Okay, I've had to clear this up for one person on my friends list already, so I'm going to do this as a post so everyone can see it. And no. I am NOT putting this behind a cut
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Conversely it's not as straightforward as some environmentalists like to make it. It is happening but exactly why it is happening isn't so clear. Which particular gases are the culprits etc.
You've summed it up wonderfully. Unfortunately, I know way too many people who prefer to live in denial. Still, even they can't deny that although a decade ago it was highly unusual for us to have temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius in Sault Ste. Marie, days where the temperature's gone up to 35 degrees Celsius or higher haven't exactly been rare this year (or last year, for that matter). The water levels in Lake Superior are dropping and nobody claims to know why, but there've been suggestions that it's likely that it's at least partially because the local weather's warmed up enough that the lake doesn't freeze over as quickly in the winter, therefore allowing more of it to evaporate. Ten years ago, it was highly unusual for us to have more than a few days in the summer when the air was hazy; these days, it's highly unusual for there not to be a haze. Given what's been happening even just around here in the Sault, I don't understand how they can possibly deny that something's up
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Nope, not even a drop. I absolutely agree with everything you say. Several people I work with have decided to take their cue from a TV show that distorted the whole topic, over years of collated scientific evidence.
Venus is only 20% closer to the sun than the Earth; yet it is hotter than Mercury. Why? Speculation says because it never developed large bodies of water to act as carbon sinks, and any that was locked in carbonate rock was baked out as the oven heated up. Venus has roughly the same volume of carbon as Earth has.
I am totally with you on this one also. I too have to deal with eejits on a daily basis re. environmentalism and global warming. People do so love to bury their heads in the proverbial sand when the truth becomes inconvenient.
My biggest bugbear is the huge focus on carbon and the ignoring of other greenhouse gases (particularly methane) when IMHO we collectively need to be tackling all of them. All the publicity and CO2 calculators and that sort of thing don't take it into account so are painting a misleading picture.
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Conversely it's not as straightforward as some environmentalists like to make it. It is happening but exactly why it is happening isn't so clear. Which particular gases are the culprits etc.
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Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
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Idiots.
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My biggest bugbear is the huge focus on carbon and the ignoring of other greenhouse gases (particularly methane) when IMHO we collectively need to be tackling all of them. All the publicity and CO2 calculators and that sort of thing don't take it into account so are painting a misleading picture.
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