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Climate Change Question...not regarding man made or natural cycles...

Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:32 am
Posted by sidewalkside
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Member since Sep 2021
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Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:32 am
Can we at least agree the climate is changing?

I don't care if it's man made or natural cycles.

"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently and there is no doubt about that so let's stop arguing if it's man made or natural.
Posted by Mike da Tigah
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Member since Feb 2005
61343 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:34 am to
Certainly it’s changing. I don’t know that that has ever been in question really. It’s just man affecting the climate that has always been the real debate. The earth’s climate has always fluctuated throughout existence.



Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
37662 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:34 am to
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Can we at least agree the climate is changing?


I don’t think you’ll find anyone who thinks differently…..

The argument is over how much impact humans have.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
135104 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:35 am to
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Can we at least agree the climate is changing?
We're in an Ice Age. Stadial-Interstadial climate change is the defining element.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:35 am to
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Can we at least agree the climate is changing?


Of course it is. It always is

And a warmer planet is better for humans and animals than a colder one ackchually
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 10:36 am
Posted by CatholicLSUDude
Member since Aug 2018
1030 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:37 am to
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"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently and there is no doubt about that


What in the world are you talking about?

Look, you can slice "extreme weather events" into any timeframe or arbitrary grouping you want to make any point you want. Cut it one way, and you can scream it's getting worse. Cut it another, and you can say it's the same as always. And we don't have that much data, historically speaking, about how frequent "extreme weather events" occurred. You have no idea when you start getting more than a few hundred years back.

So, there is plenty of room to doubt extreme weather events picking up in frequency.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175388 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:40 am to
There’s a lot more that goes into it than just saying climate change. Population growth, urban sprawl, people living in places we didn’t in the past. Everyone decided they wanted a house or a condo on the beach so hurricanes are costlier.. which is a metric some people like to use. (Yes, one just caused a lot of damage in the mountains; but it’s not the first time they’ve been wiped out in flood.)
Posted by Lou
Modesto, CA
Member since Aug 2005
8609 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:40 am to
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"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently
Show me your data.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:40 am to
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I don't care if it's man made or natural cycles.


Right when 100% of it can be explained by natural occurrences, Hunga Tonga volcano, La Niña…

Why focus on driving factors when the white man bad narrative is so juicy?
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
147871 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:40 am to
Nothing is static baw other than your sex life
Posted by Audustxx
Member since Jul 2022
2178 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:41 am to
Just after Al gore invented the internets he discovered climate changes. What a guy!,
Posted by bayoudude
Member since Dec 2007
25828 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:41 am to
I think the extreme part is more to do with media hype and people being softer than in the past. Plus increased development leads to more damage for the same intensity of past storms.
Posted by JimTiger72
Member since Jun 2023
15576 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:43 am to
quote:

"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are happening more frequently


Proof?
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
14735 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:43 am to
Yea.

But those two jets Taylor Swift keeps flying around sure aren’t helping.
Posted by Strannix
C.S.A.
Member since Dec 2012
52728 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:44 am to
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Can we at least agree the climate is changing?


As compared to what time period and what particular metric? Im genuinely curious, what has changed from today to - pick a point in the past.
Posted by WDE24
Member since Oct 2010
54836 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:44 am to
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The argument is over how much impact humans have.
And what are reasonable/effective responses to whatever the human impact is?
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
293324 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:45 am to
Its both.

However, the doomsday prophets of climate change have filled our heads with so many fairy tales that havent come true, they have become their own worst enemy.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71112 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:47 am to
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There’s a lot more that goes into it than just saying climate change. Population growth, urban sprawl, people living in places we didn’t in the past.

This impacts pretty much every type of weather event, too: tornadoes, flooding, wildfire, heavy snow events, all of it. Wildfire may be the most glaring example, even moreso than hurricanes.
Posted by wm72
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2010
9000 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:49 am to
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what has changed from today to - pick a point in the past.


average hurricane season water temperatures in the gulf of mexico to, say, the time period that they've been measured?
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
62413 posts
Posted on 10/9/24 at 10:50 am to
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"Extreme weather events" (I know this is a loaded term) are 'happening more frequently and there is no doubt about that so let's stop arguing if it's man made or natural.


Data have shown that this is not necessarily the case. Maybe it's because more people are living in areas affected by extreme weather (like hurricanes) exaggerating its impact. Pretty much no one lived in Florida until the 20th century now it's the third most populous state behind California and Texas.
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