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Global warming is not a great name, it could be called something like: (human-induced environmental and) climate changes, ... This planet is a complex balance,

Global warming is not a great name, it could be called something like: (human-induced environmental and) climate changes, ... This planet is a complex balance, and once you remove more than 50% of the forests, suck up significantly hydrocarbures reserves, destroy more than 80% of the insect population, of the soil life, reject huge quantities of pollutants in the air, water and soil at planet scale, it's a matter of logic to understand the climate is affected I don't know exactly when we went past the balance point. But we could probably be 10 billions humans without a negative impact on the planet. The problem comes from the way most first-world and emergent countries people live, the lack of a sustainable system

oceanplexian 8y ago
We can't even predict, or agree how to predict which direction a hurricane will travel outside the span of a week or two. Weather predictions, like climate change predictions, are based on models- models which are based on different theories of how air masses, temperatures, and pressure interact to affect the atmosphere. It's not unreasonable in the least to say, "Perhaps the climate is changing, but I am highly skeptical of the models that specifically implicate AGW in certain weather patterns, or insinuate that certain weather patterns are the direct result of climate change" In fact I think it's much more plausible that a few decades of "dry weather" would be categorized as weather phenomena and not climate phenomena, since such decades-long changes in weather patterns are frequently a part of the historical record.