It was such a big hoas they changed it to climate change. That whole shift in paradigm after years of shilling muh warming. You know what it brought in? No apologies no apologies 10 years on when it's projected that the temperature in Romania in MAY the month of flowers will be 15°C tops at daytime. In fucking may lol,you can imagine how cold it is yet they bitch muh warming when it's 38°C in july-august.I remember 2013 and the temperatures were nearly identical in April and March and when may comes it'll be similar too possibly.Where are the apologies from the "scientists"? When will their endless hubris stop?, when will they admit it's not "warming"? They should've apologized a long time ago.Soon the "climate change" agenda will be disproved too. They claim 5000 species of animals will disappear in 5 years or something LOL. They'll bitch about precipitations or wind currents everything to dodge accountability!!!?Have you ever seen a PhD say they're wrong
>It was such a big hoas they changed it to climate change. nope its still global warming for almost everyone, they just changed the term to cover edge cases because you luddites couldnt stop screeching
>>533695768Professor Richard Linzen has a BA, MS, and PhD. He's been saying it's wrong for longer than you've been alive.
>>533695768Thank you voivod for your service
>>533695768>if you give lawyers money they can change the weather
>>533695768Thought your pic was Stargate Atlantis. Got excited
>>533695829>1pbtid>Possibly no PhDThe climate in Romania is SUPPOSED to get warmer not cooler. Do you have a PhD in physical geography or are you troll? It's continetal-temoerate in transition with minimal Mediterranean influences+ mountain clime for areas 2000-2500+ meters. It contains all forms of relief and is not that different from areas in Germany except were closer to Russia and the lack of mountains allows frosty winds to come and affect especially the east.Precipitations 700-800 mmAnd there is NO climate change in Romania. The temperature is the same. Do you even own a thermometer! What species of animals in Romania are jeopardized ooooohh yeah you know they are and that you're right now matter what even if you don't know
>>533695768Many a PDH's said the Climax lobby is wrong, ROexitbro.But few get coverage in the media.Meanwhile the EU got US cloud cover tech to get some warmth in this winter. But do not tell anybody.
I am going to get file this
>>533696048There are several analyses that show most warming is due to urbanisation and land use change around temperature stations.Sats cannot measure air temps at 2m in the shade, so not much to do with that data.Plus we have actually changed 11% or the Earth;s surface in terms of albedo and heat capacity, and none of that is in the fucking Forcings model.
>>533695768this is easliy researched. we are seeing extremes in weather. this has been affecting crops. we need those to live.just because someone wrote something about florida being under water a few years ago doesn't mean shit to the environment. the weather doesn't read the fuckin papers. but we are already seeing changes. many of us think it's not worth going on about anymore because we've past tipping point. so pressy trump can drill baby drill but his grand kids are goning tosuffer because of it. he doesn't give a fuck about them though reallyanywayz
>>533696183How does grazing change the albedo you fucking nigger
>>533695768next thing youll say is the hole in the ozone is getting smaller.
>>533696251None of that will happen dear Messianic Apocaliptical Pirate.CO2 is plant food, it boost drought resitence and greens the Earth.Crops trends are up massively.CO2 is a potent absorber of some IR, but it is also a potent emitter, one of the two main emitters of IR into space of out Atmo.
>>533695768I am 45, and I can literally see the change in my country. When I was a teen, snow came in November, and would stay until half of April. Now, snow doesn't come until half of January has passed, and it's gone by the second half of Mars. I have seen the glaciers disappear. I have seen species that did not survive here before, now thriving. I don't need some scientist to tell me my country is changing. I see it every year.
>>533696363Mutt, grazing requires grassland, not brush neither forrests. When you see grazing going up it usually means the others got changed to do so.There are instances of pure grassland, but only safe and rare ones.
>>533695768do not fear me gypsy, all I want from you is your tears
>>533696379It was always there burger. The air circulation in the Antarctic will always produce it seasonally with some variations.
>>533696489Temperature in Stockholm is 9°C id say this is plenty of cold for mid to late aprilMeanwhile people in local Romanian TV shows talk about gender reveal. In Romania 2026... Anyway those temperatures are average on the lower side even. Everywhere.
