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Because when people talk about “climate change” they’re mostly referring to the change in the climate due to the increase in carbon emissions due to human activ
by abootstrapper 8y ago
Because when people talk about “climate change” they’re mostly referring to the change in the climate due to the increase in carbon emissions due to human activity.
- guscost 8y agoGee, it’s almost as if the phrase means whatever is needed at the time to win an argument. When an opponent says that the evidence of anthropogenic cause and/or catastrophic effects doesn’t meet the threshold of proof they want before supporting regulatory schemes, oh look they are denying [that the] climate change[s]. It’s basic science! And if they say that of course the climate changes, has changed a lot more in the distant past than we’ve ever seen firsthand, and humans probably affect it in many ways, well they’re ignoring how the phrase “climate change” is used in the literature, which implies a particular anthropogenic cause and catastrophic effects!
- geggam 8y agoGee, it’s almost as if the phrase means whatever is needed at the time to win an argument. I find the internet to be mostly about this
- titzer 8y agoI think you're being downvoted because you pose a false dichotomy. Crazy people say stuff all the time. Say "A" and group X denounces you, say "not A" and group Y denounces you. They aren't always the same people. But regardless, I think you're giving a very cartoonish version of any of these scenarios, perhaps just due to brevity. But I'll counter by being brief, too. Yep, the climate is changing. It's mostly bad. Lots of shit is dying, and we could too. And it's mostly our fault.