Of course wildfires are adding to smog and unhealthy air.
Do you know what study you need to know that? Seeing the smoke.

And wildfires are indeed ALSO increasing the global CO₂ emissions
AND reducing natures capacity to ABSORB CO₂.

"Now if they would study volcano's impact..."
WHAT "IF"? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!
That you can still say something THIS IGNORANT, after so much discussion on this topic, that really baffles me.
Scientists are studying the effect of volcanoes DILIGENTLY.
A detailed atmospheric study of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption found that fine particles and sulfur dioxide, SO₂, increased significantly even 300 km away from the volcano.
They did not create global smog.

Smog is mostly related to the burning of fossil fuels. Don't you remember the news during Covid lockdowns? Cities like Delhi, Los Angeles, and Beijing reported clear skies for the first time in decades. This happened because traffic and industrial activity collapsed, not because of changes in natural emissions.

Volcanoes are about 1% of the global CO₂ emissions, see below.

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Now what is causing all those wildfires?
How about forests turning to a extremely dry tinderbox regularly?
Wildfires are indeed adding to the global CO₂ emissions. The frequency of wildfires is increasing, BECAUSE of climate change. Over the past two to three decades, CO₂ emissions from forest wildfires have surged dramatically. Global CO₂ emissions from forest fires have increased by 60% since 2001. Emissions from vast northern boreal forests (spanning Eurasia and North America) nearly tripled between 2001 and 2023, largely due to increasingly hot and dry conditions.

Based on the most recent global wildfire CO₂ datasets, the year with the largest global CO₂ emissions from wildfires in the satellite era (2003–2025) is 2003, with global emissions peaking at roughly 4.6 billion tonnes of CO₂. Human activity emitted about 27.64 billion tonnes of CO₂ in 2003 from fossil‑fuel combustion and industrial processes.
From 2003–2025, global wildfire CO₂ emissions averaged about 2.1–2.3 billion tonnes CO₂ per year, while human activity averaged about 34–36 billion tonnes CO₂ per year. Wildfires therefore contributed roughly 6–7% of annual anthropogenic emissions over this period.

The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) is the primary global professional association for volcanologists. Under its umbrella operates WOVO (The World Organization of Volcano Observatories). WOVO links together all the localized volcano observatories on Earth (like the USGS, Italy's INGV, or Indonesia's PVMBG). They manage WOVOdat, a massive global database that compiles tracking data—such as seismic activity, gas emissions, and ground deformation from active volcanoes to help scientists spot patterns and forecast future eruptions.
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When looking at the graph, you will notice a massive spike in the number of recorded eruptions as you approach the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Volcanologists emphasize that this spike does NOT mean the Earth is experiencing more volcanic activity. Instead, it represents our dramatic improvement in OBSERVATION technology, including global satellite tracking, seismology networks, and global communication, which allows us to document smaller, remote eruptions that would have gone completely unnoticed in ancient history.

Volcanoes impact the climate by spewing sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, which combines with water to form sulfate aerosols that reflect sunlight back into space. This causes short-term global COOLING (e.g., eruptions like Mount Pinatubo dropped global temperatures for a year or two). Volcanic eruptions spew out lava, carbon dioxide ( CO₂ ) ash and particles. The average volcanic CO₂ emissions are less than 1% of emissions from current human activities.

I have shown you the IPCC Assessment Reports before. It deals with volcano activity in multiple sections.
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They present their 'studies' of ALL the possible natural causes and ALL the possible human activity related with climate changes, as far back as there is evidence related to all of those causes. Of course, they don't have to assess the impact of human activity from periods that humans were basically living like animals. Human activity only became a factor at the earliest around 8000 years ago, when human populations started to clear forests for primitive agriculture. However, back then, the global human population was roughly 5–20 million people, we are now with about 8.30 billion people, and we have Energy production, Industry, Agriculture, Transportation and Land‑use change, which accumulate to about 90% of the global human emissions of greenhouse gasses. And that global effect of humans DWARFS ALL the natural effects on the climate. Only the sun and the orbit of Earth around the sun can have larger effects, but scientists can very accurately measure this, and they know 100% sure that this is NOT causing the current climate change.

