hmmm, it seems we all have a little to say about this.
@ Lord Bones Nothing is unusual if only 100 years is used as a comparison of numbers.
@ Paul Stevens It's hard to argue with zero, it has it's worth, for we're not always happy with nothing, but nothing is something, and it's very hard to predict.
@ Bit It's been real cold in some places, the global temperatures have been dropping in many places, the Antarctic has been very very cold, -60s for some time in some places. You are so right that they'll tell you what works best for them, their agenda, forget truth, hard to make money and control with truth, lies work better on the fear of weak minded individuals. It is easy to be like everyone else, and it is usually what people want, but it is hard to stand up and point out how it may not all be true as the tide of half truths flow, assuming the worst, and to eagerly take blame. Science has been inapropriately used, it's never 100% either, especially with nature. The world is not flat, the sun does not go around the earth, but that thinking lasted 100s of years.
Question everything, doubt everything, including our own thoughts, for we are not perfect. I hope your job gets better Bit! and thanks for all your help.
@Jan Yes, Climate and Weather are not the same, I think we all know that here, and you're right to point it out. I'm not so positive about who is responsible at all Jan. We destroy so many things, but wait just a minute here, so does nature. Natures whole purpose is to grow from death, destruction and decay, it's how it works, and we're a part of that. You could I suppose compare us to cancer, but I'd rather not and take the path of a more positive approach. For us to create, we must also destroy. I doubt we're going to take out the planet, but the opposite, it will take us out first, it will survive long after we're gone unless we're smart enough to figure out how to colonize space, and start eating away at it's resources. I do not believe we have very reliable data that extends more than a few hundred years, and as you pointed out it takes 10s of 1000s of years to know the whole story of change, so taking only a small snippet of 30 years (pretty well since satelite and digital imagery) as a reliable source to predict data is not sufficient enough to spread doom across the planet. I think it's all being hyped up, cause us humans like to be frightened like out of a horror movie, the fact is, we like it. It's too easy to jump in the doom and gloom boat, besides, it's full already
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the only thing that is constant is change If we're to use the logic of numbers, then you need to use a coin and flip it. It's not going to be what you think all the time is it, and it'll always change, even if you do it all your life, in the end, it will be not perfect. Even DNA is different from person to person, that's why people are sick, there is no perfect DNA either, just a damn good guess of numbers using numbers to find numbers, but you'll come back to the same problem that nothing is perfect, change is always, and we'll never have the perfect DNA sample, cause numbers can't do that... ever
@ oh brother It is theorectically impossible to know which side the coin will be. Jurrasic Park, Jeff Goldblum, remember the water running down either side of her hand, unpredictable. I doubt God gambles here
Truley it is gravity that's the culprit. It is reponsible for everything, the weak forces will inherit the earth eventually. I too believe in trying to put a square in a circle, like a child, we learn most from this type of thinking, there may be something that was missed, but it is the attempt that eventually leads to discovery. That is why in my opinion that we're all copy cats, lost is the ability to think outside the box of norms, taking the same paths to be like everyone else is degradation from choices of thought. As for pi, it's all we have to compare to perfection. There is no real circle, there never was, but what's a circle to me may not be a circle to you. One of the very first shapes we were told to draw was a circle, but by natures chance, we can't, but we believe we did. Sorry about the crappy weather you've been getting, it's happening everywhere, but it's normal, we just like to complain
@ cows I can explain. Those who live in Alberta had a crappy summer, especially those a bit higher up in the foothills. Alberta (foothills) had snow every month but July, the temperatures were on the cool side. It is unusual to see snow there in August.The coasts were both cool, more in the east, they were more than 2 degrees celsius cooler. In May, every province had snow. The upper atmosphere has been very cold in Canada, that's why all the hail in many places. The reason for all the tornado outbreaks was simply from all that cold air that wouldn't leave, and this year had retrograde weather systems, I've not seen that many before.
I expect to see with this trend, more snow and colder temerpatures than usual. It is all over the world. Japan, South Africa, Newzealand, South America, parts of China, all of these places have experinced colder than usual, even snow in some places where it hadn't in 50 years. The earth is rumbling, the plates seem to be very active, lots of earthquakes and volcanoes are proof of that, this is what is warming and cooling the oceans and in turn, warming the air in some places, cooling it in others. The Arctic is really taking a pounding, the active volcanoes and hot vents are slightly warming it up. There was a special show on TV where divers going under the ice showed how it was melting from underneath, since the Arctic is 80% floating ice. Do not worry about the flooding if it melts, it won't happen. Melt an ice cube in a glass, tell me if it raises its miniscus level.