Explain global warming to me, scientifically, in your own words
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Fact #1: CO2 radiates heat. This is an observable fact.
Fact #2: The greenhouse gas effect is real due to #1 and many other gases in our atmosphere with similar properties. It is what enables life on our planet to exist.
Fact #3: Atmospheric CO2 levels have risen over 30% in just the last 50 years alone due predominantly to the burning of fossil fuels that resided in their solid and liquid carbon forms in the earth's crust. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #4: The upper atmosphere is cooling while the lower atmosphere is warming. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #5: Night time temperatures are rising faster than day time temperatures. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #6: Facts #4 and #5 wouldn't be true if something such as the sun (or anytjing external to our planet) were the reason why our planet is warming.
Fact #7: We've measured how much external heat radiation our planet receives and how much heat radiation our planet radiates back out to space. Even with the absence of our very real temperature measurements on the surface of our planet, we know and observe that our planet is retaining more of the external heat our planet receives each year.
Fact #8: Due to the above facts, we know that the reason for the warming of our lower atmosphere (an observable fact) is due to the changes in composition of the atmosphere itself.
Even if you wanted to come up with your own theory as to why our planet is warming that doesn't involve humans as the main reason, you'd still need to explain the causes of the very real and observable facts listed above. Human driven climate change as a result of burning fossil fuels is the only theory that does this.
You can argue about the outcomes or potential second order of effects that might result from all of this; such as whether the AMOC is weakening or the timeline for arctic land ice melting, etc.
But arguing that climate change is not real, is not occurring, or that humans are not the main driver is arguing against a mountain of factual and observable evidence. It is akin to arguing that the planet is flat.
Fact #2: The greenhouse gas effect is real due to #1 and many other gases in our atmosphere with similar properties. It is what enables life on our planet to exist.
Fact #3: Atmospheric CO2 levels have risen over 30% in just the last 50 years alone due predominantly to the burning of fossil fuels that resided in their solid and liquid carbon forms in the earth's crust. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #4: The upper atmosphere is cooling while the lower atmosphere is warming. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #5: Night time temperatures are rising faster than day time temperatures. This is an observable and measurable fact.
Fact #6: Facts #4 and #5 wouldn't be true if something such as the sun (or anytjing external to our planet) were the reason why our planet is warming.
Fact #7: We've measured how much external heat radiation our planet receives and how much heat radiation our planet radiates back out to space. Even with the absence of our very real temperature measurements on the surface of our planet, we know and observe that our planet is retaining more of the external heat our planet receives each year.
Fact #8: Due to the above facts, we know that the reason for the warming of our lower atmosphere (an observable fact) is due to the changes in composition of the atmosphere itself.
Even if you wanted to come up with your own theory as to why our planet is warming that doesn't involve humans as the main reason, you'd still need to explain the causes of the very real and observable facts listed above. Human driven climate change as a result of burning fossil fuels is the only theory that does this.
You can argue about the outcomes or potential second order of effects that might result from all of this; such as whether the AMOC is weakening or the timeline for arctic land ice melting, etc.
But arguing that climate change is not real, is not occurring, or that humans are not the main driver is arguing against a mountain of factual and observable evidence. It is akin to arguing that the planet is flat.
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