Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 0:04:15 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

Any Global Warming is not caused by humans so your basic thesis is
wrong.  Climates change all the time.  Just about all of it is due to
that big fusion reactor in the sky that is so incredibly inefficient
(1.8%) but works so well with it's 10+ billion years of fuel.

 As I said, it's pretty basic science that carbon dioxide is transparent
to the light and short-wave infrared we get from the Sun that warms the
Earth, but is opaque to the long-wave infrared that the Earth emits into
space to cool off.
 So burning fossil fuels, which has measurably increased the proportion
of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, has changed the equilibrium point of
Earth's temperature.
 This is recognized and agreed upon by the competent scientists in the
field. The few dissenters have been caught receiving oil company
funding.
 I don't know what more evidence you could possibly want.
 Yes, climates do change from natural causes. On significantly longer
timescales than phenomena caused by human action.
 John Savard