Global warming is just about Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. This is the single important fact of the scientific model. Carbon Dioxide. The planet's mean temperature is directly correlated with the Carbon content in the atmosphere.
700 million years ago the Earth was a tropical hothouse. There were no polar ice caps. Plankton in the ocean breathed Carbon Dioxide and used the Carbon to build the cell walls. When they died, the Carbon sank to the bottom of the ocean and was not returned to the atmosphere. The dead plankton turned into petroleum.
200 million years ago, land plants appeared and breathed Carbon Dioxide out of the atmosphere to build the cell walls. When the plants died, the Carbon was buried in the Earth and did not return to the atmosphere. Eventually this turned into coal.
For the past 200 years, humanity has dug this Carbon up out of the ground and has returned it to the atmosphere by burning gas and oil. In 200 years, humanity has reversed 700 million years of slow process of Carbon being buried in the ground.
This is all science based. The Carbon content of the atmosphere has been measured continuously for the past 120 years and is dramatically increasing.
These are the simple facts and the basic model. Science.
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As the Carbon was removed from the atmosphere, the planet's mean temperature lowered, until eventually we had an Ice age. As we burn fossil fuels, we return the Carbon to the atmosphere and the planet's mean temperature will rise in direct mathematical correlation.
This is the scientific model, that seems to be mathematically accurate.
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William Schaeffer
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