ARRRRRRRGH!

[tsaiko]

Here'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.

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[jaysons-lady.livejournal.com]

On the weather topic, I just wish we would get some of that rain ya'll are getting up north to come down here. I think we've gotten maybe 1/4 inch in the past three weeks. Too bad there isn't a way we could move the rain to where it's needed.

(I do believe in global warming, and humanity's part in affecting the planet. I am also neither a republican or a democrat.) (The paternal side of my family doesn't believe in global warming at all, but then they also only watch Fox news.)