20th-century warming 'unmatched' in 2,000 years

Don't mean to overreact to a single weather phenomenon, but the fact that these type of situations with such extreme weather are occurring with so much more frequency of late really scares the heck out of me when considering the future of our planet.  What scares me even more is that our current president thinks climate change is fake news.  

Scientists predicted this climate change over 40 years ago. However, they were wrong about one important issue. The climate change is occurring FASTER than they predicted. We've seen this coming for 40 years, yet so many people still don't want to believe in reality.

I doenst matter, heads of state and academia have failed to come up with a viable solutions to the inpending catastrophe.

I don't understand the fear mongering.

(Already wrote this a few days ago)

And trends are better measured by longer periods - for example, here's the global 10-year moving averages (basically, every year, calculate the average temp for the last 10 years):

http://berkeleyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/LongtermTrend2017.png

This better accounts for yearly anomalies and highlights the trends - and the trend is that the rise in global temp is accelerating (the key note here is not the rise but the acceleration)

I should not have to point out that 2,000 years is a fraction of time in human history. We only actually have direct scientific knowledge of the weather for the last 150 years or so.

The simplistic association of one variable, CO2, as the cause of change in a complex and poorly understood system such as the Earths climate does not prove causation- no matter how hard this politicized issue is pushed by the Socialists. CO2 has increased from .03% of atmospheric gases to .04% since the industrial revolution began. CO2 doesn’t even comprise a majority of the 2% plus green house gases that exists in the atmosphere.

The climate is warming and climate changes. A thousand years ago Vikings migrated to a comfortable Greenland which is much colder now. No one can seriously argue that human had any impact on that period of global climate change. It is much more likely that variances in solar radiation is affecting cloud cover and that explains changes in average temperatures to a greater degree than CO2. But no one knows with certainty. The climate models are never right.

A snapshot in time is not an evidence of future climate. Step off the cliff - the chances of the world coming to an end in 12 years have been greatly exaggerated.

I doenst matter, heads of state and academia have failed to come up with a viable solutions to the inpending catastrophe.

Failed to come up with viable solutions? Not according to AOC. Her Green New Deal will save the environment.

A second paper, in Nature Geoscience, examined rates of surface warming, averaged over sub-periods each a few decades long.

They found that pre-industrial temperature fluctuations were largely driven by volcanic activity. But they also concluded that humans had never witnessed such rapid global warming as in the latter part of the 20th century.

A third study found that global temperatures leading up to the industrial period were  cooled by a series of volcanic eruptions, which led to droughts in Africa and weak monsoons.

Commenting on the studies, Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London, said their results "should finally stop climate change deniers claiming that the recent observed coherent global warming is part of a natural climate cycle".

LOL. The current natural cycle of global warming began during the last ice age. This planet has been getting warmer for a really long time. Those claiming that man-made CO2 is evil are under the impression that they can actually stop the natural climate heating and cooling cycles of the Earth.

I think their time would be better spent helping people prepare to live thru this un-stoppable warming cycle. More air conditioning, more insulation, and more energy will be needed. Listening to some whiney climatology zealot tell me that they know how to stop the natural climate cycle, which they can not accomplish, used to be amusing. Now it's just annoying.

LOL. The current natural cycle of global warming began during the last ice age. This planet has been getting warmer for a really long time. Those claiming that man-made CO2 is evil are under the impression that they can actually stop the natural climate heating and cooling cycles of the Earth.

Originally, they denied climate change even existed. Then when it started to become clear, it was 'well we don't have data older than a few decades so we can't believe the results'. Now the fallacy of that argument has been pointed out so it's 'ok, we can actually get this data, but the scientists are just wrong'.

Got it. Seems legit.

Originally it was claimed that man-made CO2 was the reason the planet was growing warmer. And cow farts. I don't remember anyone finding any ice-age lawn mowers, but those mastodon poots could knock a pterodactyl off a dung wagon.

I'm suggesting that the global warming zealot's time, and energy, would be better spent preparing for the effects of the unstoppable global warming. More air conditioning, higher energy output (including nuclear and coal), perhaps shifting work hours to evenings or nights. You know, something that would actually be useful.

Ahh, there's a legit answer. I need to start doubting science and scientists after reading that, due to the fact that the logic in that post is stronger than science.