Hey, Global Warming skeptics. . . does the constant breaking of weather records make you wonder if you are wrong ?
Stormy
2012/07/05 06:52:35
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I was watching CNN last night and they were chatting about the sweltering heatwave that has descended upon the US this week. The weather guy said after thirty years of doing weather, he has never seen anything like the extremes in weather the US has been experiencing over the last few years. The temperatures in the last week in the US have been on a par with every desert in the world. The rainfall records are constantly being broken throughout the US and the world, as a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, and what goes up must come down eventually. . .in the form of extreme precipitation. . .otherwise known as rain. Flooding of rivers around the world has seen the loss of many thousands of homes from Australia and NZ to India, America, Asia and Europe. Wild fires from sweltering temperatures have also claimed many homes. Tornadoes have destroyed entire towns in the US and are appearing in unusual places like Venice or Auckland, or parts of Japan. Record blizzards and cold have closed businesses and airports in Europe and the US, leaving passengers stranded for days as runways froze over. Destructive storms have wreaked havoc, destroying power lines by ripping huge trees out of the ground with strong winds. Lightening has killed golfers and sparked huge wildfires. Soooo. . . anyone want to change camps and admit you were wrong. The scientists were right to warn us of climate change, because hello. . . here it is . In your face climate change caused by Global warming. Have you got the courage to admit you were wrong and apologize, or are you still too arrogant and pig headed?
People just get farther and farther from nature - like when the heat rises - humans move inside to their AC and live comfortably. No one wants to suffer the pain to make the correct changes.
go figure.
It's up to the people to change how they do things because Big Oil doesn't care about the planet or it's inhabitants. It cares only about it's own profits.
1] science refutes your statement. are you a scientist?
2] polio and smallpox were natural. I guess we shouldn't have developed vaccines.
I'm truly sorry for the suffering you are going to undergo during the next 70 or so years due to the fact that politicians don't want to spend the money necessary to take care of the myriad problems that are coming.
count on it - they will wake up one day. after the damage is done it's too late to actually do anything to lessen the pain.
I'm sorry.
and, when they did - - evidence shows us what happened when the changes occurred: they died.
the settlements that have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea attest to that. also all along the coasts of Italy and Greece and where the English Channel now flows.
you live on an island and you're not concerned? seriously?
but, hey, we shouldn't do anything about it - - even though lots more people stand to die now than in ancient times and even though we now have the technology to see it coming and do something to mitigate it.
you may be "going to" choose science, true enough. but you're not there yet.
meanwhile, YOU stand to lose much more than I do. I'm likely to be dead in 20 years and miss the worst of what science tells us is on the horizon. you're likely to be around for much more of it than I.
and you're not concerned. now THAT'S difficult to wrap my mind around.
p.s. I notice you didn't answer my question about the naturally occurring polio and small pox viruses. that's convenient.
Not only do we have plenty of scientific evidence but it's all there for all to see with all this extreme weather we've been having, as was predicted by climate scientists.
I'm just someone who believes that although climate change is happening,. by the time we (the people, governments etc of the world) ever get around to creating a decent enough plan to tackle it, it'll already be too late.
Not sure if this makes me a fatalist or a realist, but I don't think it ever made me a sceptic..
... and this is exactly what is now being observed -
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1...
So we are already seeing more of the 'warm extremes' (although interestingly the cold extremes haven't changed so much). Inevitably this is going to increase as global warming continues, so we can expect more frequent heatwaves, more frequent intense flooding events, and higher incidence of droughts. The longer it goes on, the more of the world's population will have direct, personal and painful experience of these extreme events.