Climate Change is a very simple concept. So anyone that disagrees with Anthropogenic Global Warming please answer these very simple questions:
1) Is CO2 a greenhouse gas?
2) Has the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere increased dramatically over the last 100 years which coincides with industrialized human activity?
3) If 1 and 2 are true, which they are as they are scientific certainties, then how is it possible to dramatically increase greenhouse gasses in the razor thin atmosphere and not expect to impact climate?
Build a greenhouse in your backyard then go inside. Feel that? But you're not surprised? Why? It's the exact same principle. You're trapping more heat inside that would otherwise escape out.
Now, what determines whether an organism be it plant or animal survives? Rate of change. A living organism can only survive as long as the rate of change in climate does not exceed the organism or the food the organism depends upon does not exceed the living organism or its food's ability to adapt. When rate of change exceeds the ability to adapt the result is extinction.
Right now, today, completely unknown to you we are smack in the middle of the 6th mass extinction event in world history:
Currently, the species extinction rate is estimated between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates—the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around. While extinctions are a normal and expected part of the evolutionary process, the current rates of species population decline and species extinction are high enough to threaten important ecological functions that support human life on Earth, such as a stable climate, predictable regional precipitation patterns, and productive farmland and fisheries.
Google 6th mass extinction event and understand what that means.
Life is failing to adapt to change all over the globe already and it will intensify. The cold air pouring down out of the arctic tonight is not normal. They call them arctic blasts. That cold air leaving the arctic is because record warm air is entering it both by air and sea. The processes like the jet stream and the global thermohaline circulation are being disrupted and will eventually cease. These are the primary drivers of climate on the planet. Want to introduce climate rate of change that outstrips life's ability to adapt then those are great ways to do it.
There are a number of additional horrors as well. Each new feedback loop that begins is another nail in the coffin. There are already far too many to prevent. Barring some miracle advance in technology in carbon capture there will be no happy ending. There also will not be any far off into the future consequences. These are now. Already. Anything that results in earth being a barren lifeless rock with no water or atmosphere will be a miracle of indescribably great proportions. We've had climate change events before such as the Permean extinction that nearly drove all life from the planet, but not only are we changing the climate much faster now than what happened then, we have 480 nuclear power stations all around the globe. Do you know what ionizing radiation does?
Enjoy your lives and your families. Every reasonably healthy person reading this will all be killed by the same thing. It won't be sea level rise. That is foolish distraction. So enjoy the very short relatively "normal" that is left. You don't need to worry about retirement plans or college savings. Live happily what life is left and be thankful for it.
I will not address this issue further. You have between 2 and 7 years left and we're all in that same boat together. Your belief is not required and neither are your affirmations. This is what will be unless some technological miracle happens and if you knew and understood the furious global search for one you would be terrified and really there is no point in that at all.
abcnews.go.com
