I am stating that fact because scientists, especially on the area of climate, work with and support the fact that climate change is real. I shouldn’t have to explain every argument that I know you will contest with frequently debunked theories, but I guess it is necessary. The earth is hotter than it has been in the last ten thousand years, the last 3 years have been the hottest on human record, acidity of the ocean’s has increased 30% since the Industrial Revolution. The reason it is not the sun’s change in radiation is due to the fact that during the 1800s, our heating increased dramatically faster than usual at the same time we expanded the use of fossil fuels to unprecedented amounts. Just as that use was unprecedented, unprecedented heat change coincided. Earth orbiting satellites have seen the increases in temperatures since the 60s and it’s been nothing but up, nearly at 1.5 C what it was before. Scientists have demonstrated the heat-trapping capacity of carbon dioxide and that the quantities of it increasing in the atmosphere coincides with said temperature increase. The polar ice caps are at their lowest in centuries, and from details as minute as tree-ring study, we have noticed unprecedented heat changes across the earth. It’s human caused, and this is a tiny fraction of the surface-level proof.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
So essentially you're just restating the very fallacious argument you made, in different words but with the same logical hurdles? If you can't argue reasonably, don't embarrass your cause. But anyway, let's discuss your rapid "heating" that happened after the Industrial Revolution. It just so happens that climatologists have estimated there was a "Little Ice Age" or an abnormally COOL period from AD 900 to the mid 19th century. We're not getting warmer because of fossil fuels but because we are emerging from an abnormal period of cold temperatures back into the "normal range" in respect to the meteorological history of our planet...
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
The warming trends of the past before the little ice age were not NEARLY as high as the ones we currently have. It was a small dip, what we have is a sudden spike.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
And how can you deduce that? Are there in detail records about ancient weather cycles? Or is this returning to the very fallacious reasoning I rebuffed at the start of this debate? Even if you had tangible data about the distant past, the warming trends would "not [be] NEARLY as high" because the earth was already considerably warmer than it is now, and how do we not know the warming trends weren't this high at the start of that period of normality that came before the Little Ice Age? Do you honestly know what you're talking about, or this what CNN has told you?
@9CJ6CB64mos4MO
Because we literally mapped the warming trends from those times. Look up “Mini Ice Age Climate Change Map”. The dipping effects were a minuscule amount in comparison to a massive spike over the last 200 years.
@RebelScum76Constitution4mos4MO
You still never answered Patriot #1776's question – do we have detailed records of weather before AD 900? As far as I know, the basic modern thermometer hadn't even been INVENTED yet!
