as are you, and if you choose to believe that soccer moms driving SUVs are destroying the climate, go right ahead.
The climate of our planet is changing, it has been changing for millions of years and will be changing millions of years from now. Man has never, and will never, have anything to do with it.
Any yutz can offer the observation that x (whatever x might happen to be) has always been changing or has always been in the process of change. That's about as relevant as someone who's driving a car hard without doing proper maintenance remarking that all cars get old and all parts eventually wear out. While true, it doesn't alter the fact that not changing the oil regularly and driving a car hard will shorten its useful lifespan after causing expensive repairs along the way.
Of course humans can alter the climate if they alter the composition of the atmosphere in much the same way that humans can alter an ecosystem by polluting a lake, killing all the fish, and poisoning the wildlife in the food chain which just so happens to be what happened to the Great Lakes decades ago which is what ushered in environmental protection laws in the first place.
why is it that you libs can't understand the difference between pollution and climate change. Pollution is bad, pollution does not cause climate change.
See that big ball of fire in the sky? Its called the sun, it controls the climate of our planet, not whether we use incandescent bulbs or toxic curly bulbs made in china.
While conservative ignorance is nothing new, it IS a wonder to behold. I say that because the sun wouldn't and couldn't heat the Earth to a level that would allow life as we know it to flourish if it were not for greenhouse gases. Without CO2 in the atmosphere, the Earth would be several hundred degrees below zero. What that means is that messing with the NATURAL balance of CO2 by introducing massive quantities of the gas is potentially very dangerous once levels rise beyond a certain point. People have learned similar lessons on a local and regional level thought the introduction of too much salt on the roads to clear ice in the winter. It gets in the water table and can effect the ability of farmers to grow crops. They've found it out by over-fertilizing fields and discovered later that the run off could kill all the fish in lakes. They've found it out by clear cutting trees on mountains which ultimately led to mud slides due to the fact that no trees were there to soak up the water from the rains. It's called the law of unintended consequences because very often people don't clearly understand the ramifications of their actions. That's understandable. What's not understandable is why people continue on these paths once the dangers are known. That's just plain stupidity. That and greed.
thats all true. CO2 makes up .039% of the atmosphere. it is the same today as it was 100 million years ago.
Man is not causing the climate to change, man does not have that power. Try sunspots, a slight wobble on the earth's axis, ocean current variations. Those things affect climate, not using fossil fuels to improve the lives of human beings.
NOW PAY ATTENTION; POLLUTION IS BAD, POLLUTION SHOULD BE STOPPED, POLLUTION DOES NOT CAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE.
Man has the power to dig up buried carbon (what we today call fossil fuels) that's been buried (AND out of circulation in the atmosphere) for millions of years and reintroduce it into the environment. In fact, it's those fossil fuels that have enabled man to change the face of the planet on a massive scale never dreamed of before by replacing horse power with horsepower. This has allowed humans to create machines which in turn can be used to build ever larger machines, all of which burn the fossil fuels we've unearthed.
Now, with that said, what was the CO2 level 150 years ago?
.039%, just as it is today. Oh, it may have been .037%--------BFD. Man is not changing the climate the planet.
You fricken envirowackos said that the gulf would be dead from the BP oil spill, but its alive and safe and full of excellent fish, crabs, shrimp, and oysters, the beaches are clean and beautiful, the marsh has recovered, the birds are flying and reproducing----------in short, you are full of shit.