2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth

Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth by afarrell on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:17PM (#14983112)

Part of the problem is that it is hard to convince people that 2 degrees farenheight difference would be all that bad. A lot of the talk is around keeping change "under 2 degrees" and a lot of the opposition is in the US.

Nobody in the US has an intuition for what a change of 2 degrees celcius feels like.

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Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth by Sangermaine on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:57PM (#14983533)

Please don't paint all of us with the idiot brush. It's not "opposition in the US", it's opposition from one party in the US. We were ready and willing, and had started under Obama, to combat climate change. It's the Republicans who have made opposition to even acknowledging climate change an article of their faith.

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Re:2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth by afarrell on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:57PM (#14993551)

> Please don't paint all of us with the idiot brush

I'm not. I grew up in the US and lived there for 26 years. How is it idiocy to lack an intuitive sense for a unit of measurement that you don't ever use?

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