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Mindwolf · 4063 days ago · link · · parent · post: Sir David Attenborough: Enough With the Creationists and Climate Change Deniers!

There is a lot of conflicting information out there, and a lot of it is placed there by denialists who are directly trying to distort facts.

Here are the facts about the items you listed:

Climate models haven't worked out Climate models have already predicted many of the phenomena for which we now have empirical evidence.

humans only contribute 7% of CO2 in the atmosphere Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year, it adds up because the land and ocean cannot absorb all of the extra CO2. About 40% of this additional CO2 is absorbed. The rest remains in the atmosphere, and as a consequence, atmospheric CO2 is at its highest level in 15 to 20 million years

the greenhouse effect of CO2 is very small we can see that CO2 is adding considerable warming, along with ozone (O3) and methane (CH4). This is called surface radiative forcing, and the measurements are part of the empirical evidence that CO2 is causing the warming.

ideological fascism When looking at peer-reviewed climate publications over the past 20 years that take a position on the cause of global warming, 97 percent agree that humans are responsible.

Here's something important to point out. Any "research skeptical towards anthropogenic climate change" must accurately account for all the data that has been generated in the past 100 years. None do that. It's not fascism, it's following the scientific method. Bad studies get bad peer reviews. It's how the system works.

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