massive massive unregulated tragedy) has turned the water into a horrible color when the tides flow right. Add on top idiots like Republican Governor Rick Scott and his massive crusade against the EPA and chemical waste over the years removing regulation after regulation and now Florida is in big, big trouble. Hilariously, last year Florida had a "toxic pea soup" bloom all over as well as red tide, and like a month after Rick Scott passed all these anti regulation laws to make it even easier to destroy/pollute Florida's environment. What a ***** joke.
It truly makes me sad future generations will not get to enjoy the things I have, and the same goes for your generation Darwoth - btw, are you a baby boomer? you seemed to get pretty triggered about that but you know im ***** right. They are greedy, selfish ***** who would drive the country into the ground as long as they got what they wanted. Prove me wrong - you can't. But I'm not like the right - I don't blindly label and entire group - I know there are decent, educated republicans. My father is one. But in his old age watching him be poisoned by fox news is truly making me angry. Any fringe idea fox has pushed out, he has tried to bring it up to me, stupid **** like when some picture of a guy who looked like Bernie was in a nice Audi or something, and it wasn't even him. Yet the internets broke from the right clamouring they were right all along, he was stealing their money and other dumb ****.
Another example would be the whole "three house Bernie is rich and stole your money" BS the right spilled all over social media. I still see references to it this day. Usually if i click on their comment and check the profile is an aging man/woman "good old boy" who is literally a drooling mouthpiece for fox news.
Senators have a home state where they are from - 1 house. Senators also have to spend extended time in DC as well. 2nd apartment. Family relative of his wife dies and leaves a house to her and suddenly the right loses their minds when basic **** like having somewhere to stay in Vermont and DC is beyond their comprehension. Also - ***** Hillary and the DNC elite. Seriously. Or Obama. It's in the past. How many months into Trump's presidency before I stop seeing all the blame heaped on them (and for some things they deserved - Hillary was shoved down our throats, and was probably the only candidate in history who could lose to a mouth breathing ingrate like Trump. Obama getting Nobel Peace while bombing more then anyone etc etc and all the Muslim handholding was just as bad. Let it go. It's over. I've personally seen hanging obama dummies multiple times driving around where I'm from right after Obama won. Their is pics all over the internet - BUT OMG KATHY GRIFFON THE OUTRAGE. ( she is an idiot btw)
Have you seen recent pictures of the Great Barrier Reef? It's a giant bleached out mess. The GBR itself is 500,000 years old, but it hasn't always looked as it does today. Reefs on Australia's continental shelf have taken on many forms, depending on the sea level, and the current formation is about 6,000 to 8,000 years old. That is three zeros. After expanding to such a massive size in SIX THOUSAND PLUS YEARS of not completely dying out, miles and miles of the GBR is bleached out with no hope of returning except from the last few remnants of the reef that is in slightly deeper water and not currently as stricken from the heat and chemical changes in the water. You are looking at thousands of more years for it to be able to slowly creep back out to it's vast former glory. Old reef dies and the new ones grow on top of it and it slowly spreads out. Rippity Rip rip.
-Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century. Double! Take a trip to Miami, they have to have a massive pump system now to hold the water at bay. Nothing natural about 10-20 years equaling over a freaking CENTURY.
-Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.
-Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.
-We are destroying rain forests faster then it can be replenished. Don't buy palm oil. Especially just because it is cheaper. Just don't.
-The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events
-Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent. This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about TWO BILLION tons per year.
It goes on and on, holy **** look at that. I'm done.
OH BTW, sources incoming - not fringe media sites, nor politically biased ones ( at least they try to be everyone is human) Alot of this references actual published
Enjoy.
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