Climate Change Denier comes in from the cold: SCIENCE!!!

Increases to small numbers is still small numbers. If you have a massive headwound and a hangnail, which one are you going to treat first?Developing technology and policies that reduce carbon emissions from cars will have a much bigger impact than boats. When you have limited resources you look for the biggest bang for the buck. We all lost our ability to freely use leaded gasoline, and we survived. We also lost the freedom to use ozone depleting CFC's, and we survived once again.Just imagine how you will suffer if you start getting electricity from hydropower . . . EGADS!!! You poor suffering soul. I can't imagine the pain you will go through.

This may be a bit controversial in some crowds, but . . .Second Act. Start building nuclear power plants again. Invest in research into new nuclear technologies. We need baseline power, and nuclear can fill that role.

That's false.

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During this week’s crisis, natural gas plants tripped offline as equipment froze, both at power facilities themselves and at wellheads, leading to a drop-off in supplies, experts said. Tripping is the sudden and often unexpected cutting off of a power facility's connection to the grid, similar to a circuit breaker.
Here's why gas and coal went offline during the Texas cold weather catastrophe | Washington Examiner

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Those plants failed because they weren't protected against freezing temperatures. We are all well aware of the current dependence on fossil fuels. Supporting the replacement of fossil fuels in no way indicates that we don't understand our current dependence on fossil fuels. Show us a single Democrat that prevented the winterization of the Texas power grid. Just one. If you can't, then admit you are wrong.

It was fossil fuel power plants failing that created the sharp increase in demand that caused the still functioning fossil fuel power plants to shut down. Then you need to reread those posts. Simply saying that all fossil fuel power plants could be replaced by other types of fuel is the truth. It also doesn't cast any doubt on our dependence on fossil fuels at this very moment. It was a mixture of Republicans and plant owners. Republicans threw away regulations that would have required plant operators to winterize. Those same policies also resulted in the loss of connections with surrounding states. The plant owners decided they wanted more profit, so they didn't make the changes they needed to.You are claiming that it is the Democrats fault, somehow. Care to explain?

Scientists predicted that increasing atmospheric CO2 would lead to an overall increase in global temperatures. Hypothesis supported by overwhelming evidence.

marc9000 writes: Don't mind if I do. You might remember this famous statement of Obama's;

How did Obama prevent those power plants in Texas from winterizing? Please be specific.

Temperature is still going up, despite the lies coming from the deniers.

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Did global warming stop in 1998?

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No, but thanks to natural variability, volcanic eruptions, and relatively low solar activity, the rate of average global surface warming from 1998-2012 was slower than it had been for two to three decades leading up to it.

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How much slower depends on the fine print: which global temperature dataset you look at, whether it includes the Arctic, and the exact time periods you compare. Regardless, the big picture of long-term global warming remained unchanged.

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Those who deny the scientific evidence of human-caused global warming turned the slowdown into a slogan: “Global warming stopped in 1998.” In scientific journals and assessment reports, climate experts described the episode as a “pause” or “hiatus” in the previous decades’ rapid warming: they knew it wouldn’t last.

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Not only was 1998-2012 the warmest 15-year period on record at the time, but greenhouse gases continued to climb to new record highs, and other climate indicators continued to show the impacts of long-term, global-scale warming: subsurface ocean heating, global sea level rise, the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and record-low Arctic sea ice extent.

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Did global warming stop in 1998? | NOAA Climate.gov

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And a more recent dataset:And just to add a bit more, historic CO2 levels over the last few glaciation cycles:Natural levels of CO2 bounce between 180 and 300 ppm. The graph above is a bit old since it only shows a modern level of 380 ppm. As of today, we are at 420 ppm.The current atmosphere has a 40% excess of CO2, a greenhouse gas. In fact, we've known about how CO2 acts as a greenhouse gas since the late 1800's. Guess what happens when you increase the concentration of a greenhouse gas in a planet's atmosphere? You trap more heat. Surely a user with the name of ChemEngineer knows this (or not, who knows).

I would assume that it is similar to how an ice skater increases their spin rate by pulling their arms in. In this case, it would be pushing the arms out to slow the spin. If you move the ice from the poles and to the equator then that should slow Earth's rotation. By how much, who knows, but at least by some measurable amount even if it is in the nanosecond range.