Are you now convinced that climate change is real?
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QuickSilver
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Yes
Underock1
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We have been having wonderful weather in Northern NJ for the past two years, with mild Winters and moderate Summers. Having 90dg days right now but that's the extent of our "heat waves". That all sounds great, but its a complete change from what the weather used to be. Spmething's definitely going on.
We are only one month into our coldest wettest winter on record ... combined with distructive winds ..which has caused an estimated $5 million $ ..damage in Adelaide ( Capitol city of South Aust)
A suburban train had to be stopped today because a home had its roof blown off which was left hanging like a bed sheet on the electric trains power lines ..( another wild wind storm AGAIN today)
I will post a picture of our beaches where I live ...it's a Bay area ,therefore it's normally very calm beach side area
I live 500 mtrs from this beach .....never in my life have we been warned by emergency services by text to be ready to evacuate our home at short notice ...Luckily didn't have to ..but it was a very nervous nights sleep after receiving the text message at 9 pm at night
The storm photos were taken 4 weeks ago
A suburban train had to be stopped today because a home had its roof blown off which was left hanging like a bed sheet on the electric trains power lines ..( another wild wind storm AGAIN today)
I will post a picture of our beaches where I live ...it's a Bay area ,therefore it's normally very calm beach side area
I live 500 mtrs from this beach .....never in my life have we been warned by emergency services by text to be ready to evacuate our home at short notice ...Luckily didn't have to ..but it was a very nervous nights sleep after receiving the text message at 9 pm at night
The storm photos were taken 4 weeks ago
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Debby
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Wow, only 500 metres from that waterfront!!! Nervous? You must have been very scared. I would certainly have been up all night wondering if it was wise to stay there.
I'm like Ameriscot and have accepted for a long time that change is happening. Where I used to live in British Columbia, when I grew up there, the winter rain started in November and went on until June. Cold, wet, miserable......farmers often couldn't get heavy equipment on the wet fields until May, but nowadays, my mom who still lives there is mowing her lawn and starting to water her hedge trees in mid-April.
I'm like Ameriscot and have accepted for a long time that change is happening. Where I used to live in British Columbia, when I grew up there, the winter rain started in November and went on until June. Cold, wet, miserable......farmers often couldn't get heavy equipment on the wet fields until May, but nowadays, my mom who still lives there is mowing her lawn and starting to water her hedge trees in mid-April.
QuickSilver
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Not to mention all the extreme weather we have.. So many tornados, and floods.. Yes something IS going on and it's frightening
Jackie22
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Wow, Kadee, what a scary storm....like others, I did not need to be convinced on climate change, I think it is the number one problem this planet is facing.
Don M.
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Those who pay attention to the scientific reports should have little doubt that our climate and weather conditions are changing at an increasingly rapid pace. Between "man made" issues, and natural cycles, our weather patterns will only continue to get more extreme. Here is an interesting article about the effects the Sun has on our climate, as it goes through its predictable cycles. According to this report, the Sun will enter an extended "solar cycle" sometime in 2019-2020, that will have a substantial impact on our weather for months...or more.
http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/...he-weakest-solar-cycle-in-more-than-a-century
http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/...he-weakest-solar-cycle-in-more-than-a-century
Dupe Murkland
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Nah. I mean; yeah, the climate is changing... like it has for 4-billion years. You're referring to the phenomenon formerly known as 'global warming', before they had to change it. It's not warming.
Wait'll Winter returns and the subject vanishes again.
fureverywhere
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Dupe, you've been duped...they estimate in perhaps a mere twenty years that there are places now inhabited by people that will be too hot to live in as temperatures continue to rise. Humans have destroyed the environment and there's nothing that can change that now. I saw " An Inconvenient Truth" when it came out in 2006...three words cataclysmic weather conditions...Al was right on target.
When leading figures from the political party known for selfishness and greed became enraged over Al Gore's involvement in getting the word out on climate change, I knew that such vehement denial by said party was in effect, direct confirmation of the reality of climate change.
Dupe Murkland
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After the carbon barons figure-out how to make money out of it.
I have no doubt that global warming exists. How much is natural versus how much man has contributed--I think we are responsible for hurrying things along. I'm not convinced it can be reversed however, we need to take it more seriously and attempt to slow things down.
Dudewho
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When I was a kid CFC were causing Global cooling by opening the Ozone hole, we need to get ride of those areosol cans!!
When I wasn't paying attention it when it changed to Global warming-Al Gore was that you?
Now we have Climate change???
Carbon Dioxide is a Green house gas???
Isn't Ozone produced by the Sun? What up with that?
I was lied to and duped in 3 grade. I'm not falling for it again.
Carbon dioxide in photosynthesis
Plants get carbon dioxide from the air through their leaves. The carbon dioxide diffuses through small holes in the underside of the leaf called stomata. (singular: stoma. plural: stomata)
The lower part of the leaf has loose-fitting cells, to allow carbon dioxide to reach the other cells in the leaf. This also allows the oxygen produced in photosynthesis to leave the leaf easily.
