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In reply to the discussion: If you believe in global climate change, do you believe the earth is getting warmer or colder? [View all]blogslut
(38,000 posts)43. Weather is getting more extreme.
Why is this so hard to comprehend?
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If you believe in global climate change, do you believe the earth is getting warmer or colder? [View all]
kentuck
Jan 2014
OP
Overall temperature, climate patterns, and weather events are THREE different things
BlueStreak
Jan 2014
#37
Like magnetism and gravity, it is not something you get to believe in or not.
MindPilot
Jan 2014
#12
Scientific consensus by the vast majority of scinentiests indicates global warming caused by human.
Agnosticsherbet
Jan 2014
#26
First, I just have to point out that belief has nothing to do with this.
Egalitarian Thug
Jan 2014
#28
Actually, the Earth itself continues to cool, as it has for billions of years.
stopbush
Jan 2014
#32
Depends what you mean by "the earth", and on the time scale, doesn't it?
Donald Ian Rankin
Jan 2014
#33
I'm not as concerned with a pole shift as much as the things we can control (CO2)
adirondacker
Jan 2014
#42
Before the rise of the AGW paradigm the 80s/90s, variations in solar activity were
Edim
Jan 2014
#46
+1,000,000 ...Really, who cares. No one is giving up anything that will make a difference. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2014
#48