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frankoyvind t1_iu89mla wrote

Reply to comment by scurvydog-uldum in TIL We are currently amidst the longest gap between EF5 tornadoes in history by Danielnrg

Well, I beg to differ.

There has been multiple predictions of more "extreme" weather. More rain AND less rain. More wind AND less wind. These predictions are less than useless. And now with the upcoming cop 27 in Egypt, media will be filled with doom and gloom the upcoming weeks.

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Danielnrg OP t1_iu8besu wrote

I mean predictions may be becoming less, well, predictable, but that is a consequence of the climate being less predictable because it's changing. Hence the "change" in "climate change".

That's as far as I know anyways, I won't pretend to know anything about any of this. It's all for scientists to figure out, and most scientists have said the climate change is happening and we can stop it by buying the Elon Musk cars and the Green New Deal. So I guess I'll be buying the Elon Musk cars and voting for the Green New Deal.

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PreOpTransCentaur t1_iu8bf1u wrote

There IS more wind and less wind, there IS more rain and less rain, there ARE more fires and less fires, there ARE more hurricanes and less hurricanes, there ARE more tornadoes and less tornadoes, you're just too fucking myopic to consider anything outside the specific microcosm in which you live as valid evidence.

You might as well have said "Dur hur it snowed this year, where's the global warming??" instead of risking a potential migraine from "over" "thinking" it like you did. You don't actually get to beg to differ, because you don't know what you're talking about.

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frankoyvind t1_iu99pt1 wrote

What is the predictive value of a hypothesis that predicts more AND less? It. Is. Useless. Or the old communism in the color green... But I repeat myself

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scurvydog-uldum t1_iu9mfb8 wrote

The IPCC begs to differ...

I feel like you're talking about the climate alarmism social movement, not the scientific theory of climate change.

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Danielnrg OP t1_iu8buqr wrote

This seems really confusing to me personally, I just trust the scientists to get us through this. My electricity company charges double from 4pm to 9pm, and I'm hoping stopping climate change will prevent that from happening. I could barely afford the energy bill as it was!

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pinzi_peisvogel t1_iu8b90g wrote

How is it so difficult to understand that climate and weather will simply change and is already doing so? You can have less rain and then one rain that is pouring down so much that it counts as more rain...like we had over here this year. This rain is totally useless for the soil. You can have less wind overall but then severe storms more frequent. The weather is going to be more volatile and different to the eco system than its used to, even though your personal momentarily feeling might be different.

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