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newest-reddit-user t1_j403oky wrote

Reply to comment by Rear-gunner in Controversial Proposal to Reduce Global Warming Could Threaten Ozone Regeneration by Rear-gunner

It's disputed in the same way that some people think the Earth is flat.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j40836v wrote

In my experience, global warming has become politicized, and opinions on its reality vary. Reasoning and technology have not provided a definitive solution to the debate, so a rift exists. Some will argue that the causes of global warming cannot be based on computerized models with their problems but needs real scientific evidence. I have also noticed that much depends on the ocean temperatures, which have yet to be fully measured.

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newest-reddit-user t1_j41ifaj wrote

It definitely has become politicized. It doesn't follow that there is a reasonable disagreement. If conservatives decided one day that the shape of the Earth was very important for them ideologically, it wouldn't thereby make disagreements about it reasonable.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j43kzyy wrote

The shape of the earth can be seen and measured, that cause of global warming cannot be, that is my point

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newest-reddit-user t1_j45s7qm wrote

We know what happens when the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases. We know that because we know the relevant chemical properties of CO2 that we can measure in the lab and we know how much CO2 there was in the atmosphere the past and what happened. We also know roughly how much CO2 we are releasing into the atmosphere.

It's not complicated, even if the details are.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j466ebj wrote

I think you will find that there is dispute over whether it's the CO2 or other gases

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newest-reddit-user t1_j46ixd9 wrote

What I said does not preclude that there are other greenhouse gases.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j46nfzu wrote

There is a dispute about what is the most important for global warming

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