The climate is changing as predicted by climate scientists. Their prediction is proved right by the statistics. No scientist can say for sure that any particular weather event is directly caused by global warming, but what has been predicted is that extreme weather events will increase in number. What is an extreme weather event? It could be any of the following; hurricane, tornado, flood, extraordinary heat and or wild fires, extraordinary cold, snowfall/crop freeze event. The inclusive requirement being at least $1billion in property damages (in inflation adjusted $).
So has there been an increase?
Let's go to the numbers. Following are the average number of extreme weather events by decade since 1980 when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a division of NASA ) began compiling the data.
1980's - 2.7 events per year
1990's - 4.9 events per year
2000's - 5.4 events per year
2010's - 10.3 events per year
We are now experiencing extreme weather events of at least $1 billion dollar in property damage at triple the rate we were in the 1980's. Science deniers will of course deny this information, because that is what they do...
To make it worse, Trump just nominated a science denying politician to head up NASA. Rep.Jim Bridenstine R. Oklahoma, who has no science background (first nominee ever without a science background) to head NASA. Already there is bipartisan push back. The Senate should reject this nominee. We must have someone leading who understands the scientific method and believes what the science shows.
Science makes predictions all the time that turn out to be true, for instance my wife and I just made a 1100 mile journey to a place predicted by science to be an optimal viewing location for the solar eclipse. We were there on the appointed day at the exact predicted time and low and behold the eclipse was exactly as predicted! Science works! Even on climate science!
Good, now you can answer a few of my little annoying questions that will piss you off.
Where does it say man is absolutely causing any climate change?
How about ALL of the predictions that have been absurdly wrong?
Why don't you tell all of us all of the things you are doing for the planet other than pushing the globalist propaganda?
Do you think by hating white republican American capitalists well enough is doing enough for the planet?
Do you truly believe retweeting Greenpeace messages reduces greenhouse gases?
What specifically was the Paris Accord suppose to do since so many of the biggest polluters in the world were not committing to it?
Do liberals want to go back to stone age technology since most metals we use rely on burning of fossil fuels? Like steel comes from icky coal.
Why are so many left wingers living along the ocean around the world, since they believe the sea levels are rising at such a fast rate?
Have you had enough of me using questions to illustrate your hypocrisy?