CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T HAPPEN NATURALLY

Climate change is a real and pressing problem. Many people think it's naturally happening, but there's considerable evidence to the contrary.

There's no evidence that human-caused climate change exists, according to this comment. In fact, I found it so offensive that it made my eye twitch. But then I considered that I'm an educator, and it all makes sense,There was a time not so long ago when you didn't understand this particular thing,You recall that each of us has unique levels of education and experience, which often result from complex ideas such as this one. These boundaries and limitations are often the result of larger issues outside of our control. Misunderstandings or failures to understand are just as common as a desire to learn.It's evident to you that many things we take for granted today were once unknown or underestimated. And that those who hold climate denial beliefs are not the only ones with such views. So, in keeping with that sentiment.Let us take this opportunity to learn and understand more about what we're dealing with, so that we can reduce our ignorance and expand our understanding. This will help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

%Natural forces influence climate change. This has been true throughout Earth's history and it still holds true today. Climate scientists know this, by studying these natural climate-changing forces we %understand much of what we do about human-caused climate change.%Climate scientists are aware of these natural cycles, so all %of the% climate models they use today take into account the effects of these cycles.%As a result, every %of the% climate models used by climate scientists today factors in these natural forces.climate models can only approximate what is happening in the climate, if they are supplemented by the actions of humans,Climate change has increased in speed and scale since the start of the industrial revolution, in particular from the second half of the 20th century to today. To explain this, we have to add one more factor to the equation: us%.

We're going to talk about Earth's climate in broad terms and look at how certain things can affect it. We'll explore the natural forces that scientists know a lot about and how they can push Earth's climate one way or the other. And finally, we'll explain how we know that what's happening now to Earth's climate is not due to those forces, but because of us.%The temperature of Earth begins with the sun% - a gigantic ball of jiggling stuff called the sun. %Thermodynamic principles are complex, but you now know enough to understand global warming or we can say The temperature of Earth begins with the sun. When the sun's energy is transferred to Earth, it causes the planet's atoms to vibrate more and raise its temperature. Knowing thermodynamics is essential to understanding global warming.%The sunlight% takes a roughly %eight minutes trip to %Earth, where right of the bat about a third is reflected back into space by stuff like clouds and ice. Most of the rest is absorbed by the land and ocean, a small amount is absorbed directly by molecules in atmosphere. All of this absorbed energy heats up our air, water and land. It basically makes all of Earth's atomic stuff more jiggly. But as all that stuff-rocks, air, oceans, warms up, they can transfer their heat to other stuff, in the form of thermal infrared radiation energy, the stuff _The Predator can see_. So as land, for instance, gives off energy it originally got from sunlight, that energy zips up into atmosphere where it's absorbed by water vapor and other gases like carbon dioxide and methane. But this is also where things really start to warm up, because these are those greenhouse gases you've heard so much about. And they're special because when any of that energy that Earth absorbs and then re-releases hits a greenhouse gas molecule, it can suck it right up and re-radiate it, warming the atmosphere and the land and the ocean and everything else..

because if we had no greenhouse effect, the average temperature on Earth would be more like -18 degree Celsius instead of the comfy 15 degree Celsius that it is today. In other words, we'd live on an ice planet. Or not live, more like it. Of course, on the other hand, if there's extra greenhouse effect, like say, from the addition of a bunch more Greenhouse Gases to the atmosphere, then you get, well, what's happening today. The planet gets hotter, the air, the land, the water, all of it. And like the little domino in that one meme, what seems like a tiny change here to Earth's temperature, down the line can mess up some pretty big things%%, wind, ocean currents%, precipitation%, you name it.You can think of all this energy transfer%%, from sun to land and ocean to atmosphere%%, back to land and ocean%%, and all the little energy swaps in between%%, well it's kinda like trickle down economics%, only it actually works%. When you think about it%, Earth's climate works kind of like a business%. You've got budgets and inventories. Just like with money beetle earth's energy budget is the balance of what comes in from the sun and what goes out into space over a certain amount of time%. Whether that budget is positive or negative%%, gaining or losing impacts the total energy inventory on Earth%. Basically%%, if Earth's not selling enough energy back into space%%, it's gonna end up with excess inventory. Only in this case%, it's not a warehouse full of rubber duckies or pandemic Pelotons$, it's energy that is heating up land%, air%), and ocean a lot.

There are several things that can affect the way Earth's atmosphere warm

up or cool down, and while these events have happened in the past, they're not happening now.

Scientists have been monitoring the sun and its brightness, and this data tells them that the Earth is not experiencing any recent warming.One reason that Earth's average temperature has gone up is that the sun has been getting brighter over the past few decades. However, this is not happening now, because scientists have been looking at the sun.

Don't let them trick you into accepting the status quo,

that as we sit down to drink our coffee

in the middle of a burning world,

that this is all somehow actually fine.

Because it isn't fine. And it isn't normal.

Because what they really want you to forget

is that if we are the cause of all this,

then we can be the solution too.

Don't you forget that.