Is ocean acidification "global warming"?
Is increased storm intensity "global warming"?
Are changes in rain patterns "global warming"?
Are shifts in ocean currents "global warming"?
Is the recession of the West Antarctic grounding line "global warming"?
Is the increase in Antarctic sea ice "global warming"
Are the changes in the timing of a thousand biological cycles "global warming"?
The evidence for global warming is correct and it is overwhelming. You have no refutation. You have no replacement causation. You have virtually NO scientists on your side of this argument.
In your MIND -- all those things are Global Warming. They include observations that have THOUSANDS of alternate explanations. But are convieniently lumped into the pot of gold that is "global Warming" research..
First, don't waste everyone's time here trying guess what is in my mind.
Second, I provided that list in response to the tired "global warming -> climate change" comment made by those too ignorant to know better. It is simply a small collection of other, secondary AGW effects, the inclusion of which might suggest to someone discussing the topic that they use a more inclusive term. They are NOT part of my definition of AGW. I have given you my definition on more than one occasion and I stand by my prior statements. I have also suggested a number of ways you ought to be able to falsify it, particularly if any of the many claims you and yours have made were actually true.
The biggest defeat in recent history for your claims that to see "global warming" you only need to read the weather news
I have never made any such claim and I would not do so. Save it for your straw man.
came at a July 13 2013 Senate hearing that the Dems expected to be a celebration of all things Global Warming. They coughed up hairballs when asked to defend the statements about recent weather events being CAUSED by GW.
When have I EVER given the impression that I thought the US House or Senate were good sources for accurate science information? If you'd wanted an explanation as to how global warming could have produced the cold weather extremes experienced in the US midwest and northeast, you could have asked me. I explained it here several times: Rossby waves caused by a reduced temperature differential between the equator and the poles - remember? Going to some denier blog's description of a congressional dog-and-pony show, however, was just plain stupid.
And the THEMEwas that there was TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON GLOBAL warming measurements and that Climate Change is a REGIONAL EFFECT.
I'm sorry, but I remember no such thing. I would have paid very little attention to anything going on in Congress in this regard, but I should think it would have been mentioned here and I recall no such thing coming up. Are you sure you're not just making this stuff up?
So there is your reason for changing the name.. Easier to find terrifying examples. Less need to tie them to a GLOBAL theory of any kind..
Are you suggesting that the term "climate change" replaced "global warming" on 13 July 2013? You realize how simple that is to prove wrong? Please stop wasting our time. Remember Thumper's Mom: "If you don't have anything useful to say, don't say anything at all".
You can't show extreme weather events in the news to be GLOBAL or even due to the WARMING --- So the focus is now on CLIMATE CHANGE, which can be regional and does not HAVE to be traced back to the tenets of Global Warming theory.
You look foolish trying to set artificial constraints on me. Do you actually think any region of the Earth is permanently immune to extreme weather events or that it is necessary that the entire planet suffer such events simultaneously before we can say they are happening? We've had Katrina, Sandy, midwest flooding, western droughts and the Polar Vortex. The Philippines had Typhoon Haiyan while the Pacific as a whole suffered 13 typhoons, five of them classified as "super". The Rossby Waves that put the northern US in the deep freeze all winter left other portions of the northern hemisphere in unseasonably warm weather.
I will have no trouble finding extreme weather events world wide - and it will only get easier to do so as global temperatures rise. BTW, unless its the actual topic of conversation as it is here, I almost never, ever use the term "climate change".
