Global warming.

[rockmom]

It's refreshing to be on the same side as mtn ref for once. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy this one.

[mcpapa]

Continuing to deplete fossil fuels isn't a practical long-term solution.

[Jackie Ed]

I truly believe in global warming. One of many man made things to contribute is cities. Cities made of concrete an drew black top, replacing trees and grass and displacing waterways that would naturally absorb that solar heat and reproduce it into oxygen and energy. Instead the concrete, brick and blacktop is absorbing that heat. Also the industrial revolution I truly believe helped aid in global warming. Can't convince me putting all that dirt in the air isn't causing heat to sTay trapped in out atmopshere. When every year is the hottest ever on record it starts becoming more than a coincidence. And yes I rrcycle

[PurplePride92]

This may be an old article but cool maps nonetheless.

 

 

What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted - National Geographic

https://apple.news/APYPgIhjLRrmdh7AythsIcQ

[jericho]

Go nuclear.

 

Yeah but what do we do with all that spent fuel.

[All Tell]

I truly believe in global warming. One of many man made things to contribute is cities. Cities made of concrete an drew black top, replacing trees and grass and displacing waterways that would naturally absorb that solar heat and reproduce it into oxygen and energy. Instead the concrete, brick and blacktop is absorbing that heat. Also the industrial revolution I truly believe helped aid in global warming. Can't convince me putting all that dirt in the air isn't causing heat to sTay trapped in out atmopshere. When every year is the hottest ever on record it starts becoming more than a coincidence. And yes I rrcycle

 

Lots of cities at the end of the last ice age.

[jericho]

It's refreshing to be on the same side as mtn ref for once. I'm just going to sit back and enjoy this one.

 

I'm privileged then.

[Jackie Ed]

Plenty of cities yes, but what were the buildings and roads made of? Mostly stone for buildings and mud for roads.

[Jim Schue]

It was a link to a wiki page and states the data was reconstructed. So in short avg global temps were not being tracked 1000 years ago. Best I can find is data going back to 1880. But for arguments sake let's say the 1000 year number is correct. That makes it .0000002222% of the planets existence. Is that really any better?

 

And who said do nothing? Wind energy just isn't a viable option. I think solar could be but it's expensive and the technology isn't where it needs to be.

 

Why not to the bolded? Every time I drive I-74 from Ky to Iowa I pass by dozens upon dozens of windmill farms amidst the endless sea of cornfields. Those people in Central Illinois are most decidedly not folks who tow the liberal line. Hell, there's a good 30 miles of road signs out on the edge of properties abutting the interstate talking about how Illinois' gun laws are foolish. Are those country farmers that nuanced in their political beliefs?

[All Tell]

Plenty of cities yes, but what were the buildings and roads made of? Mostly stone for buildings and mud for roads.

 

And yet the climate changed. That's my point. The climate has changed before man was here, the climate will change wnem man is gone.

[Jim Schue]

Keep burning that styrofoam for heat, folks. Hell, it doesn't matter. No way in hell our world's massive population explosion in the last 50 years could possibly make a difference.

[rockmom]

I'm privileged then.

 

Do I detect sarcasm? :lol2:

[Run To State]

Of course the climate changes, duh. Always has, always will. Climate change has been politicized, follow the money.

[Bluegrasscard]

Go to 2:03. Published 2016 map vs real map.

 

[jericho]

Do I detect sarcasm? :lol2:

 

No way

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