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‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f
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I was having a conversationg with some red necks a few years ago. They were all talking about winter's not the same here anymore, above freezing half the winter, not as much snow, summer is weird is goes right through October now and we don't really get an autumn anymore.
"Weather's not like it used to be," one of thems said, and I said, "yep the climate is changing." They stared at me with their mouths open.
These retards are literally watching it happen with their own eyes and they still won't believe it. It's insane.
The biggest problem with politics these days is there can't be ANY overlap between the parties. They can't agree on ANYTHING. If a democrat says "I like breathing oxygen," a republican will say he prefers breathing something else. There's so much that people in both parties agree on in principle, but they can never say it. I think the left is more willing to agree with the right, because the left is more principled, but a republican is simply incapable of telling someone on the left "you're right and I agree with you." They instead have to be contrarian about everything. Whatever the left says, never agree with it, and make a statement of complete opposition, no matter what. When the left starts supporting a war against Russia, the right starts supporting Russia. It's sickening.
While it may be arrogant to insist it's all mankind's doing, it's foolish to assume it isn't.
My conservative family loves to use the arrogance argument. What I hear is that they don't want to believe humans can change the climate, because they're scared of humanity being responsible or accountable for their actions.
How is it arrogant to believe what every scientist says the data shows?
Yeah, here's what you tell them. Temperatures were at baseline when the industrial revolution began. That's just a handful of generations. We've now seen an increase of, what 2 degrees C since then? I don't know the exact number. The point is, this sort of increase is not present anywhere else in the geological record. It takes thousands of years for average global temperatures to naturally increase to a point like this one. There are literally no hard spikes--until the industrial revolution began. The only credible takeaway is that humans are the problem.
You’re right of course, but logical arguments aren’t the way with these people. It’s emotional at this point, and that is where you have to meet them.
Exactly
Which is why you threaten them with a knife!
The only way to win with these people is to not play
You are actually incorrect. Of course there are massive spikes like when a meteor hits or a super volcano erupts. But A that is not relevant. And B records can not show this, they don't have the chronological resolution to do that. Kind of the same way you can not measure the growth of hair over one day with a ruler, it is not possible. But over dozens of days it is possible. But how could you then tell if the hair grew much at one day and little on others? Your can't.
My housemate is like that, came up with some nonsense about how he saw a video the other day about how there was climate change happen when the Vikings were around or something so it's not as clear cut as people think. And today, with it barely breaking 20 degrees in July, said half jokingly that we need more carbon. The shit summer here this year is fuel for his fire. Complete moron.
Don't even waste your breath convincing idiots like that. They are too uninformed on too many topics to be worth investing the effort in. You've got a good shot at convincing people who are on the fence but culture warriors who rely on Steven Crowder for their talking points aren't going to be convinced by anyone or anything.
Yeah I've given up on him to be honest. Kind of sad, we grew up together and he used to be quite alternative but has been sliding into someone I don't recognise. I can't comprehend it and most of the time I just let him expose what an idiot he's become. Just the other day he said "Trump wasn't that bad, he was the best of a bad bunch". I could hardly believe it... absolutely staggering. But yeah, like you said, it's a lost cause and he will only get worse and lost in his toxic Facebook groups.
I'm no climate scientist, but from the research I've done, there are phases like this to Earth's natural climate cycle.... Earth has gone through very warm eras, and very cold eras, aka ice ages.
If you look back at our modern history closely enough, climate science in the early years of the industrial age showed that we were headed towards a new ice age with lower than normal global mean temperatures.... Clearly that didn't come to pass.
There's also an unprecedented amount of mammal biomass on the planet (Hank Green did a yt short talking about this recently); and I think it goes without saying that, there's an astronomical amount more pollution than before.
Examining the evidence, the climate is changing more rapidly and more extremely than before and the causes for this are obvious to anyone paying attention.... Simply, more people & mammal biomass, more industry, with next to no environmental protections that actually make an impact, with massive deforestation and destruction of sea life, where a significant amount of oxygen producing and CO2 filtering is happening.
So what I'm saying is, yes, there are "warming phases" to Earth's natural ecosystem, however this rapid and drastic of a change is uncharacteristic of the natural changes or planet naturally goes through. At the very least, people should recognize that the amount of pollution and destruction of the natural ecosystem is damaging our planet's ability to sustain life.... Like human life. So whether the environmental protections are because of climate change or simply a self serving goal of trying to keep our planet habitable by humans, long-term, honestly, everyone should support environmental protections.