>>533695768It's fake as in it's not man who's causing this, but some scientists argue that it's entirely due to the sun's activity. Of course those scientists have been banned by the MSM
>>533696048Droughts getting a bit annoying though right?Do you take average temperature (extreme) measurements with your thermometer? I don't. Our climate doesn't go as extreme as Romania, so shifts are easier to see in winter ... no good long ice period for iceskating in nearly 30 years. Can quible about the causes, but it's pretty steadily changing and getting warmer.
>>533696627You cannot expect me to deny what my eyes are telling me.
>>533696641Oh we are causing it, just not by CO2.But by growing food and changing one third of all land, or around 11% of the whole Earths surface. And if we stop the temp will go back down to whatever it was.But I like it a tad warmer.
>>533696751Set your eyes onto our Climax history.Hint: cannot unsee.
>>533695768>guis I'm not joking we're all gonna die of global wa-.........well, global something or other>fuck off im being serious now
>>533696904I will trust my own eyes before random numbers some random on /pol/ produced.
>>533696736Your clime is the same as the British too close to the north sea and the Atlantic. Precipitations undeniably come year round but you're surrounded by bodies of water that are bound not to drop below °C in the same way there's other areas you know tropical subtropical musonic equatorial subewuatorial Mediterranean. It doesn't snow that much in Italy either for instance...or Spain possibly not even in france
>>533696838Latent heat storage is a second order effect. It doesn't balance incoming radiation, it balances warming. No warming, no increase in latent heat ... so only for them that arrow even exist, for you it should be zero.
>>533697084Dutch didn't start ice skating because they loved artificial ice so much. Netherlands had proper winters for most of the 20th century.
>>533696386>CO2 will build drought resistance
>>533697072Even if you are right Suedebro.Would the climate of Belarus be that bad for you?You'd be able to have an extended growing season, make big potatoes and brew alcohol from those to depress you even further as your days will still be shit, and the immigrants would still be raping and pillaging your land.
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>>533697208No, latent heat storage (and our 24h rotation) is THE reason our planet is warm.If the Moon were not covered in the most stupidly insulating dust even it's average 29day temp would go up significantly.On Earth we have one of the most heat capacity substances ever to take in energy and store it for nighttime. Water.
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>>533697443Plant drought resistance is not about droughts.But the fact that stomata need to lose 120 mols of water to capture one mol of CO2.Double the moles of CO2 to be captured and you need lose only 60 mols of water for a seed to seed cycle.Works for most plants, but not all. Some will be missed.
>>533695768Climate changes. It is a fact. 11000 years Ago Baltic sea was under iceberg. 9000 years ago Scandinavia was still under iceberg.This iceberg is still retracting. Thus it is getting warmer in Europe. It is basic geological knowledge they teach in Poland in primary school.What is a hoax is manmade global climate change(locally man can influence climate as well as planted tree influences it) and manmade CO2 affecting climate.As for "it is cold in April boo hoo" There is a thing called "cold gardeners/Ice saints" in whole Europe and their date is 14-16.05 which is a date when it gets warmer and there is no risk of temperatures getting <0oC anymore. Which means it is natural for the last few hundred years as if not millenium that before Ice Saints day temperatures could drop below zero even in May.
>>533697727If it's just for night storage the arrow is still zero on average, only persistent increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere increases water vapour content.
>>533697527I like the cold and the snow. I will have to move north is this goes on.
>>533695768They're preparing to go with Aliens or Meteor crash. I'm serious.
>>533697809All those are fitted and adjusted crap from urbanisation that heated the area around the weather stations.
>>533697815The plants still need more water to use the additional CO2, even if they become more efficient. So unless there is more water available the plants wont grow faster/bigger.Meanwhile the coral reefs are dying>https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/research/coral_bleaching_report.php
>>533696015>Thought your pic wasbongs on table
>>533697941Why is the arctic warming even faster if it's urban heat effect (which is controlled for in all of those data sets)?
>>533698073Squint nigger. Tiny version looks like a city
>>533696751Are you seeing the sea level rise yet?
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>>533698113>sea level is not risingwhole country is relocating to your country due to rising seas (picrel). enjoy the climate refugees on top of all the jeets
>>533698113I do not, but I don't spend much time looking either.
