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In reply to the discussion: Watching ABC news.......what the hell is going on with the weather??? [View all]Think. Again.
(22,330 posts)21. Is that satire, sarcasm, or a weak attempt to pretend we didn't know what we are causing?
We've known the weather would be drastically affected by CO2 emission-caused climate change since the 1800's.
This 19th century woman was one of the first scientists to understand climate change
Jul 29, 2021
Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/scientists-physics-climate-change-eunice-foote/
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-
1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of todays climate change crisis.
The year was 1856. Footes brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat the driving force of global warming.
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Foote conducted a simple experiment. She put a thermometer in each of two glass cylinders, pumped carbon dioxide gas into one and air into the other and set the cylinders in the Sun. The cylinder containing carbon dioxide got much hotter than the one with air, and Foote realized that carbon dioxide would strongly absorb heat in the atmosphere.
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A few years later, in 1861, the well-known Irish scientist John Tyndall also measured the heat absorption of carbon dioxide and was so surprised that something so transparent to light could so strongly absorb heat that he made several hundred experiments with this single substance.
Tyndall also recognized the possible effects on the climate, saying every variation of water vapor or carbon dioxide must produce a change of climate. He also noted the contribution other hydrocarbon gases, such as methane, could make to climate change, writing that an almost inappreciable addition of gases like methane would have great effects on climate.
Jul 29, 2021
Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/scientists-physics-climate-change-eunice-foote/
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-
1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of todays climate change crisis.
The year was 1856. Footes brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat the driving force of global warming.
-snip-
Foote conducted a simple experiment. She put a thermometer in each of two glass cylinders, pumped carbon dioxide gas into one and air into the other and set the cylinders in the Sun. The cylinder containing carbon dioxide got much hotter than the one with air, and Foote realized that carbon dioxide would strongly absorb heat in the atmosphere.
-snip-
A few years later, in 1861, the well-known Irish scientist John Tyndall also measured the heat absorption of carbon dioxide and was so surprised that something so transparent to light could so strongly absorb heat that he made several hundred experiments with this single substance.
Tyndall also recognized the possible effects on the climate, saying every variation of water vapor or carbon dioxide must produce a change of climate. He also noted the contribution other hydrocarbon gases, such as methane, could make to climate change, writing that an almost inappreciable addition of gases like methane would have great effects on climate.
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Watching ABC news.......what the hell is going on with the weather??? [View all]
a kennedy
Jun 2024
OP
I reject your personal attack. merely stating a fact that is not disputed anywhere I know of. nt
msongs
Jun 2024
#39
It's not a personal attack. Merely stating a fact that you've echoed a sentiment that I've seen elsewhere.
Orrex
Jun 2024
#69
Yeah, all of the rains have been going northwards towards you guys. Send some our way (STLMO)...we're
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2024
#11
As long as we can buy cheap gas and trinkets, to hell with the survival of human race.
Irish_Dem
Jun 2024
#15
The earth is 4.5 billion years old. How many times have humans done this to themselves?
Irish_Dem
Jun 2024
#20
I was reading about the record heat in Saudi Arabia, hundreds have died of the heat.
Archae
Jun 2024
#50
Have you been hearing about climate change? Well, this is the beginning of it.
marybourg
Jun 2024
#13
Most people hate cold weather as they age. I am the opposite. I hate, hate, hate ultra-hot weather...
hlthe2b
Jun 2024
#14
In Central Maine, winters are getting easier to deal with. We ha 3 or 4 snow events then the weather moves into Spring.
OAITW r.2.0
Jun 2024
#55
Is that satire, sarcasm, or a weak attempt to pretend we didn't know what we are causing?
Think. Again.
Jun 2024
#21
There are more heat records than cold temperature records, and it's not even close, sometimes by a factor of 10 to 1
tornado34jh
Jun 2024
#32
Welcome to climate change. Hotter is hotter, and longer. Usually less cold, but sometimes colder because more energy
Martin68
Jun 2024
#58
Its has been over 90 for seveal days here in Ohio. I remember back around 1987 it
doc03
Jun 2024
#66
I'm pretty sure climate change will be how our population loses 4-5 billion
Calculating
Jun 2024
#102