July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa

Post by kristopolous » Thu, Aug 25, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

James001 wrote: post #467

kristopolous wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a pretty solid factual case for quantifiable damage here: floods in Louisiana, Texas, India, West Virginia and France and fires in California, Portugal and Canada. There's also decreased crop yield due to droughts and decreased fish yield due to ocean acidification. This is non-zero.

Almost all of those cases can have explanations that are not global warming related. For example, in Canada those fires were huge because of too-efficient fire suppression methods. Not enough controlled fires were done in that area and Fort Mcmurray expanded beyond its Fire Protection zone. Not every weather-related catastrophe is caused by global warming, that just harms the credibiltiy of that argument

better go change wikipedia then because it basically says 'climate change'.

Post by kleiba » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 8:06 PM UTC

Klathmon wrote: post #154

ThomPete wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What on earth does language have to do with it? Other countries write about climate change too :)

Because to a non-native speaker the 2 words can be confused as synonyms. Hell I didn't even know there was a distinct difference between the 2 words until just now (and i've been speaking english my whole life), and I had just assumed that these kinds of discussions were talking about the "long term" data.

I can't believe that I got downvoted so much just because somebody in a reply misconstrues my point and then others jump on the bandwagon.

Check again the starting comment: they make an analogy in which every month a new sprinting record is set. I then point out that such perceived "records" can be deceiving when it comes to climate because they might be local phenomena. I do this by giving a counter example to whatever "record" the OP was alluding to, namely that some parts of the world have not seen similar effects. My comment is not confusing weather and climate but is actually implicitly point it out: a series of new temperature records over the period of one year does not imply much in terms of climate.

I can't help but feel that the reason I got downvoted was not my comment but the way others reacted to it.

Re: July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa

Re: July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa