Don’t worry about it, you can just sell your home to Aquaman Ragnaros.
I’m wondering where this climate change is at tbh, 2:24 PM here on an August afternoon and it’s still a fairly cool 67 degrees outside
This is odd to me since August is typically known for 90+ temperatures. Forecast shows a bunch of low 80’s for the upcoming week
This whole “summer” has been unusually cool where I live, don’t know what the deal is
My condolensces if you happen to live in one of those “hot spots” like Arizona/Texas/Florida/etc
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Neither, and that’s insulting to the extremely large body of scientists, researchers, and experts whose knowledge base spans dozens of disciplines.
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where is ur data from? just curious.
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The way I see it, is fossil fuels produces extra carbon emissions that the natural conversion cycle can’t keep up with and “green” energy sources and machinery destroy habitats and pollutte to the point nothing will grow or live, thus lessening natural things like plant life and trees that naturally convert carbon. So in the long run both are lose lose. But ppl are so scared of the absolute best option for us and the planet, nuclear, because a borderline 3rd world country built a shoddy reactor and ran it with incompetent personnel and had an accident.
Loamm is just a premonition of our future. We mistakenly keep building up towards the fireball in the sky. Though we’re also pumping out enough groundwater to change the earth’s tilt over the last few decades.
Which… if anything is more scary than climate change it’s rapidly throwing the earth off her axis. The oceans will have a catastrophic sloshing effect as they follow the path of the planet’s core and moon’s gravity.
I like a spicy choose your own adventure for apocalypse.
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You believe the average temperature, in the southwest US, within five years, is going to be…135 F ?
Did you think about this for even a moment before parroting it online for all to see?
I mean, climate change and global warming are for real…but this kind of hyperbolic insanity doesn’t help convince the nay-sayers. In fact, I think it makes things worse.
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It doesn’t help that a lot of these projections are from non-scientific groups or media outlets who don’t know how to intepret the data.
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Ignore projected climate doomsdaying. They’ve been consistently wrong on all of their predictions for nearly 100 years.
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I’m almost 50. The number of times I’ve been told Los Angeles was supposed to be under water by dates that have come and gone is almost beyond count.
Same with losing the polar caps.
Same with extinction of large animals like polar bears.
That said, our climate IS warming. What scientists DON’T agree on is how fast, how bad, what exactly the consequences will be, what the specific causes are, and what we should do about it.
It seems that the camps at both extremes, however, are likely quite wrong. It is not a deep-state conspiracy to turn you into a slave, nor is the world ending in the next 20 years with massive flooding and deadly heat-waves.
People on both extreme ends of this issue slow down and prevent real dialog and progress on these types of issues.
This is true for a lot of things…
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It seems Arizona is too cheap to turn on their outdoor AC. Texas hasn’t turned ours on in months…
Seriously though, summer has been hotter the last few years than I remember while growing up.
It would be nice if we stopped polluting our air/bodies of water and soil, not just for ourselves, but for other sentient beings that share this planet with us. 
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Solar cycles are a thing, some lasting decades.
Weather and climate aren’t determined entirely by what happens on this planet. In fact, most of what occurs here is determined by what’s happening with the Sun.
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Exactly right. Overly focusing on things like CO2 emissions get in the way of objectively looking at the real facts.
I used to live, well survive, in Tucson for almost 10 years.
I’ll take the Minnesota winters over Arizona summers every time.
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Solar cycles do not affect temperature. This is bunk science.
“The claim that solar cycle length proves the sun is driving global warming is based on a single study published in 1991. Subsequent research, including a paper by a co-author of the original 1991 paper, finds the opposite conclusion. Solar cycle length as a proxy for solar activity tells us the sun has had very little contribution to global warming since 1975.”
Those are the real facts though, anthropogenic greenhouse gases are the problem. Methane and HFCs and PFCs are arguably worse than CO2 but CO2 is still an issue.
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move to Wisconsin!
Decent temp during the summer, more water than you know what to do with, housing isn’t stupid, winters aren’t as bad as people lead you to believe.
Please understand that I am not saying CO2 isn’t a major contributor. I stand by my statement that overly focusing on CO2 emissions can get in the way. I am in no way advocating that we stop researching CO2’s role and things we can do about it.
As somebody who worked as a scientist for many many years (bio not eco, to be fair), I find the “we already know everything, people just need to listen” attitude very alarming. We, in fact, do not know everything or even close to it. That is why we need to cut out these types of definitive statements and focus on learning more.
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Yeah but the reason Cali was most often proposed to be going under was due to catastrophic earthquake inside the I-5 corridor, rather than more recently attributed to climate change.
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Fair enough. I’ve heard New York brought up too. Earthquakes were talked about a lot, yes, but also raising ocean levels.
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