Climate Change
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- nyker
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Climate Change
TNF thread got me thinking...
- Dave B
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Re: Climate Change
Yes, the climate can change naturally.
Yes, human activities are directly responsible for the current unprecedented rate of warming.
Yes, human activities are directly responsible for the current unprecedented rate of warming.
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Re: Climate Change
1 and 2.
- myfeetrock
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Re: Climate Change
Climate change is real. The climate has been changing for 4 billion years. I don't care what anyone says, not even a thousand years of recorded history can without a doubt confirm any educated guess. Before you proceed, there's a difference between a guess, and proven facts.
- Dave B
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Re: Climate Change
NASA disagrees:myfeetrock wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 1:42 pm Climate change is real. The climate has been changing for 4 billion years. I don't care what anyone says, not even a thousand years of recorded history can without a doubt confirm any educated guess. Before you proceed, there's a difference between a guess, and proven facts.
The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95% probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over millennia.1
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- myfeetrock
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Re: Climate Change
95%.Not 100% without a doubt. To each his own. We don't have to share the same views.
- prairiechicken
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Re: Climate Change
I don't think you understand statistics, or science in general. Nothing can be 100% without a doubt. Nothing.myfeetrock wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:08 pm 95%.Not 100% without a doubt. To each his own. We don't have to share the same views.
- montanahiker
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Re: Climate Change
So Mad Max or three versions of "nothing to see here"?
Can you tell a person's political views by how they write a poll? I think you can.
Can you tell a person's political views by how they write a poll? I think you can.
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Re: Climate Change
That's sort of where I land. I think there is natural fluctuation in the climate, and this is borne out to some extent by the historically fluctuating levels of CO2 in the atmoshere. But I think that man-caused pollution, etc. aggravates the fluctuation to our detriment, significantly. Potentiation?
Fwiw, I find the ice core data compelling, hard to argue against 800,000 years of data. Finally, just common sense: We can pump tons of industrial waste into the atmoshere for almost 200 years (or whenever the industrial revolution truly kicked off) with absolutely no consequences? None? Hmm....hard to wrap my head around that.
Just my opinions.
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Re: Climate Change
releasing ~1.5 trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere has changed things undoubtedly
- SchralpTheGnar
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Re: Climate Change
I’m not sure what to think, or what to do
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