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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
really? .8 degrees up in the last 150 years? Do you plan on living to be 3000 years old?
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.8 degrees kelvin - a kelvin degree equals 1.8 degrees farenheit. So, 1.44 degrees F.
As a global average measurement, not a regional measurement, it's pretty significant, and represents a huge amount of heat energy.
And you are either misrepresenting or misunderstanding it's significance. It's not a temperature rise that will cook us like lobsters that is the issue. It's changes in weather patterns and intensification of weather extremes that is what the models predict - and what the measurements still seem to confirm.
Increase of deserts, changes in rainfall and snowfall patterns, stronger storms, hotter hots, colder colds, changes in plant growth patterns, migrations and extinctions, stuff like that.
Suggesting it's going to cook us, and that thats what we are talking about, is silly.
Why did you pick that particular image? You do know it's silly, right?
Oh - and we as individuals will all be dead soon - but humans as a species have been around for a while and will presumably still be around 3000 years from now - so, even if you were being hyperbolic, someone, our descendants, will hopefully be around 3000 years from now.