Climate Change and the Statistics

I will allow it

12 inches of snow today in Yosemite. Middle of May

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how can we blame mankind now?

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Because they say so damn it....duh.

I think climate change is real. Honestly, I believe that we are in the middle of a shift in the global climate since man started keeping track of such things.

Here's my whole hang up with climate change. As the OP stated, the earth has gone through constant shifts in climate for 4.5 BILLION years. Long, long before the written word. It blows my mind that there are those who would claim the climate shift we're seeing today is 1.) the most dramatic in our planet's history and 2.) man made. You can't measure that. Over fishing along the coasts, cool let's fix it. Pollution? I'm in. Over hunting and/or the destruction of natural habitats for endangered species? Yep, I'll back that one too.

But man influencing climate change? Sorry, I won't bite. There isn't a computer model in existence that can predict the climate 500, 1000, 100,000, or 1 million years ago with any kind of true accuracy. If you can't truly measure it, you can't use it as evidence to support a theory.

The ideal average earth temp is approximately 5 degrees warmer than last century's average, according to sources.

Bring the heat.

As a comparison;
Mammoth has had 12 inches of snow in May.
in 2011: 27.5"
2010: 17.5"
2009: 11.5"
2008: 18"
2005: 25.1"
2003: 24.8"
2002: 15.8"
2000: 11"
1998: 21"

So this is not some kind of freak occurrence for the sierras.