elprincipe said:
highwaystar101 said:
elprincipe said:
highwaystar101 said:
With all respect I can see why people like to debate this point as it is not a black and white issue by any means. But can people stop saying 'global warming'? All it does is show that you don't know much about climate change, the earth isn't 'just' going to get warmer, just more extreme.
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Why should we call it "climate change"? Because the globe is no longer warming so they needed a new term? Open your eyes, man; that's called propaganda.
What "extreme" things are you talking about? I'd really like to know. Global cyclone strength is at its lowest recorded level, to take an example, despite doomsayers claiming we would have more frequent and stronger hurricanes. Please give examples of "extreme" weather you believe is caused by global warming (sorry, climate change). I'm very interested.
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You needed examples of the extreme weather conditions, I guess taking two seconds to click on the links I provided was to taxing then. But then again you cut them out when quoting so hey, they must not have been important enough.
Oh and the globe is getting warmer, it's the heat that will cause a climate shift in many parts of the world, that's why global warming is an incorrect term. Who's feeding me this propaganda then? The scientists who run a quest for knowledge not propaganda? No, the only propaganda is the media overblowing it. It's like that old saying PHd students have about the media "A clever mans words published in a silly salesmans words". (or something to that effect)
I wont say climate change isn't happening, because it is, all my point is that the media has overblown it a lot. But that doesn't stop the fact that we have to make very small changes to make a difference.
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So your evidence that global warming is causing "extreme weather events" is two rainy summers in England? I'm sorry, trying not to laugh, but you're going to have to do a lot better than that.
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Another way to look at it is, how can we seperate the increase in the number of weather events we know about from the number that is supposed to be produced by global warming?
If you split the Earth into areas by 10 degrees of lattitude and 10 degrees of longitude you have 648 massive, of which at least 25% of which will have some populated land-mass within them. With how large these areas are (hundreds of thousands of square kilometers) these each have their own weather patterns that exist within them. What this means is that we should be hearing about several hundred year droughts, floods, rain storms, heat waves and countless other extreme weather events every year (and we should hear about multi-decade events daily) simply due to probability.
Local weather (in general) should always be colder, warmer, weter, or dryer than average because (realistically) average weather is a statistical construct; and extreme weather is a constant on a global scale simply because given enough opportunities even unlikely events happen.
