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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You know how sometimes the air temp gets below freezing, but there’s no snow because there not enough moisture in the air in the form of clouds?
If you warm the surface of the oceans two more degrees, there is much more moisture up in the air streams.
It may not come down where it used to come down. It changes patterns, and the extra moisture might cause the rain to form sooner, instead of reaching up into the mountains before it can form rain/snow.
Think of snow as “time released rain”. Its vital for river formation and irrigation. If the rivers only flowed water when it rained in the mountains, the rivers would have less water on any given day, and they would also flow less water over time.
Places that used to regularly get rain will now get less rain. Other places that normally got a little rain occasionally will get rain more often, and heavy rainstorms.
Moisture in the air drives many weather phenomenon. Hurricanes have been around forever, but more moisture means any hurricane that forms will be bigger.
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