I was almost afraid to queue this. It looks suspiciously ill-informed, it so perfectly fits the stereotype we all know and laugh at. I was worried it might be fake news cleverly aimed at sites like this and writers like me. But it’s been reported in what look to be credible venues:
Mr. Wagner's remarks, in an interview Monday with WITF radio in Harrisburg, have attracted criticism and even ridicule from news outlets and Democrats. Talking about climate change, Mr. Wagner said, according to the report: “I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year — you know the rotation of the earth ... We’re moving closer to the sun.”
“We have more people," he continued. "You know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat coming off?”
Wagner is Scott Wagner, Pennsylvania state senator and, please let it be up-until-now, a candidate for governor. Take a wild guess which political party he belongs to?
Now, in point of fact—sigh—no, the warming is not the result of collective body heat, human, animal, or alien. Furthermore, and I really can’t stress this enough, the Earth is not moving closer to the sun “every year,” nor is there any danger the home-world will suddenly change orbit and make a break for the sun anytime soon. At least not without crossing paths with a very, very large object, the kind we would see coming years ahead of time from a billion miles away.
Global warming is caused by the release and build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Over the many preceding eons, that has usually been carbon dioxide, but methane and other substances can also play a role. These days, that excess carbon dioxide and other stuff is a direct consequence of industry, mostly the burning of fossil fuels, specifically coal, oil, and natural gas.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2ooyTn1
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