Jim Morin for October 11, 2017

The House Environmental “destruction” Committee has been at this since the R’s took majority. Destroying or selling off the taxpayers lands and resources to the LOWEST bidder has been their prime directive from corporate circles.

But climate change is an expensive hoax. Just ask the trumpster aka the greatest climatologist.

If you are tired of Republicans destroying America, stop voting for them.

JLocke, you’re a riot!

But Trump is on the job! With the saber rattling with North Korea, it would take 100 Hiroshima size nukes to bring on a nuclear winter. (15-kiloton bombs, which are considered small by modern standards.)

The strength of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is unknown, though the latest weapon it tested was estimated to be in the range of 20 to 30 kilotons. The US and Russia each possess weapons 1,000 times as powerful as these.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-explosions-earth-atmosphere-temperature-2017-8

Repost: @JohnSullivan1: Just because you believe it doesn’t make it true.

The reason we know there IS human-caused global warming is because Earth’s temperatures are NOT in line with normal cycles. We are in a solar cooling cycle, for example. Suggesting (as you implicitly do) that scientists have somehow ignored normal cycles and the SUN is simply at odds with the facts.

To see human impact, google “Asian Brown Cloud.” Check images. This is a massive cloud of pollution hanging over China and India, 100% human caused. It causes measurable differences in local weather and local microclimates. Now multiply by centuries of fossil fuel use, deforestation, etc.

Here’s another picture to examine: Changes in global forest cover. You might have to scroll down a bit. WE did that. Reduction in forests means reduced absorption of CO2. http://idaholyoaks3.blogspot.com/2012/11/understanding-climate-change-part-6.html

We know how much CO2 HUMANS pump into the atmosphere per year: just over 10 peta-grams, or 10 gigatons of carbon per year. That is a substantial number!

The famous “hockey-stick” measure of CO2 in the atmosphere has been ***THOROUGHLY*** validated by scores of scientists and studies, including some done by skeptics who have since accepted the data, e.g., Richard Muller, who was one of the few legitimate and respected climate scientists who was a skeptic UNTIL HE LOOKED AT THE DATA to his own satisfaction. He says quite explicitly that he was wrong, based on data – a true scientist! https://climatecrocks.com/2015/01/09/richard-muller-i-was-wrong-on-global-warming/

And just to be clear: the relationship between CO2 and atmospheric warmth isn’t new. Svante Arrhenius made an estimate back in 1896 (yes, EIGHTEEN ninety-six), long before we even had decent atomic physics, let alone today’s many observational tools and advanced research methods and an additional century and a quarter of data — and his estimate was pretty good. It isn’t even hard.

Just for JS1. A cartoon, even he might understand (with explanations)!

1732: Earth Temperature Timeline

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732

This is an excellent toon Morin, I’d like to see the Anti-State Federal Department, the U.S. Agency for International Destruction and the Department of Ignorance headed up by DeVos.

The EPA is in the hands of a greedy and ignorant corporate shill who does not care a wit about the environment.

Oklahoma earthquakes anybody?

If you are tired of Republicans destroying America, stop voting for them.