Climate lies explained in 1 chart
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What an odd thing to say! CO2 is more or less uniformly distributed in the atmosphere, so to a first-order approximation you would, indeed, expect the temperature of every place on earth to go up uniformly. That's the basis of the Arrhenius model that started all this off about a century ago. Of course Ninos/Ninas/AMO/PMOs will modify this, so no one really expects a uniform increase in temperature.
Also: "Climate Change" is in no way a more accurate term for "global warming" -- it's merely unfalsifiable. Since you're on KIA2, you obviously understand that the left uses language as a cudgel. "Climate Change" is simply a strategy to force people to say... 'well, okay, obviously there's climate change going on, but how much of it is attributable to CO2?' -- this makes it seem like us deniers are conceding the point at the outset.
And: If you're going to quote temperatures, you're probably better off using Kelvin, so that people understand that we're looking at a potential change of 2K against a background of 280K.
And you would be wrong at every point. Fucking gravity isn't distributed uniformly across the Earth. Why would an atmospheric gas effected by wind be uniformly distrusted?
Worse, this is a nonsensical idea because even if we take the most reductive analysis of how greenhouse gasses work, we accept that light gets reflected into the earth from the atmosphere, and water holds heat. But primarily, all the heat is coming from light.
Is light uniformly distributed across the Earth?
No.
So then there would be no reason to assume heat increases would be uniformly distributed.
It's not unfalsifiable. It's just true. Those are two different things, and it's why scientists look at Climate Skeptics like crazy people because arguments like "humans can't effect the climate" are preposterous, considering we know non-human animals and plants can effect climates; and arguments like "the Climate's always changing" is asinine, because of course it is, it's just that the rate of change now is far faster than in all other instances outside mass extinction events. It's as if billions of humans, putting out large quantities of greenhouse gasses, and terraforming the planet, might have an effect on Climate.
One of those effects is an increase in the average planetary air temperature.
No one cares what you think. This is part of the problem. The political Left don't give a shit what you think you are or are not conceding because they want power, and don't care what your rhetoric is. Scientists don't care what you are conceding because you are simply wrong.
If you are against the Left's anti-nuclear policies because "radiation doesn't exist", Leftists don't care because you're their enemy, and scientists don't care why you think something completely wrong.
Unfortunately, this means there's no way to have meeting of the minds on this. The Left, don't want to, and Scientists, frankly, don't really want to waste time having to explain to you shit that they have evidenced and documented for decades, only for you to reject it because you don't understand it and don't care to.
This is why a scientist would think you're a fucking idiot, and won't talk to you.
Picking a different unit means nothing. Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, British Thermal Units, Joules, Calories. Hell, make up your own fucking unit of measurement and just give us the conversion factor. You know what? Fuck it. It's a change in energy! Measure it in fucking Work.
It's literally irrelevant.