Longer heatwaves driven by ‘turbo-charged’ climate change, say scientists

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[–]chedca2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

anthropogenic climate change is a farce, evaporated ocean water makes up the near total majority of greenhouse effect that we're supposed to worry about. emissions barely make a dent. (from the newspaper today; https://imgur.com/a/pcWvid3)

climate is changing and it certainly feels like there are fewer bugs in the boonies these days but that may be more attributable to solar cycles than the minute effect of our carbon output

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anthropogenic climate change is a farce

You don't believe that the increase in CO2 is due to human activity?

Or you don't believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas?

evaporated ocean water makes up the near total majority of greenhouse effect that we're supposed to worry about

"near total" is wrong.

But it is a very significant greenhouse gas.

However, the process by which water leaves the atmosphere is not limited by anything. If it gets cold enough it will precipitate out and fall. The mean life of water in the atmosphere is 10 days.

So if you add water to the atmosphere, you do get increased greenhouse effect for a very short period, but mostly what you get is rain in the following week or two. And the water is now gone.

CO2 lasts for 300-1000 years. So when you put that in the atmosphere, you get a change in climate.

climate is changing

yes it is.

that may be more attributable to solar cycles

Nope, not solar cycles.

than the minute effect of our carbon output

The warming is bang on the nose of what was predicted to be from out carbon output 35 years ago. So it's only as minuscule as is observed.