# You know, we should chat about global warming
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 21, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365 "2015-10-21T16:32:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/1 "2015-10-21T16:32:06Z")
Has anyone ever noticed that it still gets cold sometimes? Especially in winter? What’s up with that?
Seems like this could be a fruitful topic.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/2 "2015-10-21T16:41:36Z")
It will be nice to see a certain thread disappear from the main Pit page.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/3 "2015-10-21T16:41:54Z")
Fuckheads, SCIENCE!
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/4 "2015-10-21T17:38:03Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Has anyone ever noticed that it still gets cold sometimes? Especially in winter? What’s up with that?
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> Seems like this could be a fruitful topic.
Try turning off the air conditioner.
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/5 "2015-10-21T17:39:02Z")
> [@bobot](#):
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> It will be nice to see a certain thread disappear from the main Pit page.
Thursday 11:42 PM CST. I’ll be refreshing the page, then raising a glass in celebration.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/6 "2015-10-21T18:13:14Z")
I’d chat, but it’s so cold my teeth are chattering!
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/7 "2015-10-21T18:55:46Z")
OK, everybody!! Coast is clear! We can now admit that Global Warning is a complete hoax!
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/8 "2015-10-21T19:05:01Z")
> [@Trion](#):
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> OK, everybody!! Coast is clear! We can now admit that Global Warning is a complete hoax!
Can’t now. Too busy fudging data.
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### Author:  [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/9 "2015-10-21T19:10:10Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Has anyone ever noticed that it still gets cold sometimes? Especially in winter? What’s up with that?
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> Seems like this could be a fruitful topic.
I thought the fruitful tropic was the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
With a warm winter maxima of around 72F (22C), that cold temp must be a welcome change from the 113F (45C) summers.
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### Author:  [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/10 "2015-10-21T21:01:24Z")
Twill be a cold winter here in New Hampshire.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/11 "2015-10-21T21:31:24Z")
It is hopeless, I tried to honestly debate the subject but the crazed chewbaca defense tactics of some posters just exhausted me. Easier to talk about unimportant things like movies and TV shows. I’ll save talking about Climate Change to actual people and I barely even do that at this point.
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### Author:  [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/12 "2015-10-21T22:00:39Z")
I was hoping all the morons who bought in to Al Gore’s super awesome rising seas theory 15 years ago would’ve sold their beach front property and moved the fuck away from me by now but unfortunately that never happened.
I guess the only people who benefit from that hoax is the assholes who fly their gas guzzling private jets to 100 thousand dollar climate speeches.
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/13 "2015-10-21T22:39:08Z")
Well, there you have it. Erudite and educated opinion from a renowned scholar.
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/14 "2015-10-21T22:46:45Z")
> [@Trion](#):
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> OK, everybody!! Coast is clear! We can now admit that Global Warning is a complete hoax!
Wait…man-made global warming or natural changes in global climates like what happened to make that last ice age and junk?
We need a jumping off point…
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/15 "2015-10-21T22:53:09Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Has anyone ever noticed that it still gets cold sometimes? Especially in winter? What’s up with that?
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> Seems like this could be a fruitful topic.
I get cold when I shower and go out to the mailbox before drying off.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/16 "2015-10-21T23:05:49Z")
Gobbler warming comes with Thanksgiving leftovers.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/17 "2015-10-21T23:23:50Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#):
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> I was hoping all the morons who bought in to Al Gore’s super awesome rising seas theory 15 years ago would’ve sold their beach front property and moved the fuck away from me by now but unfortunately that never happened.
Exactly! And insurance companies aren’t revising their business models and charging higher premiums in response to the supposed increased risk from this alleged climate change, either! See, it was all a hoax!!
[Oh. Wait a minute.](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-the-insurance-industry-is-dealing-with-climate-change-52218/?no-ist)
> [@](#):
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> How the Insurance Industry Is Dealing With Climate Change
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> \*n recent years, the industry researchers who attempt to determine the annual odds of catastrophic weather-related disasters—including floods and wind storms—say they’re seeing something new.
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> “Our business depends on us being neutral. We simply try to make the best possible assessment of risk today, with no vested interest,” says Robert Muir-Wood, the chief scientist of Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a company that creates software models to allow insurance companies to calculate risk. “In the past, when making these assessments, we looked to history. But in fact, we’ve now realized that that’s no longer a safe assumption—we can see, with certain phenomena in certain parts of the world, that the activity today is not simply the average of history.” […]
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> But even in the short term, Muir-Wood’s team has determined, the risk of a variety of disasters seems to have already shifted. […]
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> Moving forward, Muir-Wood’s group will attempt to keep gauging the shifting likelihood of a range of extreme weather events, so that insurers can figure out how much to charge so that they can compete with others, but not be wiped out when disaster strikes. In particular, they’ll be closely looking at changing the model for flooding rates in higher latitudes, such as Canada and Russia—where climate is shifting more quickly—as well as wildfires around the planet.
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> On the whole, it seems likely that insurance premiums for houses and buildings in flood-prone coastal regions will go up to account for the shifts Muir-Wood is seeing. […]
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> **For his own part, Muir-Wood puts his money where his mouth is. “I personally wouldn’t invest in beachfront property anymore,” he says, noting the steady increase in sea level we’re expecting to see worldwide in the coming century, on top of more extreme storms. “And if you’re thinking about it, I’d calculate quite carefully how far back you’d have to be in the event of a hurricane.”**
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/18 "2015-10-21T23:28:09Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#):
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> I was hoping all the morons . . .
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> I guess the only people who benefit from that hoax is the assholes . . .
Well, the climate has improved a little, but there are still pockets of foul air.
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/19 "2015-10-21T23:39:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> Well, the climate has improved a little, but there are still pockets of foul air.
But at least it’s the kind of idiocy I can appreciate. Sure, **canned mayhem** is scientifically clueless and just parroting what he heard on Fox, but at least he has a decent thesis statement you can argue against.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/20 "2015-10-21T23:40:30Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#):
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> I was hoping all the morons who bought in to Al Gore’s super awesome rising seas theory 15 years ago would’ve sold their beach front property and moved the fuck away from me by now but unfortunately that never happened.
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> I guess the only people who benefit from that hoax is the assholes who fly their gas guzzling private jets to 100 thousand dollar climate speeches.
20 year old snark award. Timely. This is just the break that…um…one of Al Gore’s opponents has been waiting for!
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