OT To bad someone in our congress doesnt have the guts to say this.

 




 

 

aluckyguess wrote:

I am not a voter for your congress but I would hope that my elected
representatives were more perceptive and informed than the speaker in this
clip.  Being unable to distinguish between climate and weather does not fill
me with confidence that the speaker understands anything about climate
change.

David

 


Well said.

 

On 1/21/2010 11:04 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:

That's the knee jerk argument.  My skepticism comes in as to how much
weather change is man made vs just what mother nature does.  We hear
other planets in our solar system are also warming and I don't think
anybody there are driving SUV's.

 

Frank wrote:

I don 't understand that comment. What is knee-jerk about saying a person
who doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate is
ignorant?  What is knee-jerk about wanting my representatives to be
perceptive and informed?


Weather does change all the time.  We need to consider if the earth's
climate is changing and if so why.  These are two different issues.

We hear

Where did you hear that?  Assuming for moment that the climate was changing
on other planets from natural causes why would that show that climate is not
changing on earth from human causes?

We know that the earth's climate has changed in the past naturally and it
may well do so again.  That by itself says nothing about whether it *is*
doing so naturally this time.  This question has been much studied and there
is considerable evidence available that points to the cause this time being
human activity.

David