Carbon dioxide is present in the air we breathe, at very low concentrations. Even though it forms about .04% of the air, it is a needed factor in light-independent photosynthesis.
In higher concentrations, more carbon is incorporated into carbohydrate, therefore increasing the rate of photosynthesis in light-independent reactions.
When I wasn't paying attention it when it changed to Global warming-Al Gore was that you?
Now we have Climate change???
Carbon Dioxide is a Green house gas??? Isn't Ozone produced by the Sun? What up with that?
I was lied to and duped in 3 grade. I'm not falling for it again.
Carbon dioxide in photosynthesis
Plants get carbon dioxide from the air through their leaves. The carbon dioxide diffuses through small holes in the underside of the leaf called stomata. (singular: stoma. plural: stomata)
The lower part of the leaf has loose-fitting cells, to allow carbon dioxide to reach the other cells in the leaf. This also allows the oxygen produced in photosynthesis to leave the leaf easily.
Carbon dioxide is present in the air we breathe, at very low concentrations. Even though it forms about .04% of the air, it is a needed factor in light-independent photosynthesis.
In higher concentrations, more carbon is incorporated into carbohydrate, therefore increasing the rate of photosynthesis in light-independent reactions.
Debby
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When I was a kid CFC were causing Global cooling by opening the Ozone hole, we need to get ride of those areosol cans!!
When I wasn't paying attention it when it changed to Global warming-Al Gore was that you?
Now we have Climate change???
Isn't Ozone produced by the Sun? What up with that?
I was lied to and duped in 3 grade. I'm not falling for it again.
Carbon dioxide in photosynthesis
Plants get carbon dioxide from the air through their leaves. The carbon dioxide diffuses through small holes in the underside of the leaf called stomata. (singular: stoma. plural: stomata)
The lower part of the leaf has loose-fitting cells, to allow carbon dioxide to reach the other cells in the leaf. This also allows the oxygen produced in photosynthesis to leave the leaf easily.
Carbon dioxide is present in the air we breathe, at very low concentrations. Even though it forms about .04% of the air, it is a needed factor in light-independent photosynthesis.
In higher concentrations, more carbon is incorporated into carbohydrate, therefore increasing the rate of photosynthesis in light-independent reactions.
I'm not sure I understand what point you're trying to make with the graphic Dudewho. If you're saying that plants use up the CO2, you're right but here's the problem. There is more CO2 than plants can handle and part of the reason for that is the millions of acres of forest that is being cut down for the sake of planting soy and grazing cattle in Brazil. Not only does the burning of stumps and forest trash release the stored CO2 back into the atmosphere, but now there's fewer trees to absorb and use the CO2 that we are continually creating with our activities. That same scenario also applies in other countries including yours and mine although now to a much smaller degree than in S. America.
As well, the CO2 apparently acidifies the oceans when it is absorbed by the sea water and that is contributing to the death of the coral reefs.
And I heard recently that the CFC reduction must have done its job because the hole in the ozone layer (over the Antarctic) has actually reduced in size. '...There's a big hole in our ozone right over the Antarctic right now, and it's slightly bigger than last year. However, according to NASA data, this hole is still significantly smaller than it was a decade ago and is likely going to keep shrinking....'
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9992/20141031/ozone-hole-still-shrinking-nasa.htm
And the CFC's created an entirely different problem I think, than CO2 in the atmosphere has which is why it's called a greenhouse gas. As the gas blankets the earth, it prevents excess heat from escaping, causing the earths temperatures to rise. Just like insulating your house, the thicker the layer of greenhouse gases, the warmer your house/earth stays. I think that's how it works although if I've made a mistake somewhere, someone please correct me.
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Eric
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Climate change has always been real been happening for centuries without our help
Dupe Murkland
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Yep. Plus, like Dudewho said; we were quasi-brainwashed about 'the coming ice-age' in elementary-school. Phooey. A pox on both schools of witch-doctory.
Hey, scientists. Make the prediction, then back-off... We'll do the dissertation on it ourselves.
Debby
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Except when did you ever see the average person reading 'scientific discoveries' and then make changes in their life that would benefit the planet? And what would be the point of you or I making our own 'dissertation' on it. Heck, we talk here, show evidences and 'write' all kinds of mini dissertations re: our opinions and they get dismissed and the status quo continues.
Face it, until things get dire, no one wants to change the way they do things and then when it's almost too late and the pain is universal, we all start accusing the government of not doing anything to save us. Thank God for the environmentalists who haven't let things die while we've been busy writing our 'dissertations'.
Face it, until things get dire, no one wants to change the way they do things and then when it's almost too late and the pain is universal, we all start accusing the government of not doing anything to save us. Thank God for the environmentalists who haven't let things die while we've been busy writing our 'dissertations'.