Blocked by someone trying to deny climate change, LOL!!!

Anyone who denies climate change will continue denying it no matter what occurs. They came to their conclusion without evidence, evidence will not change their mind.

Here's an example of what they blocked:

[quote]but I've yet to hear a rational explanation of how miniscule increases in an atmospheric trace gas such as CO2, causes the earth to warm.[/quote] It's because CO2 & methane are transparent to visible light but more opaque to infrared. The solar energy comes pouring in via the visible spectrum, but the heat can't leave so easily via the infrared spectrum due to that opacity. Kids' version:
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-co2-and-other-greenhouse-gases
idealized quantitative model: https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/coriolis-force/a-simple-mathematical-model-of-the-greenhouse-effect.html

[quote] In order to actually prove human carbon emissions influence climate, all variables would have to remain constant[/quote] Nope. With multiple data points we can solve for multiple variables simultaneously. Detailed climate models account for all the variables you list and more. They are verified and calibrated based on 700,000 years of prior climate data.
http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/climate.html

[quote] Global warming models are based on small amounts of data. The earth is 4.6 billion years old, and we are expected to believe they can draw conclusions based on a hockey stick graph with 50 years of data?[/quote]
Nope, not 50 years, 800,000 years, covering about 7 ice ages. The climate data comes from bubbles in glacial ice, and is corroborated by data from lake & sea floor sediments.
https://icecores.org/about-ice-cores
CO2 & methane & temp data

Here's [i]where[/i] the various data sets were collected:

The most salient thing about the 800,000 years of climate data is the rate of change during those previous 7 ice ages compared to the current rate of change this century.

[quote] Where does the money for climate research come from?[/quote]
Fair question - it comes mostly from the National Science Foundation. Equally fair: where does the money for climate denial come from? The US oil industry makes about $110 [i]billion[/i] per year; coal another $20 billion. Big Oil spends $3.6 billion per year on advertising; a sum equal to about 8X the whole NSF climate budget. You're not naive enough to believe [i]none[/i] of that money goes to propaganda, are you?

Global warming doesn't exist, Covid was a hoax, Trump really won the election, the 'end times' are approaching, the moon landing was fake, Sandy Hook was a false flag, Democrats eat babies, the earth is flat, 5G causes cancer and on and on and on.

There's always been demented individuals in society. In the old days they'd stand on a corner with a sign the read "The end is near" and they were dismissed as fools. But the internet changed the game. It opened the door for weak-minded, fear-driven individuals to coalesce, feed and support each other's lunacy.

Like Goebbels said, "If your repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will come to believe it yourself."

I don't know how, or if, that cat gets put back in the bag.

Now he is taking a break from similar worlds, I guess you fucked him up.

You are like mr information you always come prepared 🙂

Of course corporations are the biggest polluters but they try to claim it is our fault.

Not much has been done to help things nor will it be because that would interfere with company and shareholder profits. It kind of sucks really.

They keep making cars bigger and bigger. They claim EV's help but all they do is transfer the pollution.
People could work from home which would save gasoline and time BUT companies want them back in the office so they can more easily micromanage their workers.

It is not about whether or not climate change is real, it is about if anyone seems to give a damn.
On an individual level it would be easy to help but like I said, companies are not about to sacrifice profit.

“Climate change” happens all the time. I think perhaps you mean “global warming”. No-one who has seen the evidence will deny that global warming has been happening recently, though only for a relatively short time. Equally, no-one can claim that they know for certain how the climate will change in the near, or more distant, future. I suggest you get off your high horse and start thinking.

you are doing good work. i am honored and encouraged by your posts. i hope that positive action can result, but, i personally feel convinced that we are past the point of no return. the amazon rainforest is now deforesting itself, forest fires are getting out of control, and rivers that supply drinking water are dry. it's too little too late.

I've been blocked by someone, "nite doc" who can't support his claims about "identifying as cats and dogs" and "requesting litter trays."
Snowflake chose to block me rather than supply evidence, [b]LOL!!![/b]

https://similarworlds.com/life/4956605-Students-Identify-As-Animals-Cats-Dogs

[b]LOL!!![/b]
No Thanks Leon just blocked me for pointing out that his personal attacks were just as unoriginal as my identifying them as ad hominem with memes🤣😂

https://similarworlds.com/groups/similar-worlds/4995391-I-lost-3-debates-last-week-One-woman-used-a-middle-finger

But dumbfuck trump said climate change is a hoax surely he wouldnt lie about something like that ?

They have already blocked me, probably for pointing out their obvious factual errors!

