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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by zamalek on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:55AM (#28940431)
The weather is a dynamic, non-stationary system, that is hard to predict. Climate works on 30 year cycles. There is some stuff we are uncertain about: Californian wildfires as one example: are they natural, are they manmade (for climate or forestry reasons), or a combination. We'll know for sure in maybe 60 years. For the very significant vast majority, we know for an absolute and utter fact.

https://www.livescience.com/siberian-wildfire-smoke-reaches-...

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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by adamrezich on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:45AM (#28940787)
> Climate works on 30 year cycles.

without having any standing at all in the field, I can't imagine that such a simple, reductive statement could possibly be generally true about something as physically massive and chaotic and infinitely, fractally complex as the planet's climate.

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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by zamalek on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:48AM (#28944312)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_we...
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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by adamrezich on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:46AM (#28945239)
there's a huge difference between "Some scientists define climate as the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years" and "climate works on 30 year cycles"
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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by zamalek on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:24PM (#28952054)
You are correct. Even with my flawed (sleep deprived) wording, the same conclusion exists: climate is an average, it is not weather

My argument stands.

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Re:Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change... by cryptoegorophy on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:38AM (#28940737)
There are cycles within cycles as well. history of sea ice in the arctic https://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/jbg/Pubs/Polyak%20etal%20s...
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