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roamer65

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7. The Earth is about 2.5 million miles closer to the Sun during Southern Hemisphere summer.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 04:46 AM

Jan 2019

More intense solar radiation on an atmosphere increasingly loaded with CO2.

Australia will become uninhabitable first, then Southern Africa.

Changing the composition of our atmosphere is akin to moving the planets “Goldilocks zone”.

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'It's like hell here': Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C [View all] demmiblue Jan 2019 OP

Awful. nycbos Jan 2019 #1

Same here. demmiblue Jan 2019 #3

Same with me. nycbos Jan 2019 #5

so the "Chinese hoax" has spread? Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #2

Mass fish death dalton99a Jan 2019 #4

K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #6

The Earth is about 2.5 million miles closer to the Sun during Southern Hemisphere summer. roamer65 Jan 2019 #7

You can thank the climate denying tRump. Joe941 Jan 2019 #8

The denying has been going on for decades Raine Jan 2019 #10

Obama wasn't a denier. Joe941 Jan 2019 #14

The media should be covering this, MSNBC, CNN, FOX Raine Jan 2019 #9

Bats are passing out from the heat. Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #11

republican lies about climate change are dangerous for US & and the world Achilleaze Jan 2019 #12

50C equals 122F VOX Jan 2019 #13