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Do I accept the premise that men affect the climate -- I imagine to some extent we do. Is spending trillions of US dollars while other polluters do nothing to avoid a 1 degree temperature increase in the next hundred years a wise use of $$? Probably not. By the way, everyday, all around the world, the world experiences variances in temperature of more that 1 degree, it's normal as night and day. Men should use that money and their brainpower to adapt to the environment, much as we have since time began...
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CSM it has nothing to do with temperature variations in different places. now I can go into a scientific explanation or I can give you something easier to understand. Quite frankly I do not have the time for the scientific explanation so I will go with this instead.
here is the situation. You are driving and coolant is leaking out of your radiator . You notice the water temp indicator rising. The cars electronics flash its warnings but you keep driving and driving and driving till the engine dies. Why did it happen. It happened because you allowed the engine to overheat to the point that it failed, seized up, threw rods and all kinds of damage. It possible got hot enough to set the vehicle on fire.
All of the above happened because you took no action to stop the accumulation of heat in the engine of your vehicle. That is exactly what is happening now to the Earth. The Earth is accumulating heat as a result of man made greenhouse gases along with the Earth's lower albedo due to the loss of ice at the poles, the loss of glaciers on land and snow due to a warming planet. Ice and snow (high albedo effect) reflect the energy from the sun back out into space whereas the land and oceans absorb that energy (low albedo effect).
Along with other greenhouse gases, CO2 traps heat radiating from the planet’s surface that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planet’s atmosphere to warm steadily, which unleashes a cascade of weather impacts, including episodes of extreme heat, drought and wildfire activity, as well as heavier precipitation, flooding and tropical storm activity. Rising CO2 also impacts the amount of oxygen especially in aquatic environments. As the water warms the ability to hold oxygen reduces and that impacts all aquatic life.
The problem here CSM is if we were to stop today the problem would still be with us tomorrow ,next month, next year, next century and for thousands and thousands of years into the future.
CSM this is a survival issue for every species that occupies this place we call Earth.
here is the situation. You are driving and coolant is leaking out of your radiator . You notice the water temp indicator rising. The cars electronics flash its warnings but you keep driving and driving and driving till the engine dies. Why did it happen. It happened because you allowed the engine to overheat to the point that it failed, seized up, threw rods and all kinds of damage. It possible got hot enough to set the vehicle on fire.
All of the above happened because you took no action to stop the accumulation of heat in the engine of your vehicle. That is exactly what is happening now to the Earth. The Earth is accumulating heat as a result of man made greenhouse gases along with the Earth's lower albedo due to the loss of ice at the poles, the loss of glaciers on land and snow due to a warming planet. Ice and snow (high albedo effect) reflect the energy from the sun back out into space whereas the land and oceans absorb that energy (low albedo effect).
Along with other greenhouse gases, CO2 traps heat radiating from the planet’s surface that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planet’s atmosphere to warm steadily, which unleashes a cascade of weather impacts, including episodes of extreme heat, drought and wildfire activity, as well as heavier precipitation, flooding and tropical storm activity. Rising CO2 also impacts the amount of oxygen especially in aquatic environments. As the water warms the ability to hold oxygen reduces and that impacts all aquatic life.
The problem here CSM is if we were to stop today the problem would still be with us tomorrow ,next month, next year, next century and for thousands and thousands of years into the future.
CSM this is a survival issue for every species that occupies this place we call Earth.
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CSM Chuck Stafford
It's not existential if all the countries don't feel it is. Men have always had the innate ability to adapt -- this is the better ROI
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