re: Shepard Smith claims that the National Weather Service lied

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Climate change skeptics are a strange bunch.

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Mostly cause they don't understand the difference btw weather and climate.....

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Climate change skeptics are a strange bunch.

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I can't speak for all the skeptics, but I will speak for myself. Geological history shows that the earth's climate has shifted from wet to dry and wet again, from heat to cold and back again, back and forth, for as long as there has been the earth.

So the premise that the climate may be changing is not something I take issue with. It likely is. In fact, if it was not changing at all, that would be the strange thing in my own mind. The weather changes, the climate changes, things that are not necessarily unrelated but not day to day.

Here's where I get skeptical. That widely spread notion that somehow climate change can be laid almost entirely at the feet of human beings and what we do. What I have seen is a near-doctrinal alarm being sounded for the rate of change to warmer temps, and against skeptics. To the alarmed, whatever changes seem too fast.

But I also note that the speed of warming does not match the speed at which some of the ice age descended on parts of the earth in past times. One case in point are the flash-frozen mammoths found in Siberia, still munching on whatever tropical vegetation they were eating at the moment the extreme cold hit them.

I just don't believe we really understand or even know all of the dynamics that are in play with our ever-dynamically changing climate and planet.

Anyway, that's just my two cents.