>>533697846You seem nice, so I will use gentle words.The fact that 100 times the heat capacity from dust to water affects ground air temps is due to a little unknown phenomena of Black body radiation.2 cases come to mind:DUST in daytime, heats up fast as it cannot hold much, starts emitting BB radiation at high temp right during daytime, does so a bit during night as it hasn't much and gets cool af.Water, heats up a degree or two, emits very little, has enough energy stored to emit a lot during night time. Warmth.The bloody T^4 of black-body radiation is KING.Pic unrelated, but shows average equatorial Moon temps were it to spin faster.
>>533696386In the lower atmosphere (the troposphere), CO2 molecules absorb IR radiation rising from the Earth's surface. When a CO2 molecule absorbs this energy, it vibrates and then re-emits it in all directions. About half of that re-emitted energy goes back down toward the surface rather than escaping to space. This is the "Greenhouse Effect."At very high altitudes, the air is thin enough that when CO2 emits a photon, it is much more likely to escape directly into space without hitting another molecule.Because of this, CO2 actually acts as a coolant for the upper atmosphere, even while it traps heat in the lower atmosphere.The nuance lies in the Net Energy Balance. While CO2 does emit radiation into space, the current increase in concentration means the "blanket" in the lower atmosphere is getting thicker.
can we see the raw data instead of the models
>>533698049The reason C02 helps plants is that they use LESS water. And a hotter planter would lead to more precipitation, not less. And from someone who lives next to the Great Barrier Reef ... its absolutely fine.
no correlation with solar activity
>>533698049No plants can and do regulate water loss. And they require a set amount for processing it, not moar.Corals grow only in the warmest of waters, fuck the Great Barrier reef, go up from Stralia in the Equator and tell me how the bleaching did not exterminate those corals from Oceania, considering the water is fucking 5 degrees warmer.
Ultimately, the Left have failed to convince me as to why I should care more about climate change than about third world overpopulation and export of third worlders en masse into the West. Why should I care about the ice caps being gone if the West ceases to exist by 2050? >BUT MUH ANIMALSIndians, Chinese and Africans will eat literally every living thing once global famines start.>BUT MUH PLANTSSee above, with the addition of burning trees for heat and cooking.>BUT MUH OCEAN LEVELSThe oceans will be choked with plastic from Asia anyway.
>>533695768nice sprockets nigga
>>533698162Australia as a continent moves at 70mm north per year due to plate tectonics. Our seas are rising 1.5mm per year. In Australian style we will ride the wave and smash into India before sea levels reach our beach houses.
>>533698095There are no weather stations up there son. It's floaty ice all around.There was a sea passage open a century ago, as it was a tad warmer.
>>533698313it's not your job to careit's the job your elected officials
>>533695768They do it because they are never punished.No arrests have been made over the global warming fraud. No asset seizures to recoup stolen money via fraud. They steal trillions and get away with it scott free because they've mastered the lie and legal theft.
>>533695768>temperature in Romania in MAY the month of flowers will be 15°C tops at daytimeLiteral woman-tier emotional argument. I just saw a nigger working so it's a hoax that they leech welfare.
>>533698234>the great barrier reef is fine>take my pragerU inspired word for it goyok Noahas for increasing CO2 it might make plants more efficient (taking Romania bro's word for it), but they still need water to use the additional CO2: 6CO 2 + 6H 2 O C 6 H 12 O 6 + 6O 2more precipitation in some places at some times. More drought in other places at other times as the graph i posted here >>533697443shows
>>533698363first off there is land in the Arctic circle. 2nd off there are buoys in the ocean (The International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP)), there are satellites etc.Post proof of a northwest passage
>>533698189Energy balance be damned, If same goes in but more gets out, how does it warm shit.Few problems, your IR of about 12um gets absorbed in the first few meters of ground atmosphere, it does not re-radiate at all as that energy is absorbed much faster via collisions that just heat the air locally. In TOA it's bout right, yet more of the CO2 will emit more. Earth looks like a light bulb in that frequency from sats.The main issue is IR is a fucking spectrum and around 12 is a fucking bit of it. While air can emit in many others. So your absorbed IR, get thermalised and remitted in some random frequency that has a high chance to not be 12um of CO2 missing your theory entirely.Plus the main cooling mechanism of the Earths surface is ... evaporative convection. Le water cycle. Which moves 60-70% of all Sun received energy upwards, missing your entire premise and mechanism.
