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Debbie asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 2 years ago

What EXACTLY is climate change?

Hi, I hear about climate change on TV all the time, but, I don't understand what it is.

1. Is it the earth becoming hot by the sun?

2. Why is climate change so important?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Well look in the 1990 UN_IPCC report where they define Climate Change: "Climate Change is a change in the climate."

    Ha! Ha! Don't believe me, look it up. But your question is a good one. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change should be scientifically or legally defined before we throw more money at it.

    Quote by Tom McElmurry, meteorologist, former tornado forecaster in Severe Weather Service: “Governmental officials are currently casting trillions down huge rat hole to solve a problem which doesn’t exist....Packs of rats wait in that [rat] hole to reap trillions coming down it to fill advocates pockets....The money we are about to spend on drastically reducing carbon dioxide will line the pockets of the environmentalists....some politicians are standing in line to fill their pockets with kick back money for large grants to the environmental experts....In case you haven’t noticed, it is an expanding profit-making industry, growing in proportion to the horror warnings by government officials and former vice-presidents.”

    You see, undefined Climate Change is easier to scare people with. It is like the Bogie Man. Everyone is scared of it, but no one has seen it. The longer we let these evil people not define it, the easier it is for them to pick our pockets and take away our liberties.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Important as a useful tool for big government.

    Thats why they call it "climate change" when the real target is American middle class as Gore and the Kennedy brothers pointed out on national TV.

    Question : do you ever see any of the scientists who are called "deniers" on TV?

  • 2 years ago

    Too much information will only confuse. All you need to know is:

    1. It is happening;

    2. It will be bad;

    3. Give us your money and we will stop it for you.

  • 2 years ago

    The idiots on the left would have you believe that we are affecting the climate so much that the polar ice caps are melting, oceans are rising and will flood half the planet. The truth is, we are exiting an ice age. Naturally. Not caused by anything mankind is doing. This was recently confirmed when a mathematician found the math used in the climate change models were all wrong for the last 40+ years. The climate is going from an ice age to a temperate age. This USED to be taught in schools in the 70s.

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Climate change is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time.

    Is it the earth becoming hot by the sun?

    No, the amount of energy the earth receives from the sun is relatively stable. The increase of greenhouse gasses cause more of that energy to warm the earth. This warming in turn will cause climates to change.

    Why is climate change so important?

    As climates change a lot of people will be negatively affected and those people should not be forced to pay the cost of these changes when the root cause is people not disposing of the waste products in a responsible manner.

    It seems that it is economically feasable to inject particles into the stratosphere that cool the earth and if a country determines it is getting to warm, they could try to cool their country (and thus the earth) a few degrees. This should of course not be allowed either. So by showing responsibility now, we could avoid a lot of international problems in the future. Otherwise you get this childish debate, you made it warmer and didn't care, but I like it cooler, so why should I care.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Climate change is the biggest fraud perpetrated on mankind in history. The two goals are to control all human behavior and separate you from your money.

  • 2 years ago

    A hard to prove principle that humans are affecting the weather.

  • shroud
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    it is the heating up of the earth, it is believed the earth has had at least 3 ice ages and in between them is a time of high temperatures,

    there is no doubt we are starting to warm-up after our last ice age

    the doubt is how much or if people maybe causing the earth to heat up faster

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