By the late 1800s, according to a USA Today article, scientists had already figured out that burning coal could “enhance” the Greenhouse Effect- the process that works to keep the planet warm.
Measurements taken in 1958 revealed what was the beginning of a steady rise in CO2 levels.
The term “global warming” was first used in a 1975 paper where one Wallace Broecker asked the question …”Are we on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” In 1998, Broecker added, “The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.”
In 2023, there have been headlines touting worldwide temps having been the highest in the last 125,000 years. Canada has been on fire all summer, the air everywhere has been unhealthy and dangerous to breathe, the Atlantic Ocean temperature off Florida reached 90 degrees, and has gotten to 100 degrees in the shallower depths.
Hurricanes can be sustained when the water temp hits 80 degrees.
The combination of an El Nino and warming led to devastating flooding in… Vermont, among other places. Now the wildfires on Maui have decimated Lahaina and taken at least 53 lives, and most likely more.
I suppose someone could look at all this and pass it off as just a perfect storm of rare occurrences happening in the same year all over the planet…
They probably have a white collar job at Exxon, represent the good people of West Virginia, or just believe every word that comes from the mouth of the average Republican on Capitol Hill.
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