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The heat goes on: June hottest on record, July may follow

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Scientist warned us for years, and now it's happening. Nothing surprising.

Still waiting for our politicians to wake up to the emergency.

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lmao human beings are doomed

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Global warming is real. The current increase in temperatures is caused largely by the relatively small but building amount of carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere from underground carbon sources. Nature is not absorbing it as fast as we are adding it. So it is building up.

The potential for catastrophic changes in our planet ( our living quarters if you will ) from the use of fossil fuel is nearly certain. Denialism cannot prevent the changes. While we are certain of the cause of the inexorable rise in global surface temperatures, our dependence on fossil fuels is so high that there is no easy solution for us at this point, no easy trade-off that we can make to save humanity.

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from the use of fossil fuel is nearly certain.

And isn't it interesting the scientists saying human actions aren't contributing to climate change are those scientists working for or paid by the global fossil fuel industries. And their financial backers around the globe.

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And isn't it interesting the scientists saying human actions aren't contributing to climate change are those scientists working for or paid by the global fossil fuel industries. And their financial backers around the globe.

That fact isn't even known to the morons trying to pretend climate change isn't a direct result of human actions.

Deplorable. Each and every one of them.

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The last time Europe had temperatures this was about 16 yrs ago, the world isn't falling to pieces carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere that's 400 parts per million and of the 400 parts only 12 parts per million is man made, something so small isn't going to cause problems - relax and enjoy the warm weather, the northern winter will be here soon and everyone will complaining its to cold.

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The last time Europe had temperatures this was about 16 yrs ago

Year-by-year basis is less significant - what matters more is the trend

And trends are better measured by longer periods - for example, here's the global 10-year moving averages (basically, every year, calculate the average temp for the last 10 years)

http://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/LongtermTrend2017.png

This better accounts for yearly anomalies and highlights the trends - and the trend is that the rise in global temp is accelerating (the key note here is not the rise but the acceleration)

carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere that's 400 parts per million and of the 400 parts only 12 parts per million is man made, something so small isn't going to cause problems

Not necessarily. Depending on the circumstances, a small change can make for a big difference For example the human body, some hormones are measured in parts per trillion.

Some hormones are exceptionally potent chemicals that operate at concentrations so low that they can be measured only by the most sensitive analytical methods. When considering hormones such as estradiol, the most potent estrogen, forget parts per million or parts per billion - the concentrations are typically parts per trillion.

(Ex: the striking lifelong differences between a woman looking pretty vs. looking ugly stem from no more than a 35 parts per trillion difference in their exposure to estradiol and a 1 part per billion difference in testosterone. Very small change but very big effect.)

Now, I don't know the circumstances regarding how much effect a small change in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, but it would not be wise to automatically believe that a very small change cannot have a big effect. Remember, like hormones, these are often a result of a series of cascading effects - a change doesn't just affect the first situations, but also the secondary situations after that, and then so on and so on. And they just build up like a snowball rolling downhill.

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The last time Europe had temperatures this was about 16 yrs ago, the world isn't falling to pieces

One last thing, global temperature is not just Europe, so using just Europe in relation to the world temperature is not that useful.

As an example, using the smog of New Delhi to account for all of India's. The smog pollution in New Delhi has been the worst as it's ever been, but the rest of India's cities, the smog pollution has been accelerating even faster, so India's smog problem is actually getting worse instead of stabilizing.

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The Lower 48 states in America were near normal.

Lowest A/C bill in years here. Had to look at it twice to check when it was 20% lower than normal in June.

No question that human activity is involved in climate change, the question for me is how much? In comparison to volcanoes, humans seem tiny.

Humans will either adapt or perish. Other forms of life don't have it that easy.

I'm really worried about the far northern and far southern areas where the rapid changes modify the entire ecology. The few humans living in those places trying to maintain 100 yr old ways of life just cannot when the ground turns to mush and the shortline disappears 20-500m yearly. Polar bears and arctic foxes are getting lost due to the changes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/02/arctic-fox-astounds-scientists-epic-2200-mile-trek-norway-canada/

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