President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly asserted that climate change is not playing a role in the catastrophic wildfires overtaking forests across the west, rebutting an official briefing him who pleaded for the President listen to the science.”
I don’t think science knows, actually,” Trump said at a Monday briefing with officials in McClellan Park, California, with a laugh.
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- Humans have added an additional 50% of CO2 to the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
- The Earth and moon are the same distance from the sun. Greenhouse gases are the only gases that trap heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. The moon has no greenhouse gases, which is why it doesn’t have a habitable climate.
- Most of the gases in the atmosphere are not greenhouse gases. Oxygen and Nitrogen are about 99% of the atmosphere. This means that the small percentage of greenhouse gases are the only gases capable of providing a stable climate.
- Because greenhouse gases are trace gases, human emissions have a significant impact on their atmospheric concentration.