Comments by "Jellybean" (@j377yb33n) on "New scientific report identifies "the fingerprints of climate change"" video.

  1. That opening shot is like dinosaurs posing with a telescope that's pointed at their asteroid.
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  2.  @larryvanbarriger6670  so do you actually know the difference between weather and climate, or do you think it's also raining outside when you're having a shower?
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  3. Lad, if climate change was fake, why would oil companies spend billions trying to cover it up.
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  4.  @bps7209  Climate has definitely changed before, but it's the rate of change at the moment that's the real concern. the dumping of so much co2 and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere is coming at the same time as widespread ecological destruction, something closer to the changes that happened after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs than the end of the last ice age periods. The ones who are actually acting out about this aren't the ones that are trying to dump even more concrete into the world, or want the huge hummers but try offset it with solar panels on their roofs. the stories of dead sea areas in the pacific and mediteranian are scary, we've got parts of the amazon basin that'll possibly never return to a rainforest. Like if you're frustrated at the ones being entirely performative, and whatever news you're consuming is lumping them in with actual environmental scientists, I'd say see if there's links to oil companies, arms manufacturers or blackrock holdings.
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  5.  @larryvanbarriger6670  yknow, the world is bigger than just outside your house, and there's more than just the present. Weather refers to short term events, climate is the longer term pattern and over a wider area. The type of weather you get in the UK, is different at different times of the year than in Turkey or India. They're different climates. The term global warming refers to the average global temperature. So while you can have a frigid day in say.. Scunthorpe, the entirety of Europe could be baked in a heatwave and the American Midwest could be underwater. Average temperature rises, and at the rate this is happening, means that the usual pattern of weather in many areas is getting less predictable, warmer (*on average across a wide area*), and can often be more extreme because warmer oceans can drive bigger or more erratic storms. Look at the huge storm that slammed into Northern italy/Switzerland, that's after a summer long ocean heatwave in the Atlantic, and then a concentrated ocean heatwave in the Mediterranean. Water is a better heatsink than air is, so for now the sea has been taking the brunt of warming (leading to a lot of ecological systems struggling to cope), but this may start affecting the atmosphere soon
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  6. Not all... But a massive amount, working from the same data. There's also a concerted effort from oil and mining companies to fund "research" papers that say its either not as bad as the other data says, or caused by other things, which then oil funded media spins out as equally valid as the mountain of other evidence.
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  7. Aye but have you considered how fast the climate is changing? Or maybe... Who's funding the bodies that tell you not to be concerned?
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  8.  @bps7209  so you recognise the hypocrisy within the state and economic system were in, where economic development is always focused on profit over actual sustainability, and almost anything to do with the environment is either too little, too late, or is just a performative label so they can get the bad press off their back while Greece burns and Indonesia sinks?
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  9. Don't forget decimating ecosystems
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