THE FREAKING MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS DRYING UP.

[Duppers]

24. Tragic but not hopeless if folks can admit it's anthropogenic.

Evidence:

Simple chemistry – When we burn carbon-based materials, carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted (research beginning in the 1900s).

Basic accounting of what we burn, and therefore how much CO2 we emit (data collection beginning in the 1970s).

Measuring CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and trapped in ice to find they are increasing, with levels higher than anything we've seen in nearly a million years (measurements beginning in the 1950s).

Chemical analysis of the atmospheric CO2 that reveals the increase is coming from burning fossil fuels (research beginning in the 1950s).

Basic physics that shows us that CO2 absorbs heat (research beginning in the 1820s).

Monitoring climate conditions to find that the air, sea and land is warming, as we would expect with rising greenhouse gas emissions; as a response, ice is melting and sea level is rising (research beginning in the 1930s).

Ruling out natural factors that can influence climate like the sun and ocean cycles (research beginning in the 1830s).

Employing computer models to run experiments of natural versus human-influenced simulations of Earth (research beginning in the 1960s).

Consensus among scientists who consider all previous lines of evidence and make their own conclusions (polling beginning in the 1990s).

Sadly, there are still many people who don't believe we are causing this.