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Climate change. And, odds are, looking out your window for a year and comparing that to what you saw and documented in previous years would show that the climat
by spdustin 11y ago
Climate change. And, odds are, looking out your window for a year and comparing that to what you saw and documented in previous years would show that the climate you've experienced this past year is different. It's changed. The weather on any given day may not, but the sum total of annual energies revealing themselves to you through temperature, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, humidity... that is likely to be different from past years in a statistically significant way.
- tedunangst 11y agoSeems like a flawed setup. If I observe a change, "see, there's climate change." If I don't observe a change, "duh, it's global change, you can't just measure locally." Heads you win, tails I lose. And seriously, compare this year to last? Do you think the climate in years 1000 and 1001 didn't change? This is exactly the bullshit "science" climate change deniers use.
- thaumaturgy 11y agoYeah, I'm fully in the "humans are causing a global climate problem that is going to make life difficult for humans" camp, and I agree with you here. We can't on the one hand say, "it's climate, not weather, it's global, not local", and then on the other hand point to local severe weather effects as evidence. They are evidence, but only when looked at on a global scale, and it's confusing to people to try to have it both ways. It drives me nuts when there's a new report that says, "2015 was the hottest year on record!" and then somebody always has to come along and say "But it was freezing in Boston!"; likewise when a report says, "there will be severe weather effects according to this model!", I shouldn't say, "and look at that one hurricane this year!"