Originally Posted by
datlas
Truth. There is a difference between "weather" and "climate" which is often lost on the masses.
Originally Posted by
Mojo31
Yes, that.
I'm a believer in the effect mankind has had on the climates of our world, but it has been going on for a very long time. Carbon emissions is not a new thing, and our current emissions, while not helping the big picture, are not going to change our climate over night in a significant manner. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be more responsible than we've been in the past 100 years or so.
There have been lots of climate changes over the life of the planet. One such event wiped out the dinosaurs, but that took a very long time.
GJ and I will be gone long before the climate can kill us. Weather might, but so might illness, injury, accident, or many other things.
A substantial number of people have already been killed, and a whole lot more have been seriously impacted by "weather" that would not have happened, or would not have been as severe without climate change. And sure, climate has changed during the billions of years this planet has been here. But never so fast as this. It's well beyond "gosh, we should be more circumspect about our carbon emissions."