Hey Deniers, Weather & Climate Are Different Things Pat Cunningham - Mexico Ledger
go to original July 2, 2016

Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the differences between weather and climate change (National Geographic)

Global-warming skeptics love to make the argument that the changeability of weather forecasts in the short term disproves claims by climate scientists that potential disaster lies just a few decades away as the planet heats up.

The fundamental problem with such skepticism is that weather and climate are not the same thing. TV meteorologists are not climatologists. Sometimes it's more difficult to predict whether Sunday's ballgame will be rained out than whether melting glaciers will cause sea levels to rise by the time your toddler is in high school.

As we see in this provocative piece of a few years ago from the Web site Skeptical Science:

A change in temperature of 7 degrees Celsius from one day to the next is barely worth noting when you are discussing weather. Seven degrees, however, make a dramatic difference when talking about climate. When the Earth's average temperature was 7 degrees Celsius cooler than the present, ice sheets a mile thick were on top of Manhattan!

POSTSCRIPT: Here's an incomplete list of organizations that subscribe to mainstream scientific theories on man-made global warming:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Meteorological Society, American Physical Society, American Quaternary Association, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Geosciences Union, European Science Foundation, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London-Stratigraphy Commission, InterAcademy Council, International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, International Union for Quaternary Research, National Research Council, Network of African Science Academies, Royal Meteorological Society and World Meteorological Organization.

As far as I know, there is not even one reputable scientific organization that has maintained a dissenting opinion regarding man-made global warming. Not even one.

The last such organization to do so was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which eventually backed away from its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate change.

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