Not looking for a political argument. I need facts. I am in no way a climate change denier, but I had a conversation with someone who told me the average increase is only 2°F over the past 100 years. That doesn’t seem like a lot and would support the argument that the climate goes through waves of changes naturally over time.
I’m going to run into him tomorrow and I need some ammo to support the climate change argument. Is it the rate of change that’s increasing that makes it dangerous? Is 2° enough to cause a lot of polar ice caps to melt? I need some facts to counter his. Thanks!
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Short answer, there’s about a 5°F window that the earth sits in where the glaciers are pretty much stable. They aren’t sucking up all the water in the ocean and converting it to ice and they’re not drowning us by getting too hot and releasing all the water. There’s a lot of wild fluctuations but they all kinda average out.
It took near 2000 years for the planet to go from a 3 down to a 2, and for a while scientists were worried that we’d start to see the glaciers gradually sucking up the oceans. Then we discovered fossil fuels and in 100 years we went from a 2 to a 4. That’s why people are concerned, it’s the acceleration. Like miles per hour, you can measure the speed we’re changing in fahrenheit degrees per millenia(fpm).
We just went from -0.5 fpm to +20 fpm extraordinary quickly.
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