ARRRRRRRGH!
Friday, July 3rd, 2009 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoHere's a concept I wish more people would understand.
Weather is like me flipping a coin and saying whether it's heads or tails.
Climate is like 20,000 people all over the world each flipping one coin 40,000 times and recording the general trend of number of heads versus number of tails.
I swear if I hear one more idiot make the statement "Well, last spring/summer/fall/winter has been cooler than normal so global warming is false" or "This spring/summer/fall/winter was the warmest/driest/wettest on record. Global warming is at fault!" I am not going to be responsible for my actions. This is like me flipping a coin 10 times, it coming up heads 7 times, and saying "The odds of me flipping this coin and it coming up heads are 7 out of 10." Sorry, no. It doesn't work that way no matter how much you may want it to.
This is the #1 reason I refuse to debate climate change in people.
Weather is like me flipping a coin and saying whether it's heads or tails.
Climate is like 20,000 people all over the world each flipping one coin 40,000 times and recording the general trend of number of heads versus number of tails.
I swear if I hear one more idiot make the statement "Well, last spring/summer/fall/winter has been cooler than normal so global warming is false" or "This spring/summer/fall/winter was the warmest/driest/wettest on record. Global warming is at fault!" I am not going to be responsible for my actions. This is like me flipping a coin 10 times, it coming up heads 7 times, and saying "The odds of me flipping this coin and it coming up heads are 7 out of 10." Sorry, no. It doesn't work that way no matter how much you may want it to.
This is the #1 reason I refuse to debate climate change in people.
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Date: 7/4/09 01:28 pm (UTC)Oh wait. If that was true, they wouldn't have been sued (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel#Slogan) until they changed their slogan.