Not looking for a political argument. I need facts. I am in no way a climate change denier, but I had a conversation with someone who told me the average increase is only 2°F over the past 100 years. That doesn’t seem like a lot and would support the argument that the climate goes through waves of changes naturally over time.
I’m going to run into him tomorrow and I need some ammo to support the climate change argument. Is it the rate of change that’s increasing that makes it dangerous? Is 2° enough to cause a lot of polar ice caps to melt? I need some facts to counter his. Thanks!
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It takes energy to heat a cup of coffee by 1°C
It takes twice as much energy to heat two cups of coffee by 1°C
It takes way more energy to heat a bath by 1°C
To heat THE WORLD by 1°C? That takes an unthinkable amount of energy. All that energy, trapped in the sky.
Considering that everything the sky likes to do with energy can be destructive, we should be mindful about the energy we are giving it.
Now that we’ve given it 1°C worth of energy, will we give it that much energy a second or third time? It’s probably not wise to heat it by 3°C (which is currently the path that we are on).
It would not be the end of the world, but it would entail the sky doing more stuff. Stronger winds, more intense storms, hotter summers. Anything that you’ve know the sky to do, it uses energy to do that. More energy, more doing.
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