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True. But whenever things like glaciers melting, Arctic sea ice melting, etc. get brought up as evidence for global warming someone inevitably mentions that re
by yequalsx 9y ago
True. But whenever things like glaciers melting, Arctic sea ice melting, etc. get brought up as evidence for global warming someone inevitably mentions that recorded time is quite small in relation to geologic time. It's a response that is useless and it's annoying to hear. It's the global warming equivalent of Godwin's Law.
- averagewall 9y agoYou might be seeing global warming deniers in every shadow. Sometimes people just mean what they say without a popular political motivation behind it. I agree with the GP and the title irked me too. "all-time" is OK for sports or other human inventions where we do have a record of all time, but for the Earth, it's just wrong to misuse it for sensationalism.
- pizza 9y agoI think all that they are implying is that the recorded maximum of the short past is unlikely to place predictive limits on or reveal much about the potential enormity of that maximum's successor.
- yequalsx 9y agoThis is sufficiently well known that it doesn't need repeating every time a weather anomaly occurs. It seems to me that the post in question has come to be a rallying cry for climate change deniers. It has become coded language for a certain segment of the population.