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| politicization wasn't two sided Maybe at the start, but nowadays there are plenty of people on the opposite end of the spectrum spewing things like: - Hurri
by pyre 13y ago
| politicization wasn't two sided
Maybe at the start, but nowadays there are plenty of people on the opposite end of the spectrum spewing things like:
- Hurricane Katrina is proof of Global Warming.
- "There wasn't enough snow last winter. Global Warming!"
- "There was more snow this year than last year. Global Warming!"
- "There was a drought this year. Global Warming!"
- "There was too much rain this year. Global Warming!"
There's also this idea that the climate has ever reached any sort of equilibrium state. With as many variables go into something like the global climate, I find it hard to believe that we can say anything with any certainty. E.g.
How do deep sea methane pockets affect the climate? Do we know how often any of these might be released into the atmosphere? Do we know if any of these had any affect on any sort of ancient climate change that we only know about from ice core samples?
- scarmig 13y agoYes, the "it's a hot day in summer therefore climate change" annoys me as much as "it's a cool day in winter therefore no climate change." Any given year, or even span of a couple years, isn't enough, let alone a day in a particular region. As for your questions, dealing with them individually with some level of certainty isn't too bad: I've certainly read convincing discussions of them. It's when dealing with things not in isolation that things become tricky. Most (though not all) feedbacks point in the positive direction, so all together they are almost certainly positive, even if that's not mathematical proof. But the magnitude of that positivity is very much up in the air.