>>533698416And they all support mass migration of third worlders into the West, the destruction of the natural environment to build houses for them, and inevitable collapse in living standards that will force people to burn trees for warmth and rape the environment. Again, simply unconvinced by the histrionics.
>>533698442>More drought in other places at other timesI think you just described the planet for the las 6 billion years.And I didn't see you go after the Swede when he said he had never seen it so hot ... ergo Climate Change. I've heard coral reefs will die next year for 20 years. The scam is over. Coral Reefs love warm water ... why do you think you've ever seen it before?
>>533696627>well I didn't suck cock today, guess that makes me a heterosexual
>>533695768Of course a thirdie would say this
>>533698717Tbfh Swedish women are hot, a bit of warmth could loosen that thick clothing and solve their population demographics entirely.
>>533698591Mixed sea level rise according to NOA
They have been shilling fear for a long, LONG time.
>>533695768The climate buzz in the 70's was "global cooling" from the same body of (((science))).
>>533695768"Global warming" or whatever version of it is just jews and arabs building weather manipulation centers around the world to play god, just look at what happened after Iran bombed their facilities in Emirates. now it's 5 degrees colder after years of drought and it's raining again !
>>533695768If only you knew how bad things really are.At some point in the last 10 years, it was realised that the point of no return has been reached and we can't stop what is coming. Whether it is man-made or natural, preventable or not is irrelevant (and I don't know). Food production and stability from extreme weather events are increasingly uncertain and most of the world will be impacted and unable to support its current population. This is why the global economy is being milked and exploited like there is no tomorrow, and why we are seeing specific geo-political events taking place. It's because the world is being positioned for this eventuality and those in the know are securing wealth/land in the "safe" areas. It's not a national phenomenon, it's a movement of families/assets to the new world.I don't know about my country or Australia. While we are geographically safe, we are also very dependant on fertilizer/oil imports. Russia, the US and Lower-South America are all the big winners. Asia/Europe is in big trouble. It won't be a big event or an overnight thing, and it is already happening. What it will be is rapid demographic shifts due to "Economic" reasons, increasing crime/lower quality of living and declining birth rates. No giant flood, just a slight raising of temperature to reduce food production (and so raise the cost of living) alongside with reduction in insurance availability and increased input costs. We are already seeing areas in NZ cities where commercial insurance is no longer available.
>>533698656it's a planet. if houses are to be built the won't matter to the planet the location of them. you said something about burning trees. it's 2026. we have electricity, gas, nuclear power. you think people are still chopping down trees to put logs on a fire? your racism has made great ridiculous leaps to blame climate chamge on immigration.
>>533698929in the seventies it was all about the ozone and how man made cfc's put a danngerous big hole in it.
>>533696641NASA concluded after 60 years of collecting and analyzing data is the largest factor of variations in climate is our distance from the sun which oscillates due to dynamic forces (think precession/nutation).
>>533695768India is hotter than Africa now. We have to purge.... I mean.. lower CO2 in india...If only some smart Asian scientist could come up with a way to rapidly lower CO2 levels in india.
>>533698974>just a slight raising of temperatureExactly where I like to holiday.
