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Dude - this is from "WORLD NEWS DAILY" - probably the most right-wing lie machine that has ever been in existence.
Why on earth would you believe a WND over NASA and NOAA?
Here is the correct press release, with the real data
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Right-wing lie machine, left-wing lie machine. Who to believe?
Regardless, your labeling of a source as a "right-wing lie machine" does not necessarily invalidate the points it contains. The satellite data, which is more accurate than ground based data, does not agree that 2014 is the warmest year on record.
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A tree, when it is alive, absorbs CO2 from the air and puts it in the ground. Trees live for decades and even hundreds of years, absorbing CO2 for its entire life.
When a tree dies, it releases some CO2, but left alone, it slowly sinks into the ground like other biomass. Much of the oil we burn today is from plants and trees, not dinosaurs.
When a tree is burned, it releases all of its stored CO2 into the air at once. Deforestation dumps millions of tonnes of CO2 into the air, and makes that space useless for further CO2 absorption in the future.
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Much of that is greatly oversimplified and/or just plain wrong.
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Think "Average".
Nasa and Noaa says that Planet earth is on average, 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), than it was in 1880, when temperature record keeping began.
Of course you will have colder days and warmer days, but the average of the entire planet, is now 1.4 F warmer.
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So what? That is a good thing to most rational people. Would you rather it be 1.4 degrees cooler and return us to the conditions of the Little Ice Age? Warmer is preferable to colder.
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The EPA has little to do with the decrease in the US. Most of the decrease is due to decreased economic activity and the increased use of natural gas over coal. Though I suppose the EPA can take credit for much of the decrease in economic activity.
China has plenty of real environmental problems that it should be focusing on before ever worrying about reducing GHG emissions. But because of people like you they get a pass on the nasty shit as long as they say they are going to reduce CO2.
Blah, blah, blah - always with the "greenhouse gas emissions" bullshit. You are a broken record brainwashed to repeat the same crap over and over.
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