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3% of 0.04% doesn't sound like much but when a system is delicately balanced, a seemingly minuscule addition can still have a very significant and cumulative effect, especially if it occurs quickly.
The 0.04% total includes a 40-50% rise (from pre-industrial levels) caused entirely by us.
I'm aware that CO2 levels have fluctuated (and been much higher) over the centuries, but this recent rise seems to be happening a lot more quickly than happens naturally. I think, in terms of upsetting the scales, the concentration may be less significant than the rate of change of concentration. Only time will tell, I guess.
The grain of sand / bridge analogy is amusing but it's a bit like denying antibiotics to someone infected by a nasty strain of bacteria because they're so tiny.
I'm open to arguments from both sides by people with relevant qualifications, research and experience, but still think caution in the use of fossil fuels is wise and very possibly necessary.
Meanwhile Alan Jones should stick to vocations at which he excels such as racism, misogyny and taking cash for comment. Meow!
Yes it is impressive that so many people deny climate change just because they don't like it.
Often the consipiracy theory is more interesting than the mainstream one.
Mybe being a contrarian youtuber is more rewarding than being "mainstream"
Last sunday I made a trip to Stelvio pass, the glacier that used to be there 10 years ago is completely goneClimate change - Wikipedia
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Maybe is just natural fuctuations, maybe our lifespan is too short...
What is the question?We are still waiting for an answer.
Hi frugi,3% of 0.04% doesn't sound like much but when a system is delicately balanced, a seemingly minuscule addition can still have a very significant and cumulative effect, especially if it occurs quickly.
Hi frugi,
I wonder how many climate scientists would turn their noses up at homeopathy on the grounds that such insignificant quantities of 'medicine' can't possibly have any effect on the human body. These same people seem quite happy to apply the same homeopathic principle to the climate and then, on the strength of it, make unfounded allegations that it causes wild fires, floods, hurricanes and glacier melts etc.
To support your claim that the quantities are not important and that it's rate of change of CO2 concentration that's causing climate change - you'll need to provide some evidence. There's none that I've seen that's based on the scientist method*. That got thrown out of the window when it comes to climate change and, needless to say, Covid. In its place, we're given GIGO computer models of the sort that Prof. Neil Ferguson gave us at the start of the pandemic. They are all less than useless. To impose poverty and misery upon millions of people on the strength of such models from scientists who, often as not, are funded by those who stand to benefit from climate change - is as insane as it is corrupt.
Man made climate change IS the conspiracy!
Tim.
* Hypothesis > method > experiment > results > conclusion > peer review / debate / reproduction of results etc.
The Cruelty of the Scientific Method
What is the question?
Is everything a conspiracy? I think no.
Is the majority of scientits being corrupted? I think no.
Of course scientists are paid to do research, with your logic every scientific theory is fake.
I am graduated in chemistry so I consider myself a scientist, I am not paid neither to believe neither to deny climate change.
According to my education and my observations it makes perfect sense.
100% agree on this point.Forget global warming, climate change for a second. We all know that pollution is a massive issue, so instead of arguing among ourselves , why are we not sticking it to China and India where pollution is orders of magnitude higher than in the West?
Matt,Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Matt,. . . It explores various aspects of the issue, including melting ice caps, depletion of natural resources, and other environmental problems, and calls for coordinated efforts to combat climate change
Matt,Tim,
I've just finished reading a couple of articles, but neither provided any concrete research links to back the author's perspective or counter the prevailing climate change dialogue.