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Do people feel a change or observe a change? People aren't logical and are easily lead. Looking at why people perceive something can be insightful. For example
by mfer 7y ago
Do people feel a change or observe a change? People aren't logical and are easily lead. Looking at why people perceive something can be insightful.
For example, in the Atlantic basin there has been a bunch of work to try to measure hurricane changes. See https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/ https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/. So far, the impact has been minimal (small increases in rain amounts).
Do we build more in the hurricane zones? Is more talk on it leading people to feel things are worse? Are they worse and if so what measurements show it? Are more people impacted because of population growth?
- dvtrn 7y agoDo people feel a change or observe a change? I'm inclined to put down chips on the former; I often see and participate in conversations about local weather and often people making the conflation that a one off weather event == climate. The two are linked, but I've always understood the difference to be that climate = (weatherevent() x time) where time is usually on the scale of years; that it's much harder to fully assess climate by remarking on a couple days of severe thunderstorms. Opening myself up to correction here