Climate is measured over a 30 year time frame? Seriously?
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Yes, because, from one year to the next, the temperature, among other things, can see quite a variance. Growing up in the NE, we could have one mild winter where there was barely enough snow for skiing, followed by a year of el nino, where we get numerous blizzard and I was in VT every other weekend. World weather patterns come and go from year to year, which can drastically affect the weather for a particular region, short-term. You have to "filter" out the normal variance to determine that the climate actually is.
Sorry, eatfido, you're an idiot. And again, like your buddy LittleLiberalEva, you offer no solutions. You only want to bitch about it. At least you haven't called for non-stop worldwide Olympic Games.
I'll get to solutions when we have enough people who understand and admit that there is a problem.
I understand that the earth has been hotter at certain points. The short-sightedness of this position is that humans have not been on the planet that entire time. We are only in the "today" period of that graph. . .and notice the huge spike at the end of it. If you think that helping the climate of the earth return to a period of time before humans even existed is a good idea, well, that's pretty brave of you.
In the 1970's world population was around 3.5 Billion and oil consumption was in the area of 5 Billion tons. Today world population has doubled and oil consumption has also dramatically increased and the average overall ambient temperature of the earth has only increased by 1.3 degrees hardly catastrophic. I really don't see the hysteria. I am more concerned about pollution than Climate Change/ Global Warming, whatever you want to call it.
Originally Posted by Mr MojoRisin
Again, the problem is not with right now. As I already stated, the changes are slow. If you are older, and this is probably the case for most people north of 30, it won't ever be a huge factor in your life. However, this is not about us, right now. It is about not leaving a whole host of potential huge problems for future generations.
Climate is changing all the time. Always has and always will.
Originally Posted by The2Dogs
Understood. Water falls out of the sky all the time. Always has and always will. That doesn't mean it's raining when I'm obviously pouring a bucket of water on your head from the roof.
than the very little that man as a whole can do to the climate....Hell one good volcano can fuck things up for years.
The main threat from a volcano, existentially - wait for it - is that it releases a lot of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. If a volcano can screw things up, we can certainly compete with the amount of CO2 released by a single, huge volcano. If you are concerned about a volcano because it can change the climate, when the humans are actually doing that through the same mechanism, it makes no sense to say that humans can't change the climate much nor that you aren't concerned about our release of CO2 into the atmosphere.