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This is such a confusing stance. Can you elaborate?

by diob 4y ago

blackshaw 4y ago
Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK). The winters (always miserable when I was growing up) are milder and more tolerable, and I'm enjoying the increased outdoor opportunities made available by the longer, hotter, drier summers. I'd love it if things could stop exactly where they currently are. Unfortunately, they won't.
- omegaworks 4y ago
  Things might get much much colder in Europe if all the freshwater melting off Antartica stops the NAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate...
- jimlongton 4y ago
  > Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK) Not if you want reliable food production. Milder, wetter winters and drier, heatwave-prone summers and more unpredictable weather in general is hitting farmers badly. One recent example is potatoes [1]. "Hose-pipe bans" becoming a normal phrase in our lifetime is not a good sign of things to come. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/chips-potatoes-shrink-climate-change-global-warming-fruit-vegetables-heatwaves-a8762506.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/chips-potatoes-shr...
- jacobsenscott 4y ago
  A lot of people in the UK died last summer because you don't have the infrastructure for those longer hotter summers.
mxkopy 4y ago
Trolling, or they hate humanity and care for nothing but themselves. I've never met such a pathetic person in real life but I've no doubt they exist.
xyzelement 4y ago
It took me a minute to process his comment but I think I get it. I think Budha taught his disciples that you should not accept anything,even what I tell you, if it doesn't resonate with your own experience. So it's kinda understandable when someone looks outside and sees their weather get milder and more peasant and says "well I hear a lot of bad stuff but I see good stuff" Not saying that's correct but it's understandable. The other thing that I think has done a disservice to credibility is the blaming of too many things on climate change that are sort of blatantly unrelated. So someone goes "ok, I don't experience the bad stuff and I can plainly tell that at least some of what I hear is not accurate, so I am going to discount it all and go with my experience" That's highly subjective but I can't say it's a suboptimal strategy to anything else.

This is such a confusing stance. Can you elaborate?

by diob 4y ago

This is such a confusing stance. Can you elaborate?

Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK). The winters (always miserable when I was growing up) are milder and more tolerable, and I'm enjoying the increased outdoor opportunities made available by the longer, hotter, drier summers. I'd love it if things could stop exactly where they currently are. Unfortunately, they won't.

omegaworks 4y ago
Things might get much much colder in Europe if all the freshwater melting off Antartica stops the NAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Current#Climate...
jimlongton 4y ago
> Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK) Not if you want reliable food production. Milder, wetter winters and drier, heatwave-prone summers and more unpredictable weather in general is hitting farmers badly. One recent example is potatoes [1]. "Hose-pipe bans" becoming a normal phrase in our lifetime is not a good sign of things to come. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/chips-potatoes-shrink-climate-change-global-warming-fruit-vegetables-heatwaves-a8762506.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/chips-potatoes-shr...
jacobsenscott 4y ago
A lot of people in the UK died last summer because you don't have the infrastructure for those longer hotter summers.

mxkopy 4y ago

Trolling, or they hate humanity and care for nothing but themselves. I've never met such a pathetic person in real life but I've no doubt they exist.

xyzelement 4y ago

It took me a minute to process his comment but I think I get it. I think Budha taught his disciples that you should not accept anything,even what I tell you, if it doesn't resonate with your own experience. So it's kinda understandable when someone looks outside and sees their weather get milder and more peasant and says "well I hear a lot of bad stuff but I see good stuff" Not saying that's correct but it's understandable. The other thing that I think has done a disservice to credibility is the blaming of too many things on climate change that are sort of blatantly unrelated. So someone goes "ok, I don't experience the bad stuff and I can plainly tell that at least some of what I hear is not accurate, so I am going to discount it all and go with my experience" That's highly subjective but I can't say it's a suboptimal strategy to anything else.