Ok post industrial revolution the Earth's average temperature has risen consistently.
Of course that rise began before the post industrial period. The rise began with the end of the little ice age. The rise shoud reasonably be expected to continue till the temperatures at least reach the level of the medieval or roman warm periods but could well continue on to the level of the holocene maximum. You can't build a scientific case out of coincendence.
It was the rise out of the little ice age and accompanying food production that made the industrial age possible.
The past decade was one of the hottest on record.
One of but certainly not THE hottest and certainly not as warm as the medieval or roman warm periods and not even close to the holocene maximum.
Look at the NASA report since the industrial revolution, it's not just coincidence.
All of the temperature databases, including the nasa record have been tampered with to quite an extent. The evidence is overwhelming.
Arctic ice is rapidly vanishing, and all you have to do is look at the caps for proof of that.
How much ice do you believe was at the arctic during either the roman or medieval warm periods? Do you believe there was any ice there during the holocene maximum?
Ice sheets are melting. Glaciers are rapidly decreasing around the world.
The ice sheets and glaciers have been melting for some 14 thousand years now. During that period they have retreated nearly 2000 miles. What makes you believe that that trend should not continue till the temperature reaches at least that of the medieval or roman warm periods?
Millimeters per century? So what. Sea level has risen some 600 feet in the past 14,000 years. Again, what makes you think that the trend is either unnatural or should stop on our account?
The forests and oceans ability to absorb CO2 levels cannot keep up pollution levels resulting in more acidic waters.
Most life on earth, land and sea evolved during times when atmospheric CO2 was between 1000 and 4000 ppm. Clearly such levels of CO2 are not unprecedented and the fossil record indicates that life on land and in the oceans flourished under such conditions.
Coral reefs are being stressed by water changes to the point that massive bleaching continues...and no it is not just from farm runoff and boat props. Corals are living creatures and significantly react to water temperatures and acidity.
Coral reefs are stressing due to runoff from farms and industry, access by boats and people, and leaking boats, not CO2. Studies have shown that the fears of acidification due to atmospheric CO2 are greatly overblown and there is the fact that most corals evolved during a time when atmospheric CO2 was above 3000 ppm.
We humans are destroying the very forests, wetlands, and oceans that help balance this planet by ignoring our impact and using cycles as an excuse.
Legitimate concern, but nothing to do with climate change and trying to frame such concerns in the context of climate change when it is obvious that is not the issue degrades the concerns and tends to get them ignored.
We dump our trash and sewage into our water systems choking wildlife an creating massive dead zones. We fish, hunt, and destroy ecosystems to the point of near mass extermination of thousands of species of animals and plants. Factories around the world spew out millions of tons of pollution every day into the atmosphere.
Again, not due to CO2 and to frame your concerns as such makes you appear like a hysteric.
Hundreds of thousands of airplanes fly across the sky around the world every day dumping the exhaust and pollution of the jet fuel it burns into the atmosphere. Over a billion cars and trucks, over a billion think about that, around the world pump out its exhaust and harmful pollutants into the air every hour of the day.
Show me one hard bit of evidence that proves that atmospheric CO2 is dangerous. At what level do you believe it becomes dangerous to life on earth? Remember that life has flourished at very high concentrations. In fact, by historical standards, the present atmosphere is potistively starved for CO2.
We destroy mountains mining for outdated resources. We search for dirty fossil fuels by destroying protected lands and drilling holes into the Earth all just to cling to a way of life that is unsustainable. And this is just a few of the harmful things we do.
But none of those things is caused by so called man made climate change. Like most warmists, you seem to be confused over the differences between pollution and climate change.
To deny that we are impacting this planet to me is just blind and extremely arrogant.
I never said that we were not impacting the planet. I said that we weren't causing climate change beyond that which can be accounted for by changing land use.
Sure the Earth has cycles which can also contribute but those cycles are long and spread out, the trend we have seen over the last century is very fast in comparison.
No it isn't. The temperature increase during both the medieval and roman warm periods came on much faster than our present climb out of the little ice age and the increase during the holocene maximum was much faster than present.
