The logic is, from the advocates, because we can't find any other cause, it's man made. Well there you go, perfect proof? (no I don't accept that logic)
But the fact is, the planet is warming, and has been. I don't buy into all the catastrophic results either. We often get news about how things will change when the ice melts, in 200 years. How record melts are happening now. Wait how much did the temperature change in the last century? "The global average surface temperature rose 0.6 to 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.1 to 1.6° F) between 1906 and 2005"
They are saying an average, whole planet, increase of 1.5 degrees, in a century, is causing all this melting?
Last of all, no matter which side you believe, scientifically or politically, I want to point out, that if the predictions of doom and gloom, melting ice caps, ocean levels rising, are true... it's too late. No amount of reduction in carbon emissions or anything else, is going to change the path we are on. Imagine a runaway freight train, going down hill, and now some people are going to put sticks and pebbles out to stop the inevitable crash when the train hits the curve at the bottom.
Puny humans, a world of them, if we stopped making anything that's possibly causing this increase, are unable to stop the planet from warming. (or cooling)
Climate change is just as much of a perception of the news, as a reality. We've had weather forever and there are changes, records made and broken. Somewhat accurate weather records only started in 1914. Really! 1300 to about 1850 was the little ice age which followed a previous warming period. We have had hurricanes, tornadoes, seasons with many and seasons with few. Drought, flooding, rain, snow, everything possible and more will come.
Last minor fact, for those who were fans of Miss Cleo and Jean Dixon types, who were wrong more than they were right, but people wanted to believe, many they only remember the good or vague predictions. After hurricane Katrina in 2005, climatologists and pundits of gloom, predicted, “For years now, experts have been saying we’ve entered a period of increased hurricane activity that may last a long time.” that was 2005 and then a decade later, 2015, not one category 3 or more, hit the US.
NOAA also added this: “There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase in destruction along our coasts.” As the years passed, the more obvious it was that fewer major hurricanes were hitting land. In April 2015, the American Geophysical Union reported that the United States has been in a nine year Atlantic hurricane landfall drought. A record low. AGU said, “Such a remarkable ‘hurricane drought’ has never been seen before – since records began in 1851 … the last major hurricane – of Category 3 or higher – to make landfall in the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.”
Note: 1851 as hurricane records go further back than weather records.
More tropical storms, stronger storms, warming ocean makes for a critical weather pattern, and what was the truth, looking back? A record low number of hurricanes. How many other predictions will be proven wrong and forgotten? Keep watching.
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