Basically, the global average temperature of Earth is governed by a simple energy-balance equation: energy absorbed from the Sun vs. energy emitted back to space.
The energy that is produced by the sun is pretty damn stable in general. It is only changing over many millions to billions of years. Besides that, it has a cycle, which is has been studied for a very long time. It also has slight variations and outbursts, which are also studied and recorded in high accuracy. Then we have the orbit of Earth around the sun. Earth’s orbit has caused major climate changes in the past, including the pacing of the Ice Ages, through what scientists call Milankovitch cycles. These factors are one of the best‑measured and most accurately predictable components of the climate system. Scientists can both reconstruct them FAR into the past and predict them FAR into the future, with extraordinary precision because they are governed by celestial mechanics, the same physics that lets us predict eclipses centuries ahead. The last time that the orbit was significantly changed was 4.5 Billion years ago, when a Mars-sized protoplanet, commonly called Theia, collided with the young Earth, resulting in the formation of the Moon.

How much of the energy of the Sun, that has reached Earth, is absorbed by Earth vs emitted back into space is completely dependent on JUST TWO things:
1) Planetary albedo (how much sunlight is reflected)
2) Greenhouse effect (how difficult it is for infrared radiation to escape)

1) Earth's albedo is dependent on:
-1 Clouds (largest)
-2 Snow and ice
-3 Atmospheric aerosols
-4 Deserts and bright land surfaces
-5 Ocean reflection
-6 Vegetation
These are all factors that scientist have accurately measured. Human activity influences all major contributors to Earth’s albedo:
-1 Aerosol pollution can change cloud brightness, lifetime, and coverage.
-2 Human-driven warming reduces snow cover and melts glaciers and sea ice
-3 Human activity can affect ocean reflectivity indirectly through changes in sea ice, biological productivity, and surface conditions
-4 Industry, transportation, agriculture, biomass burning and deforestation by fire emit particles that can reflect sunlight directly and modify clouds indirectly.
-5 Deforestation, urbanization, agriculture, and desertification change surface reflectivity
-6 Deforestation, afforestation, agriculture, urbanization

2) The Greenhouse effect is dependent on:
-1 Water Vapor (H₂O)
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO₂ )
-3 Methane (CH4)
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N₂O)
-5 Ozone (O3)
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

There are well studied natural effects for all these factors, although several of them are affected by human activity:
-1 Water Vapor (H2O)
• Ocean evaporation
• Plant transpiration
• Volcanic eruptions
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Respiration by plants and animals
• Decay of organic matter
• Volcanic eruptions
• Ocean-atmosphere exchange
• Wildfires
-3 Methane (CH4)
• Wetlands and swamps (microbial decomposition)
• Termites and wild ruminants
• Wildfires
• Permafrost thaw and methane hydrates
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
• Microbial activity in natural soils
• Ocean nitrogen cycles
• Wildfires
-5 Ozone (O3)
• Chemical reactions of sunlight with natural volatile organic compounds (from plants/trees)
• Chemical reactions of sunlight with natural nitrogen oxides (from lightning/soils)
• Stratospheric air downwelling
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
• No significant natural effects

AND there are also well studied HUMAN ACTIVITY effects for ALL these factors, although several of them have interactions with natural processes:
-1 Water Vapor (H2O)
• Anthropogenic climate warming (the positive feedback loop: human greenhouse emissions warm the air, causing more ocean evaporation)
• Large-scale crop irrigation
• Fossil fuel combustion (minor direct byproduct)
-2 Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
• Combustion of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas for energy, heat, and transport)
• Deforestation and land-use changes (clearing forests for timber or urban development)
• Industrial processes (primarily cement manufacturing and chemical production)
• Agricultural and biomass burning
-3 Methane (CH4)
• Livestock farming (enteric fermentation from ruminants like cattle and sheep)
• Fossil fuel operations (leaks from natural gas extraction, coal mining, and oil refining)
• Rice cultivation (flooded paddies creating oxygen-depleted soil conditions)
• Municipal solid waste landfills and wastewater treatment
-4 Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
• Agricultural soil management (overapplication of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and animal manure)
• Chemical industry manufacturing (production of nitric and adipic acids for fertilizers and nylon)
• Commercial, industrial, and vehicular fuel combustion
• Domestic wastewater treatment
-5 Ozone (O3)
• Photochemical smog reactions (sunlight interacting with human-emitted pollutants like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds from vehicles, power plants, and industrial solvents)
-6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
• Refrigeration and air conditioning systems (coolant leaks and disposal)
• Industrial aerosol propellants
• Foam blowing agents used in insulation manufacturing
• Specialized electronic and industrial solvent cleaning systems

ALL of these effects have been studied by an army of scientists, in public service and in the private sector, all over the world, for decades.
The reality of human-caused climate change is backed by one of the most rigorously tested and cross-verified consensus positions in modern scientific history, built by thousands of experts across 195 countries who have reviewed tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies. Rather than relying on a single theory, this conclusion is proven by independent lines of evidence that completely converge. From ice cores archiving 800,000 years of ancient air, to modern networks of satellites, ocean buoys, and ground thermometers that all paint the exact same warming picture. Scientists have even tracked this down to the atomic level, showing that the specific carbon isotopes clogging our air match fossil fuels perfectly, while satellites measure a direct drop in escaping heat at the exact wavelengths of greenhouse gases. Because even decades-old internal research from private oil companies independently arrived at these same results, the reality we observe today is not a matter of debate, but a directly measured fact verified across the fields of physics, chemistry, and geology.

