Foolsguinea, you don’t have to convince me of Climate Change. I’ve already read the science and I agree with it. What I am arguing is that YOU do not understand the science, or even the concept. How do you know that global warming is causing your drought? Rising temperatures can just as easily cause increased precipitation. Hell man, here’s a quote from the linked article:
So let me state this again. Do not blame your local weather patterns on climate change. You can’t scientifically make that connection. Local weather is too unpredictable and there is just too damn many variables to consider before you try to tie the death of a couple of flowers to global warming.
Just to follow up on this, there’s a theory that global warming will in fact make the UK, where I live, cooler on average, due to interrupting the Gulf Stream. Nottingham, where I live, is north of Calgary, and almost 10 degrees north of Rochester, New York. The reason I mention the latter is I have a friend who’s lived in both, as well as in Aberdeen in Scotland, and says Rochester was far colder than either.Climate change, of whatever cause, will have far more complex effects than simply warming everywhere up.
We had an extremely mild and slightly damp Summer here in South Australia (and a very damp Autumn). Winter WAS shaping up to be quite mild, but in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a cold, wet snap that’s made it more traditionally wintery here.
I should have known. It’s an issue I see confused too frequently and it really sets me off. I really want to shout “Shut up! You clearly don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. You are an idiot.” It turns out that in this case, I am the fool.:smack:
Not that I don’t feel for your flowers (the ones I planted in March all wilted through a dry April and May, when I couldn’t water them) - but you do know that right now, East Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts of the last 60 years, after two years of no rainfall (Considering that the last 60 years include the 80s disaster in Ethiopia, that’s saying something). They expect millions of people to starve.
Man, East Africa has really lousy weather patterns. You’d think they’d get rain just from Indian Ocean moisture, but noooo, they have to wait for monsoons to come over from the Atlantic. Just freaking bizarre.
The '95 was mentioned because it became a huge meme on denialist sites, on the BBC interview of a few years back, a question was made regarding if there was a significant warming trend since 1995, Dr. Jones made the mistake of answering just like the denialist expected, he explained on the same interview that it was not, but just barely (there was still warming, but statistically speaking, not significant between the time frame questioned). As it turned out, the denialist knew that also, but that was the answer that was expected and the answer that was pasted in dozens of denialist sites (Physicist in email scandal now says there is no warming!).
Now that time has marched on and we can see if statistically speaking there was warming since 1995, the answer is yes.
Do not hold your breath expecting the denialist sites to mention that to all their followers.