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Re:What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? by mfer on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:29AM (#21115700)
I would suggest using something other than hurricanes (at least those in the Atlantic basin) as evidence of global warming. The existing observations aren't good for the support of global warming at this point [1].

To help aide in convincing more skeptics I would suggest observations that have held up under scrutiny.

[1] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/

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Re:What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? by corodra on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:06PM (#21116846)
Correct me if I'm wrong. What happened in Alaska, that heat wave, was BEYOND normal. Not by a little, but by a lot. They crushed a whole bunch of heat records that week, right?

Wouldn't that be the best poster child of global warming taking affect for at least 2019 (thus far)?

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Re:What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? by avar on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:14PM (#21118693)
No. There's scientific consensus on aggregate warming and overall destabilization of weather patterns. So we can say that generally speaking we'll have a higher chance of beating previous temperature records going forward.

That doesn't work the other way around when looking at single weather events.

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Re:What Kind of Problem Is Climate Change? by corodra on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:30PM (#21118851)
Yes, yes, weather and climate are two different things. It's like the analogy between a dog and a person walking the dog. The dog (weather) might weave all around in different crazy directions, but the human (climate) is the path you should be looking at.

The Alaska heatwave was a decent symptom of the general change in climate, no? At least in better respects than a hurricane.

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