Learning About Climate Change

IN THEIR STUBBORN DENIAL of climate change, conservatives like to point to the fact that the climate is always changing, naturally, without or without humans, and that hurricanes, tornados, droughts, and heat have always been with us, long before any possible human made climate change. They like to point out that human beings are far too puny and powerless to have any real impact on the climate, since the forces of nature are so much greater than we. Although all these supposed arguments against the existence of human made climate change are ridiculously irrelevant, the last one is demonstrably false. We may be puny and small, but we sure can turn the skies over big cities dark grey with hard to breathe smog, we can fill rivers with flammable materials and then set them on fire; we can also bring water to a desert and turn it into a garden. Se, we can do some things. And just a hint to conservatives: the fact that the climate changes naturally and produces extreme weather naturally has noting to do with whether humans contribute, which, in fact, we do. Scientists have been trying to use computer models to study climate change, by making simulations using all available data, the amount of which keeps increasing daily. is it possible to look at specific weather events and determine they ere specifically caused by climate change? Not until recently, but now its possible to calculate whether any given event in the weather could have been caused by natural factors, without climate change. Are there any storms which are explainable only with climate change? it turns out that in 2016 there were three specific events that could only bed attributed to global warming: the global temperature was way higher than ever, there was a severe drought throughout much of Asia which lasted weeks, and the amount of rain that came with hurricane Harvey. None of these could have happened naturally, scientists say. The great ting about science and scientists; they only say things like that when they can provide a whole lot of proof to back it up. You can already hear the right wing, calling the study a hoax, claiming that the science is still uncertain, calling the climate science community entirely criminal and fraudulent, wanting only to make money, caring nothing about the truth. They'll want to ignore science and keep drilling and fracking, and bring back coal. These people are currently in power, horrifically. They must be removed. The only recourse is to laugh at the fools.