>>533699198We should lower the oxygen in India to zero as a first step
>>533695768>It was such a big hoas they changed it to climate change.The two terms have been used interchangeably for decades, there's no "gotcha" here.>muh specific month in muh specific placetemperatures fluctuate, nobody gives a fuck you third-world retard. We can take global averages, we know global temperatures have increased about 1.2C since pre-industrial times when we started pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.>Where are the apologies from the "scientists"?Why the fuck would they apologize, measured as a whole, predictions have been quite accurate. You know whose predictions HAVEN'T been accurate? Those of the skeptics. Like, holy shit, you drooling fucking idiots can't even agree on what you believe!>it's actually cooling!>ok it's not cooling but it's not warming>it is warming but it's solar activity>it is warming but it's a natural cycle and it'll go back down on its own>it is warming but it's uhhh the Earth's surface>it is warming and it's CO2 but the CO2's not from us>it is warming and it's us but it's actually goodOne side has an internally consistent set of beliefs backed up by a huge amount of empirical evidence. The other side believes 700 mutually contradictory things, have weak to no evidence, and have been constantly wrong in the past. And the conspiracies are so goddamn fucking stupid. Yes retard, Big Green™ has been oppressing the poor helpless mom and pop oil shops like shell and BP, that's definitely what's happening. Moneyed interests would never favor the oil and gas industry, they're the little guys!Will you read this? I'm guessing not because doing so would hurt you emotionally. But just know that whatever bizarre asspull of an argument you may shit out has already been covered.https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
>>533698632"Thermalization" and Collision ArgumentThis actually supports the warming theory. If the energy were immediately re-emitted, it might escape. Instead, it’s "trapped" locally as heat in the air. That warm air then has to get rid of that energy. It does this by eventually passing it back to other CO2 (or water vapor) molecules, which then try to radiate it again.The "12µm" and Spectrum IssueThe "Saturation" Myth: Some argue that because CO2 already absorbs almost all the IR in its specific band within the first few meters, adding more CO2 doesn't matter.The Reality: It matters because of the Top of Atmosphere (TOA). As you add more CO2, the "escape altitude"—the height at which the air is thin enough for a photon to finally fly off into space without being re-absorbed—moves higher into colder layers of the atmosphere.The "Light Bulb" from SpaceThis is actually the "smoking gun" for greenhouse warming. Satellites looking down see a "bite" taken out of Earth's IR spectrum exactly where CO2 absorbs. Because that energy is being emitted from higher, colder altitudes (the escape altitude mentioned above), it is weaker than the radiation coming from the warm ground. If we add more CO2, that "bite" gets wider and deeper, meaning less total energy is escaping at that moment.Evaporative Convection (The Water Cycle)Convection only moves heat from the ground to the upper atmosphere. It doesn't move it to spaceyou whiny little prick
>>533698426>Finland
>>533698162>In 25 years could beYou fell for it and some developer made a slick deal. Your ancestors are dishonored. Congratulations!
>>533699198Deforestation is a bitch.Plant moar trees hindis.
>>533695768The clash the great flat earth band registered the ew ice age not local warming it's changed twicebstve pieces iodhit in the earth blind niggers satanism rve sht protofols of Zion is america kill Sarah silveman
>>533695768The climate is changing but it has nothing to do with man, our effect on the planet is minimal and to think we can save it or destroy it is pure narcissistic fantasy. The real cause is increasing solar activity leading to the weakening of the earth’s magnetic field.
>>533695768>>35 pages global warming isn't real copeNa. Inexperience the wobble. I'm farmer and actually have been adjusting my life around this wobble. Which has been confirmed Everytime.
>>533698222Why you no like spaghetti model, gay?
>>533699383Everyone believes that the sea level was 45 meters lower 12,000 years before man put any C02 into the air. Yet here we are.
>>533699119Ozone bit was late 80s and 90s. In the 70s-early 80s you could still buy r12 for 50 cent a can.
>>533698313>the Left have failed to convince me as to why I should care more about climate change than about third world overpopulation and export of third worlders en masse into the Westnigger if you're afraid of the browns you should be fucking terrified of climate change, tons of brownoids live in equatorial regions that are going to be fucked the hardest. Remember the Syrian refugee crisis? A key part of the conditions that enabled the country's collapse was a big drought. The flood of refugees you'll get from droughts, sea level rise, agricultural losses, and just straight-up temperature increases is gonna make the 2011 crisis look like a fucking family vacation.
>>533699299Brilliant idea!
>>533695768Look at yout environment, if you carefuly pay attention you will notice it become gayer and browner. Global warming is real
>>533699619yeah, maybe i was only 3 yrs old in 1970i can't remember much
>>533695768The weather is getting hotter, it's like 5 degrees hotter on average than it was 3 years ago. That's a nightmareBill Gates is a hero for spraying chemtrails to block out the fucking sun
>>533698049>>533698222Be careful about what data you trust.A whistleblower from NOAA came forward several years ago claiming the agency had been altering its historical records, creating 'warming trends' that didn't actually happen.The corruption runs deep here.
