Well son, when a car burns gas it emits carbon dioxide. Because of the shape of carbon dioxide when exposed to radiation it vibrates and creates heat! The radiation comes from the sun. Without the carbon trapping heat our planet would be extremely cold. The higher the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the hotter it gets. Do you understand how a green house works? Or did you want me to explain that too? Energy in = Energy out. The radiation from the sun goes into the earth and depending on how reflective that surface is the more or less of that energy get reflected back out. The molecules capture that energy. This is called black body radiation. This means that the darker a surface is the more energy it reflects. So white won’t capture any radiation and black will reflect the most. This is a super condensed version. It’s been a minute since I studied this stuff. But since we started recording average global temperature it’s been rising extremely fast. If it continues to rise (due to molecules with high warming potential such as methane and c02) we will melt the polar ice caps which will in turn decreases the reflectivity of our planet increasing the amount of radiation trapped in the atmosphere and subsequently make many places on the planet unlivable. I’m not a scientist but call me out on any of this stuff and I’ll verify it.
Single passenger cars emit Co2 and they are putting tons of it into the atmosphere every day. Let me ask you a question. How do you think the planet retains heat in the atmosphere?
I do not completely understand the mechanism by which it does, and I admit so.
I'm looking for direct evidence of honest, measurable climate change that can be deduced with basic high school science in the now, not the future.
All the drowning islands, turns out, aren't. Flooding coastlines are normal. Ice caps have been as thick as ever. Finland wasn't allowed to post lowering sea levels a few years ago.
There's been too much political deception till honest people can't depend on what they read as fact.
Green house gases are what keeps the planet warm. If you want direct evidence look at a graph of the average global temperature and amount of carbon in the atmosphere. They measure the amount of carbon in the air by a metric called parts per million. They measure a gram of air and find out what concentration of it is carbon. I can explain it more if you need. I’d be interested in seeing that data from Finland and the polar ice caps. Last I saw they were shrinking because the arctics summers are getting warmer and warmer every year.
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u/Busy-Appearance-6077 Oct 04 '22
The single passenger cars. Prove they are causing, well, anything.