Global Warming

@chummer said in #15:
> Imagine arctic ice decreasing decade after decade, and the fact that it's roughly half of what it was in 1980 is somehow inconsequential because it hasn't disappeared completely.
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> Or that virtually every nation and 99% of all peer reviewed published articles show anthropogenic climate change is happening and an existential threat.
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> But keep on thinking your chucklefuck youtube video and cherry picked statistics mean a damned thing, @Blue_Sirius - I'll be happy to revise my opinion if you have an article written with data and modeling though.

You are right. This is a threat because this will start affecting us and animals if not already.

If you just think about it:
Global warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the earth's surface during the last century. One of the reasons why global warming is dangerous is because it disturbs the overall ecology of the planet. This results in floods, famine, cyclones and other issues.
Plus it will affect us+animals

@Xtronplayer1234 said in #21:
> You are right. This is a threat because this will start affecting us and animals if not already.

Katie Collins of the Museum of Martial History says, 'The current rate of extinction is between 100 and 1,000 times higher than the pre-human background rate of extinction, which is jaw-dropping. We are definitely going through a sixth mass extinction.'
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html

The trend between CO2 and temperature is clear: see the Keeling curve. While things like coal combustion do cool the planet in the short term due to reflective particles being released into the atmosphere, in the long term they cause temperature increase due the CO2 released during combustion via the greenhouse effect.

Right now it may seem like nothing, but this will in increase in the future.

Just keep it below 2C!