- Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide. [....] The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it?
Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect [....] It has been calculated that a temperature rise corresponding to a 10 per cent increase in carbon dioxide will be sufficient to melt the icecap and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.
Meanwhile, in Russia, they're citing Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: and autumn lingered, long and slow; expecting winter, nature waited -- only in January the snow, night of the second, started flaking. "It's cyclical". "It's just nature".That year the season was belated
Because we are fucking up the entire pattern of weather? The cold air doesn't wanna be in the Arctic anymore so now we get to be its friend I guess. It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this shit out.Or in the US, where it's like 30f/-1c degrees in New Orleans, people are all like "If global warming is real, why's it so cold?"