• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If you take a look at geologic time, we’ve had huge climate swings… I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity, or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate.

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      1 month ago

      No, we haven’t had huge climate swings. Show me one graph with a similar swing in temperature.

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        1 month ago

        My client crashed twice when trying to add a link in to my comment, and then I’m frustration I neglected to add it when it when I wrote it the third time. I have edited the comment to reflect the fact that it’s a direct quote from a climate denying senator. Apologies.

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      1 month ago

      If you took a look at geologic time and understood it, you would be frightened with how quickly average temperatures worldwide have been increasing, which is how I know you’re full of shit and know nothing about geologic time

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        1 month ago

        You are right and I agree with you. I quickly wrote that comment and I doing so failed to get across my sarcastic quoting of Republican senator Ron Johnson. I have edited the comment with the appropriate correction.

    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      from the article in the OP:

      The global warmth is linked to human-caused climate change and a powerful El Niño event, which ended in June.

      do give it a read. it also refers to this abnormal set of temperatures being more of a trend over the past twenty years rather than a one-off event like sunspot activities.

      i don’t quite see the point of ostriching ourselves into denying our part in climate change. all that does is absolve the large corporations that have accelerated it of any blame.

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        1 month ago

        I didn’t format my comment to show it was a quote from Ron Johnson as Jerboa crashes time to time when adding a link to text, and I ignored formatting altogether the third time I tried to make the comment. I’ve edited it to include what should have been there in the first place.