11-24-2016, 09:15 AM
(11-23-2016, 09:36 PM)chuck white Wrote: Sorry Wonky,
This particular data set only goes back to 1978.
Too bad they didn't launch satellites a 100 years earlier.
Again, I think you may be missing the point. When early man first started turning the ground to plant, he released carbon (albeit, different from the exhaust of a Ford pickup) and so "man" started fouling our atmosphere long ago. Not much of a problem when there were, maybe, a couple of million people on the planet. But starting with the Industrial Revolution and the burning of coal, we got really serious about it. Add people in the billlions and it's more than just "a problem".
So, it's been going on for a long time.
Now accelerated, we are living "in" the effects.
My point in responding to your post was that to focus on events happening now dismiss the overall historical events that bring us to this point. And the most important thing about all this information is not that it's happening (we know it already) but what "we" are going to do to attempt to live with it. If anything.
Have grandchildren?
Pray.