I think they also blocked these photos showing shrinkage of glaciers:


Muir Glacier, Alaska

Muir Glacier and Inlet, Alaska, 1880s and 2005

Carroll Glacier, Alaska, 1906 and 2004

Grinnell Glacier, Montana, 1926 and 2008

Bear Glacier from space 1980. 1989, 2011

Bear Glacier from the air 2002, 2007

Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems
[b]https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1619807114[/b]

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century
[b]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03436-z[/b]
[quote]Using largely untapped satellite archives, we chart surface elevation changes at a high spatiotemporal resolution over all of Earth’s glaciers. We extensively validate our estimates against independent, high-precision measurements and present a globally complete and consistent estimate of glacier mass change. We show that during 2000–2019, glaciers lost a mass of 267 ± 16 gigatonnes per year, equivalent to 21 ± 3 per cent of the observed sea-level rise6. We identify a mass loss acceleration of 48 ± 16 gigatonnes per year per decade, explaining 6 to 19 per cent of the observed acceleration of sea-level rise. [/quote]

I believe the Climate has changed, and is changing. Sometimes in good ways.
Sometimes in bad ways. Do you think we will ever be able to control the climate?

I hear that someone is working on ways to change the weather, but I don't know
if that would change the worlds climate.

And I have enjoyed your factual items!

One can simply look out the door and look at all of hurricanes, flooding, and the glaciers to see proof. Glaciers don't magically disappear. Fish patterns changed too. Must be my empty pole's imagination.

climate change deniers and trump supporters have no use for facts.

I think they also blocked this sea level rise data

Anonymized-hj says: [quote]The oceans have not risen a millimeter. Again you are WRONG
[/quote]
Sea level rise, mm/year, as measured by GPS

Anonymized-hj says: [quote] There has been no increase in sea levels.[/quote]
Actually, sea levels have risen 6 to 8 inches in the past 100 years. But the process continues even after the warming stops.

[quote]Between about 21,000 years and about 11,700 years ago, Earth warmed about 4 degrees C (7.2 degrees F), and the oceans rose (with a slight lag after the onset of warming) about 85 meters, or about 280 feet. However, sea levels continued to rise another 45 meters (about 150 feet) after the warming ended, to a total of 130 meters (from its initial level, before warming began), or about 430 feet, reaching its modern level about 3,000 years ago.

This means that, even after temperatures reached their maximum and leveled off, the ice sheets continued to melt for another 8,000 years until they reached an equilibrium with temperatures.

Stated another way, the ice sheets’ response to warming continued for 8,000 years after warming had already ended, with the meltwater contribution to global sea levels totaling 45 additional meters of sea-level rise.

From about 3,000 years ago to about 100 years ago, sea levels naturally rose and declined slightly, with little change in the overall trend. Over the past 100 years, global temperatures have risen about 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F), with sea level response to that warming totaling about 160 to 210 mm (with about half of that amount occurring since 1993), or about 6 to 8 inches. And the current rate of sea-level rise is unprecedented over the past several millennia.[/quote]

https://www.globalchange.gov/browse/indicators/global-sea-level-rise

8000 years of sea levels

Sea levels have been quite stable for the last 2000 years while humans built coastal cities. Climate change now threatens to raise sea levels and swamp those cities.

Didn't used to get woken up by the wind as often as I have been lately. Surely no coincidence ....

@CestManan says [quote] Besides, people who do worry about climate change would not be willing to change their own earth-destroying lifestyles anyways. [/quote]
And yet, and yet, and yet, here in the US we have reduced our per capita CO2 emission by over 30% since the year 2000. In other words, the data say you are DEAD WRONG.


In the US there are big variations state to state, but it all reflects people adjusting their lifestyles to cause investment in renewable energy sources.

The EU has likewise been reducing; not by as large a percentage but they started at a much lower point.


_https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matheus-Koengkan/publication/359438456/figure/fig1/AS%3A1137102968365058%401648117882866/CO2-emissions-metric-tons-per-capita-EU-between-1960-to-2018-The-authors-created-this.png_

Someone who either I’ve blocked or has already blocked me. Generally people who are anti-science choose to remain ignorant about many subjects, alas. 😒

I already blocked that fool

It is because some of your posts drone on and on. Nice that you are using stuff to back your stance on things but people do not want to read endless graphs and other junk.

Besides, whether this climate change is such a catastrophe or not, no one really cares at this point.

Ha ha, I'm blocked

Maybe their block button can also block the change.

One of mine.

https://similarworlds.com/experiences/archived-stories/1466594-A-few-weeks-ago-a-gentleman-wrote-in-to-put-down

Those people are so stupid. They cannot see reason.

Denial is born from a basis of intense fear. The fear can be from an unrelated source to what a person appears to be fearful of, but that fear permeates everything in a person's existence if psychologically, they've plateaued at a place in their state of conscious awareness that they have never been able to negotiate with or migrate away from.

Their subsequent denial of the truth about anything and everything in life, then spills into every aspect of their lives which then becomes evident as a causal factor for the early onset of vascular dementia among those over 40.

Dementia is no longer considered an 'elderly person's mental illness', but instead is being recognized as a mental state of 'hiding', where a person is consciously aware of everything going on around them, yet pretend they are obtuse in their demeanor as they literally 'hide' within the confines of their fear.

They have to maintain their right-wing facade by denouncing all talk of climate change or else risk losing their lifetime membership to the Donald Trump Club.

Baremine blocked me yesterday because I challenged his perception that public breast-feeding meant that between mother and infant, it was also considered a legal act between himself and his wife in public spaces!