Then there are times, when over decades, one can just barely see it change.
Today, it's changing far faster.
It's true that it's not visible everywhere.
It's also true that we find it hard to see a small overall change when there are much larger year to year differences.
When you were a kid, you didn't see yourself grow.
You know you did, but there was just too much distraction.
However, there are changes that are visible.
And, the warning that is occurring today is much faster than is normally the case.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba...
The problem is not so much the temperature, but the rate of change.
If the ocean level was to rise 15 feet, that would be a problem.
If the ocean level was to fall 15 feet, many of our ports would be inaccessible.
Our society has evolved to take advantage of the climate that has existed.
Not one that is either hotter or colder.
Our civilization would be fine if it was either hotter or colder.
We'd be growing food in different places and living in different places.
The problem is having to change where we live, where we grow our food, and where we get our water.
Our interdependent technological civilization has never had to live through as dramatic a climate change as is happening, and it is going to have quite a bit of trouble adapting to that change.
Yes, the climate has always been changing. But environmental activist decided that to start a CO2 scam to get money from corporations in the form of carbon tax credits. So climate change is just a way for the ICCP International Panel on Climate Change, and the United Nations, and some other organizations, to control industrial development. This was done by blaming human activity for the changes in the climate.
There's a big difference between natural climate change, and change caused by outside sources.
Natural climate change tends to be slow. It tends to take thousands upon thousands of years to notice much difference. You might have odd bursts in certain places, but on the whole it is usually a subtle change.
Right now, we're seeing a climate change at a huge pace (as far as climate change goes, short of a giant meteror hitting us again.) Far faster than what anyone would expect naturally.
Were seeing the ocean rising in inches, we're seeing the caps melting expenintally, we're seeing places that were used to feet of snow getting less and less.
p.s, when areas that used to be fertal become desert, there really isn't going to be much farmers can do. Not a whole lot grows in desert, execpt desert. Meaning, once deserts start growing it's hard to stop them. Which is something you can expect if climate continues to change as it is.
Of course, there's no such thing as a static climate. Those who are looking to end so-called "climate change" want you to believe that this is what the earth's climate was like before man showed up. The only reason why the earth has warmed is because isn't cooling. And if the planet isn't warming, it's cooling. It's just that simple.
When did arson begin? Haven't there always been fires started by lightning?
Hasn't this kind of stupid fake question been "asked" a thousand times here already?
Do dupes of fossil fuel industry anti-science ever get tired of being dumb as dirt liars?
It certainly looks like it.
Note that the time scale of the graph, below, gets more and more compressed as you move back in time.
If you take the graph back all the way to the start of the earth, about 4.5 billion years ago, and plot it on a linear time scale on a couiple of sheets of paper, the last millimeter represents 10 million years. The thickness of a piece of paper is about a million years.
We have satellite data for about 30 years.
Climate change has ALWAYS happened, but people don't cause it.
It's been cooling for at least 12 years according to HadCrut3 & HadCrut4 is nearly flat. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut...
According to RSS Satellite data there has been no warming for almost 18 years.
Ever since carbon-based life has existed on this planet, the carbon cycle has taken place. On a side-note, the reason why people like me are concerned now is because of the industrial boom over the last sixty years that has been rapidly increasing the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
It changes every now and then. Establishing the cause of the last 40 years of warming lets us extrapolate 100 years or so of continued CO2 emission. As it has in the distant past, the CO2 can make the planet unrecognizable.
4.5 billion years ago, and it has been changing ever since,
Lin Lyons answer is illogical, we can adapt to changes easily, we would not have to move, farmers have a wide range of crops which they can plant, and they change them all the time,
California could grow olives, which not only survive drought conditions they actually like them, there is shortage in olive oil and high prices abound.
sea level rise could be a problem, but the rate of rise is very slow and there is no reason to presume it will carry-on rising.
This 1 chart exposes climate-science deniers as frauds
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-1-...
Never this fast, look at the spike in last 100 yera of graphicconception.
Yes, it has always been changing. But in the past it climate change had to be in lock step with natural forcings, because there were no SUVs to cause it.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp...
Long time ago, and yes it does all the time.
al gore lied
