Nope, it doesn’t bother me one bit. Furthermore, I absolutely doubt that we can either change or affect it whatsoever. Besides, a warmer earth even by a degree is better for us, it allows more crops to flourish among many other things.
Plus, shall I again remind you “recorded history” is only the last 140 years? Unless you believe a young earth, then that’s pretty bad science to base an entire theory about the planet based only on .0000000001% of the earths history.
Meteorological charts go back to 1850 (thermometers etc) - so you’re getting on for 170 years. Still a small portion of the Earth’s history - but a reasonable point to measure when factoring in comparisons for the age of the Second Industrial Revolution (factories, urbanisation, smoke, grit, dust, grime, gas and chemicals, coal and mining taking place on a more ‘industrial’ scale leading to engines - powering and use of).
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To the later question of ‘So, do you think it was hotter or colder during the Middle Ages?’ - that’s a wider-ranging question, when and where? At which point in the Middle Ages? Circa 1000 when some believe there to have been the Little Ice Age? Or the Warming Period in SouthEast Asia & parts of Northern Europe around the same time?
Am off too bed now (late in the UK) - but am curious as to your answer and why (as well as where and when).
You decide.
Damn you ferris, for wanting real dialog and real discussion, I pale in comparison to you.
Is that what he wants?
My god, climate change deniers are amazing.
I don’t deny that climate changes, just this morning it was cold outside now it’s not.
If CNN believes that climate change is coming, we’re all doomed, and that New York is going to be underwater as soon as
201520182045, then why are they moving all of their operations to New York?http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/05/cnn-moves-to-centralize-in-new-york-189029
I suppose he’s hearkening to the “Earth has gone through several heating and cooling periods through the eons, so what we’re experiencing now is nothing new or unnatural” argument against AGW.
Well ok but if it’s unrecorded history he has no way of knowing that.
Exactly, and there’s way more of it than recorded history.
Ok, so it doesn’t worry you in the slightest that this was the hottest year in recorded history, or that the 16 warmest years since 1880 have all occurred in the 2000s except one (which was 1998), because there might have been one year before recorded history that was hotter. Maybe.
Ok.
Nope, it doesn’t bother me one bit.