What is climate change?

It's when the Earth gets hotter and hotter. So, other stuff is affected by that. Like, melting glaciers, for example.

We can't do anything about the Earth's natural warming, but we can change the fact that we are making the Earth warm up even faster than it would without our activity. So, for example, we could produce less carbon emissions, like from cars and factories. It took tens of thousands of years for the Earth to warm up to the temperature it was in 1850, without man's activity. Today, a mere 167 years later, the Earth has warmed up many times faster, due to man's activities, than it would have if man did not do what it did.

Man is fvcking up the planet, and man does not care. Man would rather die to get money than live.

a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels. Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as global warming.

I believe it is made up for liberals to feel good about themselves. In 2015 the Great Lakes of Michigan had the most surface ice freeze in 30 years. In 1996 Lake Superior had a surface ice freeze of 100%. But if you use facts like colder than normal winters the media won't like that. This winter in Southern California has had colder than normal temperatures and lots of snow in Big Bear. If a few large volcanos erupt the world will quickly go into a cooling trend and Al Gore, New World Order, and Agenda 21 losers will freak out. The government/NWO makes up global warming. Bottom line is liberals suck and seem to be brain damaged. These made up fake news stories have been an arm of the CIA for many decades. The CIA is embedded in the mainstream news. Google that! They use the news to condition Americans into believing their agenda.

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2015/02/rec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbir...

If you grew up in Michigan and attended Michigan schools you can see the lies and fakes news the government makes up 1000 miles away.

a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.

People seem to forget that most people like it warmer, and if more countries were cooler - we would be burning more oil just to keep warm, and using more fossil fuels than we do at the moment.

A change in the climate - as in warmer, colder , drier , wetter. Well documented for the historic past including its effects on various civilizations, evidence throughout earth's history for major changes that affected whole ecologies.

Present day change includes rising temperatures and a shift in precipitation patterns, induced by the huge increase in atmospheric CO2 caused by humans burning fossil fuels at about a million times the rate they were deposited in long-term storage.

The climates have always changed. It never remains the same so what would be the best thing to blame on humans if you want to push a political agenda? The answer is to blame humans on something that was going to happen anyway. That way, no matter what you can blame our CO2 emissions on whatever the climate does. The left has been at war with capitalism and freedom for hundreds of years. They generally need to lie and exaggerate to get people to follow their anti-human agenda but there seems to be a large percentage of the population that are eager to listen to the gloom and doom. These doomsday cultists want desperately for you to believe that if our CO2 emissions cause the temperature to rise a degree or two, this is justification to enact their agenda, to tax and redistribute. That is what it is all about. The minor changes in our climate are just the excuse they use.

I come back a few hours later and see the typical rants from the non-scientists, Lin and Virtual who are part of the doomsday cult I was referring to. As a geologist, I am well aware of previous changes in climate. The changes we have had in the last hundred years are minuscule by comparison. The ignorance and arrogance of these alarmists needs to be exposed. Ocean acidification is another lie that engage in. The ocean is alkaline and has buffers to keep it that way. Our CO2 emissions absorbed into the ocean represent about one part per 200 parts already there. The ocean doesn't just hold it however. It precipitates out excess not to mention reef formation and precipitation of carbonaceous skeletons. To someone who hasn't informed themselves, acidification sounds really scary. It is more pseudo-science from wacko leftists.

We emit pollution by burning stuff for electricity or to move a car and it is warming the planet as it traps heat from the sun

Wow your not asking much are you,

I am not going to go into the convoluted physics behind climate change and the likelihood of it happening, or whether it would be catastrophic, dangerous, minimal or beneficial, if it happens.

Suffice to say there is not really any chance we can do anything about it.

If in extremely unlikely case that the Paris climate treaty will be fulfilled completely by every country who signed on to it, it will cost around $13 to 15 trillion, for a reduction in 0.17 degrees C.

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