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RE: Is Climate Change Real? The Definitive Answer, YES !!
I never adhered to the "global warming", now retagged "climate change" swindle. CO2 is highly beneficial to plants, it is their food! Plants can definitely use some extra CO2, given the deforestation and destruction of ecosystems by man.
Exactly. The increase in global CO2 levels is real. It is being measured. What is also being measured is the positive impacts that the small CO2 increases to date are having on plant life. It is a partial counter balance to deforestation and destruction of ecosystems.
If you want to go down a path of arguing we should be putting more money into protecting diverse ecosystems, I am on board with that.
Just not on board with any program or project that starts with the assumption that CO2 is a pollutant. Everything after that point is a waste of time and money. CO2 is NOT A POLLUTANT.
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CO2 levels have been fluctuating way before humankind existed. "Climate change" has been fluctuating for the whole of Earth's existence. These are all cyclical events that are linked to solar activity, they don't worry me one bit. It's funny how they shifted from "global warming" to the notion of "climate change". WTH does that mean? Absolutely NOTHING. Climate is changing all the time! Without climate change, we wouldn't have seasons. They make it sound like a bad disease. Utter nonsense.
Agree, up to the point about climate change and seasons.
Seasons are the result of earth rotating on its axis about the sun, and taking a year to make the cycle around the sun. Seasons is weather. Climate change occurs over millenia.
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What I meant is, seasons experience ups and downs too. Some years they reach temperature highs (or lows), and the next years they can reach the opposite. Call it mini-climate change.
This is exactly true. And one point I want to make is that we haven't studied for long enough to have determined whether or not we are in a trough as far as temperatures are concerned.
The other thing is, Solar activity plays a huge role in atmosphere. In fact, it is the #1 driver of our climate. There are a number of scientists declaring that the sun appears to be going into a period of hibernation, which would cause the atmosphere of earth to cool to a large degree. There was a period in fairly recent history when the River Thames was frozen. And there are a number of people who are of the opinion that the Delaware River was frozen over as depicted in the famous painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze called "Washington Crossing the Delaware".
I've heard one solar scientist stating that as the sun gets more quiet, the earth will experience more volcanoes and earthquakes. As the planet begins to cool it's going to contract, putting pressure on everything under the crust resulting in: earthquakes and lava flows like popped pimples.