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Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Post by fleitz »

caiob wrote: post #2

My city wasn't founded until 1934, how does NASA have stats from 1894?

Stop questioning, start panicking. If you want to make a difference start recycling, buy some solar panels, and think about how amazing it is to be poor in exchange for saving the planet.

If more people gave 10% of their income we can stave off the apocalypse, end of humanity, rapture, end times, whatever you want to call it. The rich will never inherit the kingdom of Mother Earth.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Post by gavanwoolery »

http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI

Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial.

Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warming, I'm just saying that correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

(And for the record, I'm not pushing one political agenda or the other, I'm just trying to look at a given data set rationally).

Edit: either way, I encourage the pursuit of clean energy and reusable resources.

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Post by FollowSteph3 »

gavanwoolery wrote: post #6

http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial. Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warm…

Don't forget we're also near the end of a mini ice age so we should be expecting the earth to heat up. A lot of people forget this. Antarctica was once warm...

Re: Your Warming World: Climate change where you live 1894 – 2013

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Post by gavanwoolery »

FollowSteph3 wrote: post #8
gavanwoolery wrote: post #6

http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI Look at the Dow Jones index. If you look at it today, it looks like a dramatic drop. If you look at it in the span of several years, that drop looks somewhat trivial. Same thing goes for climate change. Go back 1 billion years, and you will find that the earth has warmed and cooled far more dramatically than in the last 100 years. I'm not denying anthropogenic global warm…

Don't forget we're also near the end of a mini ice age so we should be expecting the earth to heat up. A lot of people forget this. Antarctica was once warm...

By some predictions we are going into another mini-Ice Age (Ice Ages are typically preceded by climbing temperatures, which might seem counter-intuitive but a similar phenomenon is when you experience several warm, sunny days and then it suddenly gets very cold).
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