Post#900 » by fatlever » Tue Oct 8, 2024 8:03 pm
anyone who denies climate change or global warming is a braindead zombie not worth arguing with.
I have a former friend who also has a degree in geography, but somehow is a climate change denier. Like I don't know how we could have received a degree in the same field, taken the same classes and have such polar opposite views. He's been completely brainwashed. Last time it came up he said "global warming isn't a thing, it's just that they paved everything with parking lots, which makes it hotter.". I didn't feel like trying to argue, but in my head I'm like - it doesn't matter how it happened, it's the fact that it's happening, which you just acknowledged, by dismissing it saying it's only getting hotter because there's more pavement. Even if that's the only reason, it's still supports the fact that the Earth is warming, and it's al least, partially due to human intervention.
It's the same morons that every year there's a cold streak in January and they go "I thought there was global warming", thinking that global warming only impacts the weather on a micro, day-to-day scale. The fact of the matter is the oceans are warming, and warmer oceans produce more storms and stronger storms. Increased temperatures also create more chaotic weather patterns, whether that's more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more drought, and gasp, more blizzards, believe it or not. Changes in ocean currents can have drastic impacts causing some places to get warmer some places to get colder.
I feel like they should revoke his geography degree for not understanding the very basics of climatology. Then again, he was always more interested in just memorizing capitals, as if that provides any value outside of answering Jeopardy questions.