>>533699795Dr. Bates’ primary complaint wasn't that the data was fake, but that the process was flawed. He alleged: Poor Documentation: The study used experimental datasets that hadn't gone through NOAA's rigorous internal archiving process. Rushed Publication: He felt the paper was rushed to influence the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Lack of Transparency: He argued that by not following the "gold standard" for data preservation, other scientists couldn't easily replicate the work.When you look at the details of that case, it’s a classic example of how a technical dispute between scientists can look like a conspiracy when it hits the headlines.In 2015, a paper led by Thomas Karl (the "Karl Study") was published in Science. It updated how NOAA accounted for temperature data, particularly from ships and buoys. This update effectively "erased" the hiatus, showing that warming had continued steadily.
>>533699418Trapped in the first 10 meters versus trapped in the first 6. Same. Thermalised and re-emitted in some other rando frequency of no import to CO2 absorbtion spectra.TOA already emitts the 12um CO2 like crazy from altitudes where absorbtion is rare. Nothing changes.If you have more of the emitter it is a brighter bulb, thus energy escapes just fine and your premise is dumb.Sats see the 12um just fine, there is no bite there, it is just they cannot see the surface in that band, same for water's fucking bands. Who cares.The energy is not emitted form higher altitudes, this has never been properly measured and is just a Climate Commie talking point.Water condenses at high altitude dumping roughly 60% of all received incoming Solar energy high above all that fucking CO2. Makes some shade too.
>>533699383>co2 is the problemso reducing the population is the most effective way to solve the problemletting a few billion shitskins starve ought to get those levels back down somethanks anon, you've really done wonders to change my mind about climate change!
>>533699990LLM trash, not reading
>>533700686Killing people turns them into CO2.Catch 22.
>>533695768Climate change is a fact.Man-made climate change is a belief turned into religion. Religions creates wealth and control.Instead of kvetching about it on /pol observe and learn how to use this new religion to your advantage. You will be scamming the gullible gretards while getting wealthy just like the pope of greenstianity, Al Gore, win-win.
>>533700905counterpoint: they were always going to die and add CO2 to the atmosphere, but the reduction in carbon-generating activities that will cease as a result of their earlier deaths will more than offset ittl;dr: fewer humans, fewer carbon generating activitesthank you for coming to my TED talk
>>533701066Wicked numbers considering the post. Kek.Pic related, spiky life into CO2 extinction events on the global scale. Your numbers are not high enough, you need to pump em.
>>533700999checked and based and correctwe will now use climate change to justify cutting off aid to the third worldfewer people, less carbon. only way. if it's us or you, well...we feed you, so...gonna have to be us.we will be the priests of the new climate cult, and we'll be the 'presumptive' death cult mirror of their 'presumptive' life cult. yes, this indeed fucks.
>>533695768You're stupid.
>>533695768you could have just googled it and saved yourself from looking stupid and saved a more worthy thread from being bumped off the page for your nonsense.
>>533695768it is classic Pseudoscience money scam like:vaccines dark matter flat earth UFOeach of these are made for money they understand that it is very hard to prove main core idea so they jump on it and start build beggar business around itThese are mostly state level funded huge scale scam where state is victim Results simply do not exist or literally harmful to population which serve as goal for other money earn schemes (vaccines produce patients for Medical industry)World is terrible place when you can connect right dots.
>>533696489Change weather to Niggers and this post still works
>>533695768Global warming = trending of increasing average global temp over several yearsClimate change = extreme weather events that are occurring more often each year, eg: droughts, floods, blizzards,
>>533698162>whole country>10,000 peopleLOL
You experienced it yourself. Another example, when you buy a home in Florida the insurance companies can project if your home will need flood insurance in the future. Warmer water make worse hurricanes and some parts are sinking slowly already. Money understands it's real. The only question is how aggressively do we tackle it.
>>533695768The tragedy is that it is real but jews don't care because it was too good of an excuse to scam white people out of more money for climate guilt and have another reason to tell them to stop reproducing. So nothing has been done about it because it's too good a business model to make money off of as long as it remains a problem. same reason big pharma doesn't want to cure things or big energy doesn't a actually want renewable alternatives. It's the nature of Judeao Capitalism. Endless parasitism, no useful innovation. Their Noahide laws treat the earth as a series of fungible commodities they can buy and sell, not a living system that we are part of and dependent upon. It won't even stop at the white race. If he isn't stopped the jew will quite literally destroy all life on the planet. He is the evolutionary stop gap that determines if terrestrial life continues amd makes its way into the stars.
