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[Hellmanns]

Originally Posted by gorbelly

It's not as though trying to halt human contributions to greenhouse gas accumulation means opting for a freezing earth. So I don't really understand your point.

And there is plenty of harm in a warming earth. Once again, global warming does not only mean things get warmer. It also means that weather gets more severe, precipitation patterns change, and entire ecosystems undergo radical change. In many parts of the world, it can mean catastrophic winter cold, which may be counterintuitive to many people... but climate can sometimes not be simple or intuitive, as it's about complex global systems and inputs. Climate is not weather. You can't understand what the climate is doing by walking out of your house and looking around. This complexity is probably why it's so easy or so many to be in denial about climate.

Cooling or warming, changes to the earth's temperature are very problematic. And very small changes in global temperature have big consequences on the ground. But I have no doubt that if human activity were causing global cooling, there would be just as much denial.

You're going to have to explain to me how global warming can cause catastrophic cold. In an IPCC report it is claimed:

Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms but could cause an increase in freezing rain if average daily temperatures fluctuate about the freezing point.

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