eli5 warming world

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So I’m not a climate denier I’m just wondering if the world warming was inevitable. I thought I remembered from school that “winter” is left over from the last ice age. If true wouldn’t the world be warming anyway? With or without human interference? Or is it just we are helping it along at a much quicker rate?

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It is true that the world naturally warms and cools over long periods of time however the issue is that we have seen the temperature increase drastically over the last 40 years. So fast that wildlife has not has time to adapt or learn ways to combat the change. So yes basically we are forcing climate change even though it does happen naturally.

Take a planet like venus, its very thick carbon dioxide atmosphere keeps it hot all-over, even on the nightside of the planet its over 400^(o)C. Now replace that toasty coat with earths atmosphere and it drops to 70^(o)C. venus is also further from the sun than mercury and still hotter. This last bit isn’t relevant but it does display the effects of carbon dioxide.

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