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Originally Posted by NickyC
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Originally Posted by Alfisti
TBH, I think we are starting to see the predictions manifest themselves. Weather be weird man, it's hot as hell damn near everywhere, there's drought in flat out weird places and it hasn't stopped raining in australia for damn near 3 years.
Shit be starting to get real.
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I remember when the historic cold snaps of the past years were just called "weather" and not climate. Now, the present day heat waves which are less serious than documented from just centuries ago are now solely due to "man made climate change".
The con men always want it both ways, and no shit is not starting to get real. It would only be getting real if there were no temperature variations. Change and weather patterns on our planet are constantly in flux with little to no impact caused by humans.
If anyone doesn't understand this, I highly suggest you study the temperature and climate changes on other planets in our solar system. Spoilers, according to your definition above shit gets real there too. Fortunately for those planets, there is no one to control, no one to tax, and no poor and middle income people to be screwed over. |
We understand the physics of climate change and we understand both the drivers of past climate change and what is likely to occur under different scenarios based on physics. We expect warming based on the very well known properties of GHGs. That's why scientists recombined over a century ago that our combustion of fossils fuels would likely warm the planet. This isn't a new idea.
No, we don't know every last detail, but we do understand the most powerful drivers of climate change more than well enough to make attributions and projects within a reasonable range of uncertainty.