If you think it's unusual to use different colors to indicate different temperatures or that commercial, for-profit media has no interest in increased drama, you've got most of a universe to fix.
Unusual is not what I'm meaning. What was once considered weather and temperature, and folk got on with it, it's now emphasised as horrendous, as dangerous, as extreme etc.. So the question is, how did we survive warmer temperatures without the drama?
People's lives are affected by weather extremes. People get killed by weather extremes. Do you see no value in highlighting extraordinary conditions?
Florida does not spend 24/7/365 under hurricanes. They are not "normal conditions" and no one in Florida would willingly forego being warned about them in advance.
I think you and I are working with different definitions for "normal"
I would say that you are confusing average with normal. Hurricanes are a good deal more than a 2-sigma deviation from Florida's climatic averages for windspeed and rainfall.
I just did. That was YOUR failure.
And I showed him that temperatures in the UK have indeed risen, just like the rest of the planet.
Allow me to point out that the term "non-average" is essentially meaningless. If a Florida average of, say, windspeed, includes hurricane winds, those hurricane winds are not "non-average". You are the one who has not yet brought up standard deviation.
Standard deviations of what parameter over what time span? 50 years? Of course they're through the roof, temperatures have been moving in a single direction. What did YOU think was happening?
Way to necro a 15 year old thread.
I hope you're aware that as of this post, summer began 6 days ago.
Which means nothing. Nor does the fact that Last July brought the hottest average global temperatures scientists had ever seen. The long term trend of rising global temperatures is significant. By the end of this century we will have enough data to convince the climate change skeptics that God is changing the climate so there’s nothing that needs to be done.
If you start a thread making a factual claim you are REQUIRED by USMB to provide a link to a reference source. Where is your link to the meteorologists stating this is the second coolest summer on record, particularly since you posted this ONE WEEK BEFORE the start of Summer?
The thread is nearly 15 years old.
So what will this 'significant' temperature be by the end of the century? What temperature have the scientists claimed it will need to be for human extinction?
It is certainly possible to humans to be made extinct by a large enough temperature change. But...
Ah right, extinction is now off the table, I wonder what new scientific evidence was found to change their minds, maybe someone tweaked the climate model software.It is certainly possible to humans to be made extinct by a large enough temperature change. But...
“If I had to rate odds, I would say the chances of climate change driving us to the point of human extinction are very low, if not zero,” says Adam Schlosser, the Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a climate scientist who studies future climate change and its impact on human societies.
Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy civilization?
Almost certainly not—but unless we act quickly to stop warming the planet, there will be very severe consequences for many, many people.climate.mit.edu
No one in mainstream science ever thought that global warming presented a significant threat of human extinction. That claim came from your side of this debate.
Omg, lol
If you disagree, please show us some mainstream climate scientists warning of a risk of extinction.
....2009
Really? Is this supposed to be an OP Where the **** is the source? "Meterologist have stated..........: Are you ******* serious.? Thanks for further dragging down the level of dicourse on this board,
