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"West coast burning, Europe, Asia flooding, Climate has changed".
Yup. The climate has change. It always has in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Maybe instead of putting all our energy into trying to stop it from changing we should be directing our efforts into adapting to those changes.
In this meta-analysis, they found 57 published papers from around the world that back up the assertion that climate change is increasing the risk of fire frequency and severity.
"The impact of anthropogenic climate change on fire weather is emerging above natural variability..."
"All papers show linkages between climate change and increased frequency or severity of fire weather, though some note anomalies in isolated regions. None of the papers support a widespread decrease in fire risk."
"West coast burning, Europe, Asia flooding, Climate has changed".
Yup. The climate has change. It always has in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Maybe instead of putting all our energy into trying to stop it from changing we should be directing our efforts into adapting to those changes.
You left the important bit out.
The change in climate is happening MUCH faster than in the past.
Scientists can see that.
What has changed? Well, us.
So BOTH need to be addressed. Preparing for the future, but trying to mitigate as much as we can. Lose the polar ice...and we are done.
A second town in BC has been destroyed, we have had a total of 1,410 wildfires to date, over 280 fires burning now and new fires every day, so far 2,252 square miles just in BC have burned. We've had no rain on Vancouver Island for 55 days now.
The rub of it is, I agree that Climate Change is a thing. I think that Climate Alarmism seriously undermines the credibility of the unerlying facts of climate change, but there's legit science at the heart of the case made for Climate Change.
Here's where everything goes horribly wrong: You can't convince anyone that Climate Change is a big deal by citing natural disasters when worse examples of those same natural disasters can be found in the past. The worst floods in human history are all a really long time ago, too early for man-made climate change to have been the underlying cause. Two pre-industrial Chinese floods killed millions of people, while none of the more recent floods have killed nearly so many. There are pre-industrial floods bigger than anything that has happened recently. Lots of them worldwide. There's a whole lot of wildfires that were really, really bad, that are likewise too far back to be caused by man-made Climate Change. The worst droughts all happened a very long time ago, with the Dust Bowl still being the worst the USA has ever seen. The Dust Bowl doesn't fit the Climate Change narrative.
Whether you're looking for the worst hurricane, worst tornado, or the worst example of anything else, the single worst is somewhere between 90 and 1000 years old.
You won't get far fear-mongering and pointing at the weather. You'll make a lot more progress doing what people like Elon Musk have done: Make green tech that is better than non-green tech.
Yes I'm in Canada and my air conditioning has been running since mid June.
On June 15th in Victoria it was 66 degrees. It didn't break 80 until the 20th. You had an unusual 4 day heat wave on the 25th thru 28th, where the temp got over 90 and peaked at 102. It was 75 on the 29th and 30th.
The average temperature for June of this year was 73.1 degrees. For June of 2020, it was 65.5, which was cooler than two years before that, which was 66.7.
Not sure if it's meaningful (not a math/stats geek), but I thought it'd be interesting to look at the total of the temperatures measured for the months of June of 2018-2021, and not just the daily averages. Averages get pulled up or down too easily in this context - there's only 30 samples in the set to average, so one or two days can disproportionately affect the result.
Totals for June of '21 to '18 (by year in descending order): 2193, 1964, 2086, 2002
June of '21 was definitely warmer overall, whether looking at averages or totals (if that matters). The heatwave at the end of the month seems to be the reason, for the most part.
Now that I've done my homework, I remain unconvinced that A. a four day regional heatwave is meaningful with regard to the larger climate debate, and B. that you've needed to run your air conditioner full time since mid June.
Basically I'm trying to educate the ignorant masses today.
By trolling as per usual.
Nothing more hypocritical than a socialist from Canada. Oil and American business are the only reasons Canada isn’t third world.
Last edited by PullMyFinger; 08-06-2021 at 04:36 PM..
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