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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Feb 7 17:45:28 2019, in response to Re: Here we go! Global warming., posted by Easy on Thu Feb 7 16:14:15 2019. "But what I meant was whether or not global warming is caused by man."Thats what I question. I'm convinced that global warming is real (just look at the polar ice caps between then & now). A few generations ago, man made pollution filled the air. There were tens of thousands of coal smoke belching steam engines, municipal incenerators staining the air by the thousands took care of all the garbage. Additionally, every apartment house in Woodside where I grew up had their own garbage incinerator (whats a compactor?). Hanging up the laundry to dry on the roof would sometimes require another final rinse. Steel mills in the rust belt cities had their economies judged by how bad the air was. On and on. Yet record cold & snowfall was the rule back then in North America. IIRC in NYC, the lowest ever temperature recorded was -15F sometime in the 30s. Low Central Park winter temps nowadays come nowhere near that. "Old Timers" would tell of hip deep snowfalls that were a commonplace every winter & walking across a frozen Hudson River between Dutchess & Orange Co.s was not all that unusual. My point of all this is that with all the man made junk being pumped in the atmosphere back then, it was much colder & snowier than today. No talk of man made global warming was ever even thought of. IMO, I Say the jury is still out on to what ,if any is the human contribution to global warming. Or is it that the planet is just going thru its astronomically dictated warming/cooling cycle. |
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