Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Heavy snow hits parts of Europe - BBC News" video.

"Commuters attempting to get to work have relied on maintenance workers to clear the snow" Isn't that exacly what maintenance workers are for?
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@vixenx9464 Ahh interesting. I somehow never consider that Mediterranean countries ever got snow.
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This is weather not climate.
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@turquoiseowl I don't know who those fellow climate alarmists would be given that I myself am not a climate alarmist. No reputable science institution would say that a single cold snap was indicative of anything but a bit of cold weather or vice versa. Given that I recognise that fact, but also recognise the data which, even adjusted for solar activity, shows an unprecedented rise in CO2 levels and global temperature trends since the industrial revolution, human caused climate change is an unequivocal fact undisputed by the vast majority of experts qualified to have an opinion. Feel free to deny reality if you like. It doesn't care about your opinion.
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@turquoiseowl This article addresses your question, although it does conclude that there are still differing opinions. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.522 Nevertheless,there were over half a dozen unusual weather phenomenon during that period that may have contributed. And again it has to be stressed, there is always variability within any trend. If you push a ball off a balcony and it bounces off another one on the way down, you don't declare its temporary reversal as disproving gravity.
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Do you get snow most years?
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@turquoiseowl A first year university chemistry can demonstrate a rise in C02 levels by burning fossil fuels. A decent scientist can calculate the C02 output of many of this planet's pollutants: cars, deforestation, fossil fuel burning, dairy farming, etc, and extrapolate that against the volume of Earth's atmosphere. A decent climatologist can map the rise in global C02, normalise it against known solar and volcanic events as well as the wobble of the Earth, and come up with a rate of change compared to previous ebbs and flows in this cycle. It really doesn't seem to me to be particularly remarkable to state as a fact "I know that putting one gram of C02 into a billion litres of atmosphere produces this effect. Mankind is putting this many tons of C02 into this many billions of tons of atmosphere, so when the volumes are scaled linearly, this is the result." Yes, there may be differences in effects at massive scale, but when we have two other planets to study the effcets of probable runaway greenhouse gases (Mars and Venus), I'm not going to gamble the future of the planet that we might somehow be a special case. If this means a gradual transition away from fossil fuels, and recycling, and living in a more eco friendly house, that doesn't seem a high price to pay.
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@turquoiseowl If you are going to use the "nothing can ever be scientifically proven just asserted with greatest degrees of probability" line, then you rapidly disappear up your own anus. Yes, it keeps scientists humble about their observations, but even they have to act upon something. Your existence may well be the figment of someone else's imagination. You may be nothing but a line of computer code, but you know what? You behave as though your existence is a fact because nothing else makes sense. You are absolutely wrong when you claim as alarmism something which is not. You remind me of someone watching an 18 wheeler bearing down on them whilst standing in the middle of a 6 lane highway closing their eyes and screaming at the oncoming truck "It's just a dream it's just a dream". Moreover, you're trying to convince others the same thing. There is a particular kind of personality type that not only keeps an open mind, and even questions everything but denies it as well. It's a mixture between a rebellious type, a contrarian and reality denialist. It's really not healthy. How do you ever put your faith in anything?
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Okay - but just a bit! :-)
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Thank goodness.
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