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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Also it’s 2 degrees Celsius which is 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (just in case you’re in the US). Tell him to think of it like a fever in the human body. In F terms, If avg human temp is 98.6, a temp of over 101 will wear you out real fast and it’s not sustainable. Ecosystems are sensitive just like bodies. And the idea of the 2 degrees flattens the line of extreme heat waves and extreme cold snaps indicative of climate change. The intensity of weather events isn’t clearly conveyed when we think – what does 2 degrees matter. It matters because if there are days or weeks when everything gets so hot that people plants and animals die- yikes. Same for the reverse. We could also say who cares if sea levels rise a couple of feet, but just ask the 5 million people it would displace. A little goes a long way in living systems.
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