2023-07-17 at 4:13 AM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
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MYTH 1. THE EARTH’S CLIMATE HAS ALWAYS CHANGED
Over the course of the Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, the climate has changed a lot. This is true. But the rapid warming we’re seeing now can't be explained by natural cycles of warming and cooling. The kind of changes that would normally happen over hundreds of thousands of years are happening in decades.
Global temperatures are now at their highest since records began. In fact, 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have all taken place since 2001.
This much faster warming corresponds with levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which have been increasing since the industrial revolution. So, when people talk about climate change today, they mean anthropogenic (man-made) climate change. This is the warming of Earth’s average temperature as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas to produce energy to fuel our homes and transport and cutting down trees to produce the food we eat.
2023-07-17 at 4:31 AM UTC
If been in NYC in the summer and early fall
Really hot, humid, people are understandably dicks except weekends in Time Square Was.. clubs were hopping. 90 plus degrees at midnight and humid
Bars expensive af.
2023-07-17 at 11:17 AM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
MYTH 2. PLANTS NEED CARBON DIOXIDE
Plants do need carbon dioxide (CO2) to live. Plants and forests remove and store away huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. But the problem is, there’s only so much carbon dioxide they can absorb and this amount is getting less, as more and more forests are cut down across the world, largely to produce our food.
Let’s be clear, CO2 itself does not cause problems. It's part of the natural global ecosystem. The problem is the quantity of CO2 that’s being produced by us as humans; there hasn’t been this level of CO2 in the atmosphere for 800,000 years.
2023-07-17 at 12:04 PM UTC
Myth 3
The idea that humans are important to the continuation of life on Earth...quite the opposite is true, their eradication would be wholly beneficial to life on earth. Their demise will be the best thing to happen to Earth since they showed up.
Do your part and burn more fossil fuels.
2023-07-17 at 12:12 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
MYTH 3. GLOBAL WARMING ISN'T REAL AS IT'S STILL COLD
Global warming is causing the Earth’s average surface temperature to increase. This is not only making heatwaves and droughts more likely but it’s also causing changes to our natural climate systems. These changes are making extreme weather events more likely and more severe. For example, hurricanes and storms are becoming more intense, moving slower and taking longer to die down.
2023-07-17 at 12:22 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
MYTH 4. CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FUTURE PROBLEM
We’re already seeing the devastating effects of climate change on global food supplies, increasing migration, conflict, disease and global instability, and this will only get worse if we don’t act now. Man-made climate change is the biggest environmental crisis of our time.
2023-07-17 at 12:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe
Jiggaboo_Johnson proved this is not true. 90% of the studies at the time predicted the warming trends we experience today.
90% of the population used to think the Earth was the center of the solar system/universe...that worked out well for them didn't it.
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2023-07-17 at 12:41 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
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Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
A coward doesn't need a shield dumbo..a warrior uses a shield
A coward runs away or curls up in a ball on the floor.
Jiggaboo_Johnson, internet warrior.
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