And what is your horribly corrupt and stupid president doing?
- First he cancelled Offshore wind project, costing the tax-payer roughly $2 billion in total and robbing them of cheap electricity.
- Then he is investing about $700 million of your tax-dollars in coal, which is a bad investment (even ignoring climate damage).

1) Coal is more expensive than alternatives, because coal plants have high fuel, labor,
and operating costs, while wind, solar, and natural gas are now cheaper to build and run
in nearly every U.S. region.

2) Coal plants are aging and require costly upgrades, because most were built 40–60 years ago and need expensive maintenance, retrofits, and pollution‑control equipment,
just to stay operational.

3) Private investors have abandoned coal, because the sector has high bankruptcy rates, shrinking demand, and poor long‑term profitability, making coal a classic “stranded asset” risk.

4) Coal cannot compete with natural gas, because gas plants are cheaper to build,
more efficient, and far more flexible for modern grid needs.

5) Coal plants are slow and inflexible, because they are designed for steady baseload operation and cannot ramp up or down quickly, which makes them poorly suited for
today’s variable electricity demand.

6) Maintenance and safety costs are high, because coal mining and coal power require heavy machinery, complex safety systems, and expensive waste‑handling infrastructure that remain costly, even when plants run at low capacity.

There have been several models for a long time, ranging from the best case to the worst case scenario. The warming of the planet is actually following a trend between RCP4.5
and RCP8.5, which is worse than the average of the models and less than the worst.

They call RCP4.5 the “Expensive adaptation world”
And the call RCP8.5 the “Chronic global stress world”

Why many economists think transition to green energy is cheaper than accepting the cost of the damage of a RCP4.5 climate.

RCP8.5 doesn't mean “everyone dies”, but a world where human civilization still exists,
yet operates under chronic environmental stress, persistent instability, and much lower resilience than today.

would likely look something like this:
- deadly heatwaves becoming routine across large regions,
- chronic coastal flooding and gradual retreat from some shorelines,
- repeated food and water crises in vulnerable countries,
- massive biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse,
- rainforest dieback,
- migration pressures involving tens or hundreds of millions of people,
- rising insurance and infrastructure failures,
- worsening inequality between adaptable wealthy regions and vulnerable poorer ones,
- increasing political instability driven by resource stress and repeated disasters.
- rising insurance and infrastructure failures,
- worsening inequality between adaptable wealthy regions and vulnerable poorer ones,
- increasing political instability driven by resource stress and repeated disasters.

That's very fucking bad.
Understand that if we don't do anything it will be WORSE THAN RCP8.5.
Also, warming doesn't stop in 2100. Chain reactions will keep making it worse.
It will probably not be complete extinction, but it will mean that the US will become too hot for human survival.

Places like:
- Canada,
- Northern Russia,
- Scandinavia,
- And southern parts of South America
Would likely remain physically livable even in extreme warming worlds.
There would be not enough living space for the 8 billion people we have now.

If the kid in the photo lives anywhere near the equator, he will be a refugee in his lifetime,
if he's not killed in the chaos that will be caused by the climate crisis, before his area becomes unfit for human survival for most of the year.

Our friends were visiting family in Pakistan for 3 weeks, a few years back. It was during a hot period that lasted several months. They were inside most of that time and only went out when they went to other people or late at night. During the day, outside was mostly deserted. It's now almost standard for long periods each year. They are about 2000 miles from the equator. In the gulf states, people live indoors for most of the summer.
People are already leaving those areas in big numbers, but wait a few decades and see
a mass exodus from parts of South Asia, the Persian Gulf, coastal West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The economy of those countries cannot sustain that. The rest of the world will be forced to either accept that refugee tidal wave, send them lots of money to survive,
or let them suffer and die, because of a problem that the West created.

