Trump and Climate Change: A Unique Relationship
On yesterday’s post on global warming, frequent commenter MarcoPolo notes: “Climate change has been occurring since the creation of the planet.”
This is true, but irrelevant. Equating a phenomenon that’s occurred over 4.5 billion years to one that’s happened in the last century is meaningless; it’s an example of paralogizing (today’s word of the day on Dictionary.com)
To add emphasis, I can only provide the words of Donald Trump, unique in that he’s literally the only climate denier on the planet who is also a head of state: “It gets colder and hotter. It’s called weather.”
I like to think of you as belonging to a higher intellectual class, but you’re going to have to help me out in maintaining this belief.
@ Craig
Well Said and very Appropriate – so close to our mate Marco
I said similar in my last rebuttal post to his Cognitive Dissonance issues …
Ulterior Motives and Agenda may be the Root source of this behavior.
Have Blessed Days Everyone
The Milankovich cycle typically sees warming and cooling at a rate that is ~1/200th the rate that we are seeing now, and we’re at a point in the cycle when we should be cooling rather than warming.
The natural warming and cooling cycles based off of geological activity are hundredsfold slower than the Milankovich cycle, and again we should be cooling by those cycles, though at a rate that wouldn’t matter. The only relevant historical climate anomalies in the past would be burst clathrates (This is the postulated cause of the medieval warming period), which serve as short-term blooms of warmth that fade over a couple of centuries back to the mean… but the cause of that is well understood greenhouse gas forcing. We actually are experiencing something of that nature with the thawing of the permafrost… but in this case we’re looking at a feedback mechanism that reinforces the primary problem.
None of these cycles or feedbacks help the case of the idiots in the denialist camp.
These nonsense objections have been researched extensively, and shown to not have a significant impact on the core climate change. Just ignore them, or post links to conversations in the past where you wasted your breath hashing it out. If they are just going to ignore the opposing arguments again and again, there’s no reason to continually restate those arguments.
@ Glenn
Thank you for sharing technically based information on the subject. Informative and Educational and right out of the real science Cornucopia!
As you said it is pointless and a poor usage of ones time to have to continuously rehash facts with certain folks who are entrapped in their Bias bubble’s, Illogical positions and Alternative Facts , etc.
take care
Perhaps the metric that most impressed me when I first heard of it is that although the world has had many climate upheavals according to the scientific evidence civilization has arisen within the last 5000 to 10,000 years and this is concurrently a period of relatively stable climate.
If our concern is not for the planet in general or the human race but to protect our civilization then the stability of the last 10,000 years would seem to be the most significant time period of concern.