The point is that many among both, Democrats and Republicans, care about truth.
The truth in climate change is that it happens without anything that people do or can do. Science has known for a long time that it is the sun and the Earth orbit that creates climate change in either direction, colder or warmer.
The changing of the term "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" shows that the climate change proponents needed a new term to further cloud their lying explanations, because people were starting to see through what they were doing.
NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in Earth's solar orbitFor more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom.
It was the year 1958, to be precise, when NASA first observed that changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth's axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as "warming" (or "cooling," depending on their agenda). In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet by driving SUVs or eating beef, in other words.
But NASA has thus far failed to set the record straight, and has instead chosen to sit silently back and watch as liberals freak out about the world supposedly ending in 12 years because of too much livestock, or too many plastic straws.
^^^ Excellent article, btw.
Wrong on all counts.
First off to understand climate change you need to open your mind to a few facts.
The rate of change of the climate is very important. If the rate of change is higher than what ecosystems can adapt to we get a lot of ecosystem destruction.
Practically all of us are dependent on earth's ecosystems.
The Earth's sensitivity to CO2 is variable. Depending on where the land masses are located on the earth's surface, the tilt of the earth and the brightness of the sun (the sun is slightly more powerful today than it was in the past)
Humans can absolutely change the climate. Even at home with very limited resources you can set up an experiment to prove that co2 traps heat. Just fill up an aquarium with co2 and have another one filled with air. The co2 aquarium (after being exposed to the sun for a while) will be hotter.
The level of CO2 acts almost like a thermostat, when it is increased, the earth's temperature equilibrium changes, we get a lot more heat trapped in the atmosphere. Since the level of CO2 is so tiny (about 400ppm) it's not difficult for humans to change it.
When you burn a gallon of gas (6.3 pounds you produce 20 pounds of CO2) The reason that a gallon of gas produces so much CO2 is that most of the mass of the c02 molecule comes from the oxygen in the air.
You get similar figures for other fossil fuels.
It's easy for us to burn fossil fuels made up of centuries of plants and other organisms that were eating up co2 in the past in a single year. All it takes for us is lighting it up.
Long story short, NASA has nothing to admit. They're right on climate change, but like any big organization they do make mistakes. There's always going to be someone working for NASA that is wrong and times that NASA does stupid things. But when it comes to climate change they're definitely on the side that is backed by science and facts and nuance.
Climate change is a subject that requires nuance. It requires you to be open to learning about the physical world and the laws of physics that govern it. There always seems to be people that build their arguments on rhetoric and bullshit.
It snowed a lot last year and I'm holding a snow-ball therefore there is no climate change, or how could we affect the earth when it is so big, or it's really cold right now so climate change can't be happening. CO2 is good for plants so more CO2 means increased food output. co2/temperature or both in the past was/were higher so climate change is not a big deal.
These are but a few of an endless pool of stupid non arguments against climate change. I'll debunk these quickly.
While weather is unpredictable a hotter climate can produce more rainfall, and where the temperature is low enough more snowfall, especially in the winter. The changing climate can also change where the snowfall/rain tends to fall and the amount. Increased rainfall in certain areas may not match increased precipitation causing droughts in some areas or it may surpass it causing floods.
We can easily affect the earth, especially its climate. The ppm of co2 in the atmosphere is increasing, the earth's ecosystems, oceans and rocks can't absorb all the co2 we put out and that's why it gets slightly higher every year.
Cold winters don't disprove climate change. Climate change is about where the global thermostat is moving towards. It's more likely there will be more hot temperature records broken than cold, and that there will be more hotter days but that doesn't mean that winters are going to go away, there will still be cold days. Climate change affects different parts of the world unevenly, I believe that the polar regions get the greatest differences.
Plants would benefit from more co2 but not necessarily the heat stress that the added co2 would bring, most crops will probably produce less food due to the heat stress, however there may be more growing days in some regions of the world and maybe more land where it used to be too cold to farm. The extra co2 in the air won't help a plant grow if the extra evaporation turns the area it used to grow into a desert.
The earth is more sensitive to co2 now then it was in the past. The rate of change in the earth's climates is the cause of the sixth mass extinction. If the temperature became 6 degrees higher but it took a billion years life would adapt to it. If that happens over 200 years most complex life is likely to die off.
My guess is that I'll only get trolled for posting this. The response is likely to be something conspiratorial, like environmentalists are trying to get rich off government grants or carbon taxes, or I'm going to get bombarded with a link to an already debunked piece of pseudo-science.
There is a profit motive behind all of this climate change denial. The fossil fuel industry gets to make a little bit more money. This has happened before with cigarette smoking and cancer. The industry was well aware of what cigarettes cost but instead of letting people chose whether to smoke or not knowing all the facts they chose to make an extra buck and in the meantime there was a debate on whether cigarettes where actually bad for you.
The same sell-outs that produced pseudo-science on behalf of the tobacco industry are now doing it on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.
I don't understand why people go along with it. I wish more people where competent enough to see they're being played. I'm not very smart but I like chemistry and physics and knowing how the world works enough that I can legitimately not even understand the other point of view here.
In fact it'd be more difficult for me to prove that cigarettes cause cancer then that co2 causes global warming yet people accept the first truth and reject the latter.
Now to get back on topic. I'm all for a Green New Deal. I'm not going to comment on it before I get a good grasp of what it entails.
