FX and others who think they’re being Zeno-like masters of intellectual balloon-popping, you might enjoy Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise. There’s a whole chapter about the Greenhouse Effect and climate change.
Warning - it’s not just anecdotal evidence and sound bites!
Well, there is little doubt the predictions of the IPCC and the consensus and the models were right.
Global warming set to bring colder, snowier winters
Cold Winters Driven By Global Warming
Damn you global warming. Damn you all to hell.
By the way, you can blame the Republican denialism cult for the name change.
[QUOTE=Frank Luntz]
“Climate change” is less frightening than “global warming”. As one focus group participant noted, climate change “sounds like you’re going from Pittsburgh to Fort Lauderdale.” While global warming has catastrophic connotations attached to it, climate change suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge.
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Meanwhile, the denial industry continues to try and muddy the waters.
Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming?
Stagnation? Shut the hell up. Global warming is killing the planet.
Prove to me you’re not a damned hypocrite – it’s been one year since Atlanta hit its all time record of 106 degrees on June 30 (since recording started in 1878). If you’re willing to base your assessment of current climate * change * on a single data point or even a single summer’s, then why weren’t you running around like Chicken Little a year ago?
It was too damn hot to run around last year.
Climate change must be wrong because it’s cold where I am, today.
Plus, the official records show 94.1 as the maximum for Atlanta. 87.1 for June 2012
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=ffc
Not that i doubt it can get to 106 in Atalanta.
It’s just not an official number.
Ok, so sometime in the last two hours FXMastermind forgot the difference between a month and a day.
Finagle, you and I got whooshed good.
It was at this baseball game I attended in Atlanta in June 2012. That’s official.
Nope, 105.
That says 104 in the METARS, 105 in the record, while NOAA says 106
(I was wrong, the http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=ffc site says 106 is the record for June)
Jesus, for a board that has as many smart, educated and erudite members, we also get a whole lot of idiots.
I blame the weather.
Ah the godwin against climate denier idiots, it is indeed the most idiotic move to declare this a religion, when the deniers reach for that they are no different from the countless pseudo scientists and woo woo proponents that accuse scientists of following religion, indeed it is a very common tactic of deniers of science and it is no less idiotic when used elsewhere.
And also as pointed by other in the thread, it was a Republican idea to “change” the name, actually there was no change, Global Warming and Climate Change are terms that have been used for more then 80 years.
Jeez, that Strasbourg is such a pussy!
global warming started dropping off, climate change wins, except Climate Change drops off and Global Warming wins.
That’s odd
You don’t get to cite books until you work out that month vs. day thing.
Both climate change and global warming show up for centuries
You just moved this thread so you could be insulting.