The problem is my kids and grandkids don't have a historical reference they believe what they're being told every day. I believe the climate is changing because science shows CO2 levels increasing. I don't believe the alarmist fear claims that the world will end.
I don't think anyone sensible is claiming "the world will end".
But, most people who are up on the research understand that our current way of life will probably undergo substantial modification because of climate change.
How that modification happens, and the extent of it, are pretty much up to us. Personally, I think its better that we voluntarily undertake changes in order to avoid the worst impacts, rather than continuing as is and being subject to catastrophic climate change and then having the modifications forced upon us.
Most of the data we see is CO2 levels increasing over the last several hundred years which is a drop in a bucket compared to the geological record from the ice cores and fossils.
Ice cores, which go back about 400,00 years, show CO2 concentrations of 180 to 300 parts per million. The forecast concentration for this year is 425 parts per million.
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The fossil record shows the last time CO2 concentrations were this high was about 4-5 million years ago, when average surface temperatures were 2.5-4 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average (or about 1.5-3 degrees warmer than now).
There is a reason why Greenland was named Greenland.
Yes, there was. That reason was marketing.
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Erik The Red, an Icelandic murderer who was exiled to the island. He called it “Greenland” in hopes that the name would attract settlers. But according to scientists, Greenland was actually quite green more than 2.5 million years ago."
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I am not sure when mammals were first on the earth
About 225 million years ago.
but the reason we are here today is because they adapted.
SOME adapted. The overwhelming number of mammal species that have diversified over that period have subsequently died. Want to know what killed large numbers of those species off? - Sudden climactic shifts.
Today men better adapt by selling their beachfront properties or building some dikes.
Sell their houses to who exactly? Aquaman?
I do believe man is contributing to the CO2 rise ... It's all due to fossil fuels.
That's right, it
is due to fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels adds gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere that wouldn't otherwise be there.
but when you read today's science you aren't pointed to the deep carbon cycle of Mother Earth.
That's because we're WAY outside of the norms of the "deep carbon cycle of Mother Earth". At least as far as the last four or five million years goes.
