What Me Worry - Climate Change?
It was sort of a Rip van Winkle moment here for me, fighting through annoying error messages from this host that I have wasted too long trying to resolve for years. No way I would have guessed that my last appearance here was in September! Not that anyone hears this tree falling unless I catapult it out.
I ran across today perhaps the best and most succinct exhibition I have yet seen as to what we mean when we say "climate change," and likely due to human activity.
This is courtesy of Dan Satterfield, one of the meteorologists (another) that I tend to track regularly. They're very smart and opinionated. You might check them out if you are interested in weather, climate change, or the science (yikes!) involved in these pursuits and unafraid of troubling news.
Recent Dan:
The Climate’s Always Changing
This has to be the climate denier myth of the year, and it’s especially popular among politicians. I know of more than one climate expert, who upon hearing it from someone, likes to say:
“Really?? I had no idea!! All those courses, all that math! All that physics! No one ever said a thing about that! I should get my tuition back!”
Okay, there should have been a sarcasm tag in there somewhere, but I know you understood that.
But just look at Dan's graphs. The first shows temperatures for our orb for the last couple thousand years. That's freaky enough, the way the right side seems to be headed into orbit, but the second graph to me is even more scary, showing how even in the overall rise-and-fall pattern of one climate variable over more than ten thousands years, we are now experiencing something entirely new and quite disturbing.
That is giving you credit for respecting science and considering factual knowledge a matter of some importance. We are not going to convert any mouth-breathers with this post.
And Dan's parting words
So, the short of it is this: The silly claims by politicians that the temperature record (by 4 separate groups in 3 different nations) is not trustworthy, or that climate change stopped in 1999 (and all the other crackpot ideas) don’t amount to a hill of beans. If you want to prove that we have nothing to worry about, then you need to prove that greenhouse gases don’t trap heat. Good luck with that because you’ll have to overturn a century of physics.
And his footnote
Note: I wrote this for the many folks who hear this “climate is always changing” claim on cable news and from politicians. Don’t waste your time sending it to your uncle who thinks the chemtrails are real, and climate change is a commie plot, because it won’t work. When your are beyond accepting evidence based fact, there’s little that can be done. It’s just for those of you who have wondered what the real science looks like.
I ran across today perhaps the best and most succinct exhibition I have yet seen as to what we mean when we say "climate change," and likely due to human activity.
This is courtesy of Dan Satterfield, one of the meteorologists (another) that I tend to track regularly. They're very smart and opinionated. You might check them out if you are interested in weather, climate change, or the science (yikes!) involved in these pursuits and unafraid of troubling news.
Recent Dan:
The Climate’s Always Changing
This has to be the climate denier myth of the year, and it’s especially popular among politicians. I know of more than one climate expert, who upon hearing it from someone, likes to say:
“Really?? I had no idea!! All those courses, all that math! All that physics! No one ever said a thing about that! I should get my tuition back!”
Okay, there should have been a sarcasm tag in there somewhere, but I know you understood that.
But just look at Dan's graphs. The first shows temperatures for our orb for the last couple thousand years. That's freaky enough, the way the right side seems to be headed into orbit, but the second graph to me is even more scary, showing how even in the overall rise-and-fall pattern of one climate variable over more than ten thousands years, we are now experiencing something entirely new and quite disturbing.
That is giving you credit for respecting science and considering factual knowledge a matter of some importance. We are not going to convert any mouth-breathers with this post.
And Dan's parting words
So, the short of it is this: The silly claims by politicians that the temperature record (by 4 separate groups in 3 different nations) is not trustworthy, or that climate change stopped in 1999 (and all the other crackpot ideas) don’t amount to a hill of beans. If you want to prove that we have nothing to worry about, then you need to prove that greenhouse gases don’t trap heat. Good luck with that because you’ll have to overturn a century of physics.
And his footnote
Note: I wrote this for the many folks who hear this “climate is always changing” claim on cable news and from politicians. Don’t waste your time sending it to your uncle who thinks the chemtrails are real, and climate change is a commie plot, because it won’t work. When your are beyond accepting evidence based fact, there’s little that can be done. It’s just for those of you who have wondered what the real science looks like.
posted by Sir Gumbo at 10:38 PM
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