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To: i-node who wrote (1122400)	3/3/2019 12:41:49 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

"If you can't explain something in simple terms, you do not understand it." There are invisible gases in the sky. One of them is called carbon dioxide. One of the physical properties of this invisible gas is that it slows down the transmission of heat to outer space, making the planet warmer. We are adding more of this gas to the sky because we are digging up fossil carbon (coal, oil, and natural gas) and burning it in the presence of oxygen to power our civilization. As the sky heats up, the water it contacts warms, too. There's lots of water, and it stores heat much better than the air does, so the oceans are also warming. IIRC, the increase in temperature produced by doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the sky was predicted in 1896 to be 1.5-4.5 degrees. Today, it's still just about the same range. Simple enuf?