When was the first time you heard about GW and how does it turn out...so far?

The first time I heard about it was back in 1990.

Almost 1 quarter of a century passed, nothing appears to be really changing.

Alaska I heard, is still unforgivingly cold. Arizona, freakishly hot. The snow in the state of NY is still more than people can take and the sunshine in Cali is still ample.

So, why is the allegedly "majority" of science community's predictions and calculations so starkly different from us ordinary folk's experience and observation? Maybe the whole GW thing is still being contested?

A little trivial, personal facts that doesn't really count as proof of anything, but here it is anyway:
I used to had conversation w/ this young Japanese colleague of mine when I was working in Japan. He said as early as when he was in elementary school, the teacher told them if the earth keep getting warmer, mount. Fuji will be all green instead of having a majestic white top. My colleague said he thought about it later and decided why is it so bad to have a mountain top covered in heavy foliage? And what happened really? Well the white top is still there.

So, any personal experience? Anyone being influenced by GW personally? I understand perfectly that individual, isolated examples doesn't count but c'mon, it's like 25 years??? No notable changes?

 

I don't really care if you are right or wrong, but if you are wrong,your grandchildren will pay the price.

 

He made me like the Texas Rangers!

 

Maybe you are being impacted, but just are not making the connection.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...e8-c2d44bd79778_story.html?wprss=rss_national

 

The reservoirs and lakes where I take my boat are shrinking. I don't take the boat to Lake Mead, but it's at record drought levels due to a lack of snow melt from the Rockies. I probably won't have any personal experience with GW until the lights go out in Las Vegas. I don't know if the drought is over in Atlanta but it was having big trouble a couple years ago.

 

Some of those "scientists" and I use the term loosely, are the same jokers who predicted the new Ice Age back in the 1970's.



Droughts running about normal.

 

If 70% of the Colorado's water wasn't taken from it, Lake Mead would be full.

In terms of Atlanta, Lake Lanier (one of the major water sources for Atlanta) is about 4 inches above full.

 

Some time in the 80s in a science class. Hole in the Ozone layer, all that jazz. OH yeah, the term Climate Change didn't exist at the time, at least not in the public eye. That only popped up with Gore, when Global Warming wasn't actually an accurate description anymore, so it was "changed" and re-marketed to become vague and indefensible. Oh, it got colder? Thats Climate Change caused by global warming caused by changing climate. Its brilliant!!!! You can never be wrong.

If humans can barely predict hurricanes, or if its going to rain tomorrow, why should I believe WITHOUT QUESTION, that they know what our climate is going to be like 10, 50 or 100 yrs from now? I hear every single year how its going to be the worst Hurricane season ever and maybe they're correct every 10-15 yrs. I'd love to be wrong at my job the vast majority of the time=)

 

Try an updated graph

 

Water has always been taken from the Colorado and Lake Mead managed to stay full with routine drawdown during the summer. I think you're discounting the lack of snow melt into the watershed.

 

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I'm a millennial, so the first time I heard about global warming it was from CAPTAIN PLANET who taught me to also hate rich people, but oddly enough, to also hate powerful white women and like feminine Russian women.

See, even though Captain Planet was shamelessly liberal propaganda, it wasn't quite liberal fascist propaganda. You were supposed to respect dissent, it was possible for women to be bossy, the Captain was unambiguously male and Russia wasn't portrayed as neo-fascist.

But along the way something changed. Now dissent is to be treated like violence, bossy is banned, the Captain would be a transgendered and all the villains would be Russian and none of the good guys. Am I reading too much into this? Maybe I just grew up.

 

Well dude, there never were any real scientists saying California would freeze over in the course of 20 years or anything ridiculous of that sort. I also heard bogus claims like that, but the ones I beard were in the mid 90s at grade school, and the ideas seemed heavily influenced by Waterworld. There were a bunch of pictures up on the walls of cities underwater, like of the Twin Towers being nearly flooded over.

 

Oh Pascal's wager eh? What aboot the fact that people waste trillions and bring more pollution manufacturing those "green energy" equipments?

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Annnnnd you blame that on GW? I'm not very good with sarcasm?

 

Yea, hole in the Ozone layer. You don't hear them so often somehow these days.Strange isn't it? Media hype comes, Media hype goes, but liberal hysteria and alarmism is for evaaaaa!

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Water world and Independence day all sucked... but I was relatively young back then, I don really had any taste. So GW and Alien invasion was back then my two official concern. Funny isn't it? Since when you think about it, they actually belong to the same category.