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Meanwhile an Alpine Village older than the Americas in Switzerland was wiped off the map by a collapsing glacier last week.
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Because glaciers should never melt because you don't want anything to ever, ever change. I don't think you were selling wooden cars that ran on Unicorn Farts all those years.
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It's not that glaciers don't ever melt. It's that the melting has accelerated.
You think we should ignore changes in climate and in glaciation, or should we look into it?
Tell me why that's irrational.
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"Accelerated?" How do you know the melting has "accelerated?" Oh, that's right, because "climate scientists" whose block grant funding is completely dependent on a certain result that continues the hysteria to ensure more block grant funding down the line.
You're a tool to believe any of it.
The climate has been in a constant state of flux for billions or years. I hardly think glaciers in Switzerland are melting because we exceptional Americans liked to drive high powered muscle cars for a few decades or the Chinks like to pollute everything around them to make a quick buck.
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I know because it's been measured. The climate from the past has been measured. They take samples of ice, soil, and other places and can measure the sediments and the story they tell.
What the hell do you actually know about it?
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It's been measured since when, again? And the measurements of the past show clearly that the climate has been in a constant state of flux for billions of years. On whose hubris do you claim we need to spend trillions of dollars on "green" scams to "stop" something we as a species are incapable of stopping or changing in any way?
Get a grip, Greta.
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Google, bitch...
"The that ice cores preserve evidence of much lower levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide than today. Since the start of the Pleistocene Epoch, roughly 2 million years ago, some periods in which glaciers retreated (called glaciations and interglacials) caused massive swings in carbon dioxide. For a period of at least 800,000 years, CO2 concentrations ranged from 180 to 300 parts per million, according to a from Antarctica.
Since the start of the , however, human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions have steadily raised CO2 concentrations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that, as of the week beginning February 26, 2023, CO2 emissions stood at 421.91 parts per million.
Compared to ancient atmospheric composition, today’s atmosphere has more carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide has a smaller proportion of carbon-14. Both these facts show the effect of human activity and the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuel."
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Who paid for the NSF-ISC reports? Who funds NOAA?
Don't be stupid, woman. One single volcanic eruption, such as Mt St. Helens or the ongoing eruptions in Hawaii and Iceland, release more carbon into the atmosphere in a single day than all of the emissions created by humans since humans started walking upright.
Google that Fact.
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Wrong again, as usual. You're a moron Frood.
The Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991 did not put out more emissions than the entire industrial revolution to that point. While the eruption released a large amount of sulfur dioxide, which caused temporary global cooling, the Industrial Revolution has released significantly more greenhouse gases like over a longer period, resulting in a far greater long-term impact on the Earth's climate.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
- Mount Pinatubo's Impact:
The eruption released approximately 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. This caused a temporary cooling of the Earth's surface, primarily due to the sulfur dioxide reflecting sunlight. The cooling effect was significant, with global temperatures dropping by about 0.5°C between 1991 and 1993.
- Industrial Revolution's Impact:
The Industrial Revolution, starting in the late 18th century, has been responsible for a massive increase in greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide. Over the entire industrial era, approximately 2.3 trillion tonnes of CO2 has been released into the atmosphere. This has led to a gradual warming of the Earth's climate, which is more profound and long-lasting than the temporary cooling caused by Mount Pinatubo.
- Scale of the Emissions:
The amount of sulfur dioxide released by Pinatubo is a small fraction of the greenhouse gas emissions from the Industrial Revolution.
- Long-Term vs. Short-Term Effects:
The Industrial Revolution's emissions have a long-term warming effect, while Mount Pinatubo's eruption caused a relatively short-term cooling effect.
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Yep, they're only angry because they're tokd to be angry
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Aquifers are drying up
Groundwater Decline and Depletion | U.S. Geological Survey
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