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!
Wasn't the northern polar ice caps supposed to be gone and FL and large parts of the US coast under water by now? So much for predictions.
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No. That was politicians taking the worst case scenario and trying to frighten the bejesus out of folks with it. If I recall correctly the consensus was sometime after 2050 there would be Ice free summers in the Arctic. Greenland's Ice would melt and cause sea level to rise a good deal but I don't recall the date on that shit right now. I'm sure it was sometime late in this century as most likely.
Al the whore, hight priest of climate change, said it already should have happened.
Al Gore Ice-Free Arctic Update
The fact is, it's thicker than it has been in decades.
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Al Gore is not a scientist. He's a politician.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170724133153.htm
This older multiyear ice, once the bulwark of the Arctic sea ice pack, has dramatically thinned and shrunk in extent along with the warming climate: in the mid-1980s, multi-year ice accounted for 70 percent of total winter Arctic sea ice extent; by the end of 2012, this percentage had dropped to less than 20 percent.
"Most of the central Arctic Ocean used to be covered with thick multiyear ice that would not completely melt during the summer and reflect back sunshine," said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge's project scientist and a sea ice researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "But we have now lost most of this old ice and exposed the open ocean below, which absorbs most of the sun's energy. That's one reason the Arctic warming has increased nearly twice the global average
