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            No argument can disprove the fact that sulfur and nitrogen oxides released into the air create acids that harm our environment.  But what about greenhouse gasses?  

It is common knowledge that greenhouse gasses trap infrared light (which is heat energy) and this is why a greenhouse stays warm.  Visible and infrared light pass through the glass of the greenhouse and are converted into infrared (heat) energy to produce heat energy that doesn't escape the greenhouse.     

Greenhouse gasses include vaporized water, carbon dioxide and  methane.  These gasses interact with solar radiation and cause a frequency shift that converts light energy into infrared rays.  Naturally occurring greenhouse gasses are released by animals, and volcanoes.  Burning carbon fuels produce large amounts of CO2 which is a greenhouse gas.   So why blame greenhouse gasses for the rise global temperatures?

The answer is that mankind has tapped into a new source of carbon by using fossil fuels that normally stays sequestered below ground.  The carbon dioxide released by so called fossil fuels thus introduces carbon into the atmosphere which will not then be returned to a sequestered area such as a coal mine or underground oil deposit.  Plants recycle the carbon they produce turning it into starches and sugars and wood.  Thus the carbon from plants is called renewable.  Fossil fuels represent nonrenewable sources of carbon because no natural process is currently available to return this carbon below the ground.

Scientists are able to measure the average concentrations of greenhouse gasses and they are on the rise.  It is the excessive amounts of greenhouse gasses which are causing this increase in the amount of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere.  It is this which is causing the average temperature of our planet to rise.  We are overloading our atmosphere with nonrenewable carbon dioxide.  The additional tons of CO2 released in the consumption of fossil fuels is what is tipping the scale and causing a rise in atmospheric and ocean temperatures.  

It is obvious that as this process continues, mankind and all life on earth will be forced to adapt to the resulting transformation.  Rising sea levels will flood the coasts and low islands will be lost like Atlantis.  New weather patterns will threaten us in ways we can only imagine.  Let’s find a way to start reversing the rise in greenhouse gasses.  Each of us can try to reduce the use of fossil fuels and elect representatives that at least acknowledge that global warming has a cause and we are it.

It is so disheartening to hear politicians dispute scientific facts.  These are the ones who pull out a fiddle and watch Rome burn.  They think only of immediate profits and ignore the great reckoning that global warming portends.

Do you have any opinion about global warming?  Do you think it is just a hoax?

By the way I love this stamp.  Look closely at the cancellation marks to see a Christmas greeting.

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Taken on: March 3, 2019

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