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Global warming - not exactly sure; climate change, undeniable; human-induced climate change, undoubtedly IMO That's the issue. (I upvoted you btw) That the cli
by run4yourlives 17y ago
Global warming - not exactly sure; climate change, undeniable; human-induced climate change, undoubtedly IMO
That's the issue. (I upvoted you btw) That the climate is going through a short period of less than stable behaviour is certainly evident. It's also evident that it's gone through such behavior in the past, with both more and less variance. There have been ice ages FFS, and that had nothing to do with man.
It seems like we are having an influence in our current whether patterns, but we simply have nowhere near the amount of data to know this beyond theory.
To say that we are - without doubt - causing the earth's climate to change when we can't predict the "change" accurately is scientifically irresponsible.
- potatolicious 17y agoThere's a lot of confirmation bias I think. Last year the winter around here was colder than usual, and you will not stop hearing people claim it's because of global warming. The next year people continue to use these anecdotes to justify the existence of global warming.
- antipaganda 17y agoActually, AFAIK, climate change is supposed to cause greater variability in temperatures, not just uniformly higher temperatures. This is what I've heard from scientists like James Hansen. Therefore, one would expect more episodes of lower temperature (cold snaps), but also more periods of higher temps (heatwaves).