You know, few days ago a very old guy randomly started to talk to me here (in Poland). He talked about his choldhood when in the summers he had to watch over the cows but it was raining all day every day.
Then he told me how there was just no rain this year yet.
You know I remember things like that as a kid. Like I remember there was were a few of these big ice storms for a couple years. In my mind I think "wow we haven't had an ice storm quite like that in forever, what changed?!" Turns out those were big freak ice storms that actually occurred at a standard rate through a longer history, and we actually did have some ice storms in recent years but I just don't remember them as being such a big deal cause I wasn't a kid looking out for a school day to be canceled or whatever. I just went along my normal day to work with the only difference is I drove more carefully.
You would be surprised just how often we build these "the weather used to be" in our minds but really it is about the same, or you remember a few freak incidents that didn't happen nearly as often as you remember.
Not saying things haven't changed, just saying I hear this a lot but often times it doesn't really get backed up by reality.
That's why 100% of "evidence" of rapid, catastrophic climate change takes the form of hyper-specific data points. "This one city had the hottest day in a hundred years! This single county is having a historic drought! Everyone's gonna die!"
In reality, there are just so many cities and counties in America alone that in a given year, dozens of them are going to experience outlier data points even when the rest of the world is perfectly average.
Never trust anyone who tries to explain a global phenomenon using entirely localized data. The only reason to do so is to mislead.
You know, few days ago a very old guy randomly started to talk to me here (in Poland). He talked about his choldhood when in the summers he had to watch over the cows but it was raining all day every day.
Then he told me how there was just no rain this year yet.
You know I remember things like that as a kid. Like I remember there was were a few of these big ice storms for a couple years. In my mind I think "wow we haven't had an ice storm quite like that in forever, what changed?!" Turns out those were big freak ice storms that actually occurred at a standard rate through a longer history, and we actually did have some ice storms in recent years but I just don't remember them as being such a big deal cause I wasn't a kid looking out for a school day to be canceled or whatever. I just went along my normal day to work with the only difference is I drove more carefully.
You would be surprised just how often we build these "the weather used to be" in our minds but really it is about the same, or you remember a few freak incidents that didn't happen nearly as often as you remember.
Not saying things haven't changed, just saying I hear this a lot but often times it doesn't really get backed up by reality.
That's why 100% of "evidence" of rapid, catastrophic climate change takes the form of hyper-specific data points. "This one city had the hottest day in a hundred years! This single county is having a historic drought! Everyone's gonna die!"
In reality, there are just so many cities and counties in America alone that in a given year, dozens of them are going to experience outlier data points even when the rest of the world is perfectly average.
Never trust anyone who tries to explain a global phenomenon using entirely localized data. The only reason to do so is to mislead.