Do you think we're experiencing a climate shift?
10 Answers to "Do you think we're experiencing a climate shift?"
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Yes. Sea levels rising, temperatures going up on average, tornadoes where there never used to be any, melting ice caps and glaciers, etc.
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Oh yes
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Africa has become a desert causing a dramatic drop in their population and a mass migration into Europe. Rivers in northern China are now drying up at times of the year and within 20 years it is estimated it will become a dust bowel. The snow pack in the Rockies is disappearing and just this year Canada signed an agreement to provide to the US with water if necessary. In turn a nervous Mexico asked for reassurances from the US that we would keep supplying them with water. The rush to build damns and otherwise corral water is thought to be a major reason the oceans haven't risen dramatically.
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The climate is in a constant state of shift
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Yes, by the time we wake up it'll probably have be as bad was the dust bowl. Pretending nothing is happening until people start choking on our mistakes is how humans usually respond.
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Well yes. There's lots of evidence that our climate is change rapidly. Like thermometers. And looking at how catastrophic the weather is right now. Climate scientists, almost universally, have said that man-made global warming will have a catastrophic impact on humanity. Yes we're supposed to heat up right now, but not nearly this fast.
What gets me is that standard anti-global warming argument is "Weather is cyclical, we're just going into a hot period. It's totally natural."
Who, pray tell, figured out that our climate is cyclical? Could it be climate scientists? The same ones who now say that our current weather conditions are not natural or normal?Like (2)
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Ice ages of the past are pretty well agreed in the science community to have been the result of celestial impacts. So I agree. No it's not just going to cool down on its ownLike (1)
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Not really. I think we have become so reliant on heating and air conditioning that any weather out of our comfort zone makes us think it is not normal. I grew up with no air conditioning in our home and I spent lots of time swimming to beat the summer heat. I don't remember minding it at all.
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yes...
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the world is in a constant state of climate shift. The seasons come in seasons more or less powerful depending on the years and the balance of nature.
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Where do you come by this information?
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History. Everyone in my area is freaking out 'cause of the bad storms and now this last winter was really light when all the previous winters were record harsh. "It's global warming!" They cry. But if you look back at the stories from eighty to ninety years ago the same thing happened then (without the same amount of panic) There's always a cycle years of great plenty followed by years of famine. It goes round and round, our lives are just on too short a scale to remember it all.
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Posted by drdrizzle Jul 2nd, 2012 at 10:54AM
yes, I live by one of the biggest glaciers in the world and it is melting so fast it's shocking.
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Reply by MathMan789 Jul 2nd, 2012 at 10:57AM
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