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Meanwhile in the real world people understand that climate change causes more volatile and record-breaking weather evets INCLUDING SNOWFALL
Except that the last time New York had this kind of snowfall was in 1982 when there was no such man-made climate crisis going on.
You mean like in
1824 when Joseph Fourier described the Greenhouse effect? Or in 1859 when John Tyndall proved Fouriers' theory? Or in 1899 when Thomas Chamberlin first developed climate models that showed how increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could cause climatic effects? Or when Edward Teller said in 1959:
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Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.
At present the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by 2 per cent over normal. By 1970, it will be perhaps 4 per cent, by 1980, 8 per cent, by 1990, 16 per cent [about 360 parts per million, by Teller’s accounting], if we keep on with our exponential rise in the use of purely conventional fuels. By that time, there will be a serious additional impediment for the radiation leaving the earth. Our planet will get a little warmer. It is hard to say whether it will be 2 degrees Fahrenheit or only one or 5.
But when the temperature does rise by a few degrees over the whole globe, there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the level of the oceans will begin to rise. Well, I don’t know whether they will cover the Empire State Building or not, but anyone can calculate it by looking at the map and noting that the icecaps over Greenland and over Antarctica are perhaps five thousand feet thick.
Or how Oil companies had mitigation strategies (like the tobacco companies did) on how to keep selling their stuff though a clever campaign of misinformation - 40 years ago!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... years-ago/But, suddenly, all of this was forgotten by 1982?
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