[kendi]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Agreed. Over the centuries planets cools and warms and now we are apparently in a warming cycle.

How much is man made is a question. We should do our best to use resources as efficiently as possible in any case.

I was on a glacier in Canada last year and the tour guide said we are still in the ice age, but at the very end. Meaning the climate is warming. Didn't need him to tell me that its normal for the climate to change though. As you indicate above, its a natural phenomenon.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Bucco

From NASA


“Global warming” refers to the long-term warming of the planet. Global temperature shows a well-documented rise since the early 20th century and most notably since the late 1970s. Worldwide, since 1880 the average surface temperature has risen about 1 °C (about 2 °F), relative to the mid-20th-century baseline (of 1951-1980). This is on top of about an additional 0.15 °C of warming from between 1750 and 1880.

“Climate change” encompasses global warming, but refers to the broader range of changes that are happening to our planet. These include rising sea levels; shrinking mountain glaciers; accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic; and shifts in flower/plant blooming times. These are all consequences of the warming, which is caused mainly by people burning fossil fuels and putting out heat-trapping gases into the air. The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are sometimes used interchangeably, but strictly they refer to slightly different things.“

What’s the difference between climate change and global warming? – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

No cherry picking allowed in real climate science. If you look at the past 2000 years of temp data, you see that picking a start point in the middle of the little ice age (1400 to 1800) you get only rising temperatures. We're are almost as warm now as we were in the medieval warming period. They had a lot of V8 engines in medieval times, called them horses.

[golf4dns]

And what percent of consumption?

[Incoblack1]

Arctic ice is melting! Mountain ice caps are decreasing! Seasonal temperatures are increasing! Ocean temperatures and water levels are increasing!The scientists of every other single country in the world except this one has accepted these facts. Are we really the smartest nation of all or are we led by science deniers??

[44Apple]

We have leadership that ignores climate change to the detriment of earth's future, and covid-19 which, among other things, might be halting travel to Europe from America which would make us look like world pariahs. Fun times.

[Neils]

Do you do YOUR part that would reduce the CO2??

Is your house AC turned on?
Do you drive a car or golf cart?
Is your lawn mowed by a hand push mower?
Do you use your BBQ grill?

Unless YOU are doing something about it, then please stop telling us that it an emergency or expecting the government to solve the problem.

[44Apple]

Not solve but at least address it, work on it. Hard to understand?

[Strongel]

Originally Posted by harry black

Arctic ice is melting! Mountain ice caps are decreasing! Seasonal temperatures are increasing! Ocean temperatures and water levels are increasing!The scientists of every other single country in the world except this one has accepted these facts. Are we really the smartest nation of all or are we led by science deniers??

I think many of these people don’t deny it, just what is causing the phenomenon.

[Strongel]

Originally Posted by nututv

It's been hashed over too many times and people still ignore it. I don't think people dispute the climate is changing. The dispute is what the cause is.
There isn't any more (or less) water on this planet than there really ever was regarding this argument.
Sea levels have risen and fallen over the millennia. Florida had salt water beaches further inland than Gainesville at one time. It happened before, it'll probably happen again.

Common sense won’t be tolerated.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by harry black

...The scientists of every other single country in the world except this one has accepted these facts...

I would doubt that claim regardless of what the topic might be.