2024- the warmest year in recorded history.

[fuzzybuddy]

2024 was the warmest year in recorded history. It beat out 2023, which was the warmest. And that year beat out 2022, which beat out 2021. Glaciers are rapidly melting.
So, do you think global warming is BS?
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[Capt Lightning]

Aye, right.

 

[Trade]

It's real.

 

[WhatInThe]

'...in recorded history...'

How many years or centuries have they been recording temperatures on the scale we do now?

Considering the earth is about 500 million years old the last century is basically a hiccup in the life of the planet.

 

[Twostep]

Not according to my 2022, 2023, 2024 heat bill.

 

[oldman]

Blame it on China. They emit about 3x’s as much greenhouse gases as the U.S. does, but the U.S. is second.

China continues to build new coal-fired power plants, with construction activity reaching a 10-year high in 2024, despite its climate goals and efforts to transition to cleaner energy.

 

[hollydolly]

I can believe it.. most of you will remember 90 deg temps inside my house at midnight.. and with no AC here it was pretty horrible...

 

[Aunt Bea]

I’m not sure that simply believing in global warming will do much good.

It seems that most of us are content to point at all of the people that we believe are the cause of global warming while doing little if anything to change our own behavior.

 

[Paladin1950]

2024 was the warmest year in recorded history. It beat out 2023, which was the warmest. And that year beat out 2022, which beat out 2021. Glaciers are rapidly melting.
So, do you think global warming is BS?
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=5a2d...YXItQUExQmRQZUc_b2NpZD1CaW5nTmV3c1NlcnA&ntb=1

I got a brain, so I have always believed in Global Warming. With that brain, I remember that horrible winter of 1958, when the snow was up to the roof of our one story ranch style house.

 

[Della]

Well, I doubt if it's any help, but I rarely eat beef anymore.

"Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere."

 

[Michael Z]

The big thing is all the ice melting. I really am not thinking we can stop this. But a few very big volcanoes could bring temps down.

 

[hollydolly]

I got a brain, so I have always believed in Global Warming. With that brain, I remember that horrible winter of 1958, when the snow was up to the roof of our one story ranch style house.

we had that in the winter of '63.... in Scotland

 

[Della]

The big thing is all the ice melting. I really am not thinking we can stop this. But a few very big volcanoes could bring temps down.

The polar bears are heart breaking.

 

[911]

There’s no doubt that global warming is for real. Our winters are nothing like they were when I was a kid. We never had to go west or further north to go sledding, skiing or to go tubing. In my area, we have a few short mountains that usually make snow compared to a mountain like Aspen, or better known as Elk Mountains.

 

[rgp]

As I told someone here in a direct reply ......... I do believe the earth is warming/changing but. What can we do about it just now ? What is anyone willing to give up in an attempt to reverse it ?

Stop driving, ride a horse, walk, ride a bicycle ?

Give up your A/C and deal with summer the best way you can without it ?

When the icy grip of winter comes back, are you going to refuse to benefit from the power generated by N/gas , coal, from the power company ?

Burn your furniture and hope it is enough to last all winter. Then forage for more wood for the next winter ?

 

[Pendle]

Well the coalfields in England were formed from tropical rainforests & in the 14th century they were growing grapevines as far north as Yorkshire so it must have been warmer in past times.