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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I agree with that MUCH. If that were the total EXTENT of it, there would be NO need for me to say anything more about the subject.......and maybe people would like to continue to bathe in no-nothing-ism. If the earth had no people or those people had YET to invent the internal combustion engine or build factories without smog scrubbers, that would be the end of the story. I invite anyone, anyone to look at a graph of world population.....you immediately see the problem (I believe it is 14 trillion people---whatever). The point is the graph rapidly bends upward. So, then more people means more CO2 (and other pollutants) which in the last 15 years have caused the WHOLE EARTH to HEAT up too much. The mechanism is the heat bounces back from the upper atmosphere from the layer formed by the CO2. The excess CO2 also goes into the oceans where it has killed coral - which is a FACT, NOT MY OPINION. It has worldwide glaciers to melt BIG TIME. Again, a fact, not my imagination. Right here in Florida we are setting ALL-TIME HEAT records. Scientists talk about animal species moving north in the northern hemisphere (and people also). And animals species going extinct at record numbers. I don't spend my whole day reading scientific journals, yet it is basically everywhere on the news and even hard to avoid.
.....I actually believe that those who ARE not AWARE of these items discussed above - must actively be avoiding mainstream newspapers and mainstream TV. Or maybe they are aware and tricking themselves? I can't say which would be worse?
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All these claims are easily dismissed with government data at Weather Club meetings. But back to coral - which love warm and CO2 rich waters. This Florida Keys coral image shows that corals (and coral reefs) grew faster millions of years ago when temperatures and CO2 were much higher. In fact, ancient coral reefs are more than a mile thick around the Great Barrier Reef. Corals use CO2 to create calcite (calcium carbonate) to build their hard skeletons (coral reefs). CO2 is food on land and in the waters. Even when CO2 levels were more than 15 times greater than today - the oceans NEVER turned acidic. Enjoy global warming and celebrate increasing CO2.