Earth's Hottest Month

[ruffdog]

This thread would be easier to accept if we (south Texas) didn't have one of the coldest winters on record or coolest and wettest summers. We typically hit the 100+ temps by late March or early April and continues into September. I don't remember it hitting 100 yet this year. And I'm still mowing grass.

What YOU are looking at is called weather and it happens outside YOUR window. Climate on the other hand affects large areas and is studied over many years to observe trends.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It’s all about money and power, not climate.

 

[Peace]

Reminds me of a previous post this morning:
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/6b8ec327-3c38-4c09-ad88-d6a267a40045-jpeg.709833/

 

[Midniteoyl]

This thread would be easier to accept if we (south Texas) didn't have one of the coldest winters on record or coolest and wettest summers. We typically hit the 100+ temps by late March or early April and continues into September. I don't remember it hitting 100 yet this year. And I'm still mowing grass.

That's because it went from 'cooling' to 'warming' to now just 'climate change'.

Also, when temps were first being recorded around 1850, it was right at the end of the 'Little Ice Age' which means we started out cooler then normal anyways. And not many years before that was the 'Year w/o a Summer' global cooling event that dropped the global temps by ~1*f that we also were still recovering from. Sure, we are supposedly higher in temps now than when these events started, but not by much, and the "highest recorded since the 1800's" temps are skewed as we started lower than normal to begin with.

edit: keyboard can't spell...

 

[bcp]

Climate is what you expect.

Weather is what you get.


Bruce

 

[/pine]

FWIW...Bangor Maine recorded the coldest February ever this year...setting new all time records...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If you look at everything going on today, there is a tendency to try to redefine terms, or use confusing terms. They used to refer to "Global Warming", when there was too much push back, they changed it to "Climate Change". Climates always change, so more people will be onboard with that, but they mean Climate Change in one temperature direction.
I try not to lose sleep over things that is outside of mankinds control.

 

[dirttoys]

. . . But, there are circumstances where the inability to reach a constructive conclusion can wipe out humanity. And there are those who frivolously ensure this inability is sustained.

To your first point, we probably haven't reached a constructive conclusion on nuclear weapons, and they could certainly cause a near extermination event.

Climate change?
If we were to commit all of our resources, we might be able to forestall/delay a climate that would be incompatible with human life. We all believe we are more important and powerful than we are.

Surely, even the most narcissistic politician/"scientist" doesn't believe we can control the climate indefinitely? We can't even get a little extra rain in Cali after all these years and investments in cloud seeding. The real question is: how much convenience/freedom would you give and ask others to give, for an additional 5 years of having Florida slightly above sea level?

To your second point, frivolous is in the eye of the beholder. The goal is always money/power, never cleaner air or more freedom for the people. People lie, use bad statistics, and suppress history because it works. Until that stops, we are individually responsible to look at the media with critical eyes, and follow the money around our elected officials before we take a position on an issue.

Best,

ed