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Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain
25 Jan 2026 12:44 pm
------------------------------Beekeeper » 25 Jan 2026, 8:08 am » wrote: ↑ Here's why NO ONE with any brain cells about 2 believes that "gloBULLwarming" is something we need to worry about. It ranks down around 87 of things that concern people. WHY?? Because of **** LIKE THIS-----
BY 2000 Earth’s Temperature will increase by 7 degrees F and New York and Washington will disappear from Sea Level Rise
In 1969, Daniel Patrick Moynihan sent a one-page memo to a top Nixon advisor on “the carbon dioxide problem.”
“The process is a simple one. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has the effect of a pane of glass in a greenhouse. The CO2 content is normally in a stable cycle, but recently man has begun to introduce instability through the burning of fossil fuels. At the turn of the century several persons raised the question whether this would change the temperature of the atmosphere. Over the years the hypothesis has been refined, and more evidence has come along to support it.”
“It is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO2 content will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter. We have no data on Seattle.” —Memo by Daniel P. Moynihan, September 17, 1969
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmaster ... 969/32205/
Man-made (anthropogenic) climate change is the primary driver of current global warming, with over 99% of scientists agreeing that human activities—chiefly burning fossil fuels—are raising atmospheric greenhouse gas levels. This creates a "blanket effect," trapping heat, causing unprecedented temperature increases, sea-level rise, and extreme weather.