• Question: is global warming complete hogwash?

    Asked by kizibou-bubble-boy to Stephen, Stephanie on 8 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by chicken~pop.
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      Stephen Twomlow answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Now that is a good question and one that our dear friend the American President Donald Trump did agree with early in his presidency. – as he feared it might cost American industry a great deal of monies. However, he appears to be mellowing in his views and his willing to accept that there is a change in global weather patterns and there appears to be an increased frequency in extreme rainfall events – both too much and too little as once stable global air currents get moved north or south at different times of the year-remember all of the rain the UK had in December 2015 – that was because the trans atlantic jet stream moved and was catching moister air from the America, then we get dramatic shifts in temperature….

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      Stephanie Mann answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      Global warming is a fact: the earth has been increasing in average temperatures since the 1950s. And in fact 16 of the hottest years ever on record have been since the year 2000. The place where scientists used to disagree was on how much it was due to human activity. But these days the science is clear: global warming is real and mostly due to human emissions, and will get worse if we don’t drastically change how much we emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases!

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    Stephanie commented on :

    Global warming is absolutely a fact, temperatures have been increasing steadily since the early 1900s. A few years ago climate scientists disagreed about WHY the world was warming, some said it was completely natural and part of a cycle and others said it was because of human activity.

    These days the science is clear: global warming is real and it’s largely due to human related emissions of greenhouse gases