Understand that RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 are NOT scenarios that are based on uncertainty in the prediction of the climate, but uncertainty in the prediction of how much the world ACTS to reduce climate change. If we do more, we will achieve the RCP4.5 scenario or better,
and if we do less we will get the RCP8.5 scenario or worse. If we had done nothing, we would be in the SSP5-8.5 scenario right now, which would likely result in substantial and growing destabilization by 2050.

By 2075, large parts of the world are facing chronic heat, water stress, migration crises, repeated food and infrastructure shocks, while many coastal cities are forced to build massive seawalls, elevate infrastructure, or abandon flood-prone neighborhoods due to persistent sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
By 2100, people will face a much harsher planet where many regions are difficult to live in without massive technological support, hundreds of millions of people are affected by rising seas, many coastlines are redrawn by erosion and flooding, major cities spend vast resources defending themselves from the ocean, and some low-lying communities and islands are permanently lost or relocated.

Similar to Covid and the Clown.

El Niño is expected to return in mid-to-late 2026, with forecasters indicating an 82% chance of emergence between May and July, and a 96% chance it will dominate the winter of 2026–2027. Some models suggest it could develop into a strong or "super" El Niño event.

El Niño is caused by a breakdown in normal Pacific Ocean wind and current patterns. Normally, strong trade winds blow east-to-west, pushing warm water toward Asia and allowing cold water to rise (upwelling) in the east. During El Niño, these trade winds weaken or reverse, causing warm water to slosh back toward the Americas

El Niño and La Niña affect the global climate and disrupt normal weather patterns, which as a result can lead to intense storms in some places and droughts in others.


This a natural thing that might get it's nose tickled by "climate change" but is not caused by it and can't be taxed away by politicians.

Bullshit, the Earth is warming at a faster rate than ever before.

David Marcus is a political/opinion writer, not a climate scientist.
His work is generally aligned with conservative and anti-progressive commentary.
Fox News opinion content has frequently been criticized by media watchdogs and climate researchers for spreading misleading or dismissive narratives about climate science.
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human-caused climate change is real and supported by decades of evidence from organizations such as NASA, NOAA, the IPCC, and major national science academies worldwide.

So in short: David Marcus is a conservative columnist and commentator, not a climate expert, and the article you saw is an opinion piece rather than a factual scientific analysis.
He is not even a serious journalist; he's a narrative humper, not a serious arguer.

The MSN link you shared is syndicating one of his opinion columns. The headline
(“the end of the climate change hoax”) reflects his personal political viewpoint,
not a scientific consensus or a New York Times editorial position.

This article has the same value as you saying it. It contains zero arguments that could even start to refute the scientific evidence that is supporting climate change.
There are even less arguments in this article than you have provided. Why post it?
The fact that this is the type of people who are on your side, should tell you something.

Corporate America is as crooked as it gets.

"Climate change" is just the more accurate term for "global warming", because it's possible that some areas in the world become cooler, temporarily, for instance from the global ocean conveyor belt coming to a halt preventing warm water heating up the South Pole, while the rest of the world heats up more, and the global average temperature rises.

You don't have te 'believe' anything. It is measured by every weather service in the world, and confirmed by every scientific entity tasked to double check the claims. It's a fact.
It takes tremendous effort to disbelieve it. You need to believe in a global conspiracy, between all countries, including ones that would love to debunk and humiliate some of
the other countries. It's literally using the same 'thinking' to believe the Earth is flat.

The term "climate change" also includes secondary effects from the Earth getting warmer;
- More extreme weather (heatwaves, storms, floods, droughts)
- Rising seas from warming oceans and melting ice
- Changes to oceans (warming, acidification, current shifts)
- Disrupted ecosystems and species loss (e.g. coral)
- Impacts on food, water, and human health
- Feedback loops that can amplify warming (e.g. wildfires)

Well, the snow is finally leaving around here, we got about 10 inches. but it is leaving behind a MUDDY MESS. suits me fine if it don't snow for another 40 years. I have had enough!

You'll think differently when some horrible flood hits you.

Virginia’s coastal areas, particularly the Hampton Roads region, are experiencing
some of the highest relative sea level rise in the contiguous United States due to both rising oceans and land sinking (subsidence). Flood risks are so significant that coastal planning and resilience efforts are a major focus of state climate policy.
You will be paying for that through your state's taxes.

Virginia is warming: average temperatures have risen substantially, and extreme heat days are increasing, especially in cities like Richmond.
Extreme heat presents serious public health challenges, particularly for vulnerable populations. Are you telling me that you haven't noticed?

A very, very, very, very, very, very small bit of global warming.
When it's because you ate beans, I'll allow it.
If not, go plant a tree now.