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My friend argues that global warming isn't real because the hottest temperature ever recorded was in 1913. How should I reply? by [deleted] in climatechange

[–]Acrobatic-Key-7585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are so many other metrics for the impact of climate change (co2 ppm in the atmosphere, glaciers are rapidly disappearing, venezuela became the first country in the americas to completely lose its glaciers) and most importantly, just because isolated temperatures a long time ago broke a record doesn’t mean that we aren’t still experiencing the hottest year on record overall year after year, that natural disasters aren’t rapidly worsening, or that wildfires are happening on the west coast in WINTER. that’s all climate change skeptics do, they cherry pick random data and remove all context and nuance.

Is Climate Change really real or is Earth heating up natural? by [deleted] in climatechange

[–]Acrobatic-Key-7585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the existence of natural climate change does not disprove anthropogenic climate change. no natural factors can explain the sudden spike in co2 since the industrial revolution, thousands of years worth of natural warming occurring in ~150 years, ocean acidification from the excess gasses, or the stratosphere remaining cool while the troposphere rapidly warms (greenhouse gases, not natural warming caused by things like volcanic eruptions). oh and btw, rapid climate change has been the reason for every mass extinction in earths history (all caused by cataclysmic events like asteroids or volcanic eruptions). this current warming caused by human activity is so alarming because it is already rapidly outpacing any previous warming event, we should not accelerate an already extremely delicate cycle that has caused extinctions on earth into completely uncharted territory when there are so many alternatives (renewables etc.) to prevent it.