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Originally Posted by Pierre
No I'm not, the Met office predicted that this summer would be very hot, they went on record at the begining of the year, and they were wrong. I'm not talking about next here but months in advance.
Obviously using all of their historical data they predicted a blazing UK summer, and were wrong.
Predicting Hurricanes is easy, I predict that there will be several hurricanes and/or tropical storms in the South Atlantic and Carribean between August and October.
The truth of the matter is that "scientists" and "experts" don't know what effect the changing climate will have on the planet.
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Ok. They are scientists and experts. They can be wrong but that doesn't diminish their expertise in their areas. If they are to be treated with such disrespect and contempt then who should we listen too? The only way to disprove their claims is with
science, practised by
scientists, who need to be
experts in their field.
Looking at long term effects on climate is different to predicting the weather. They know for example about freak weather patterns can occur and not if they will occur. We seem to be having freak floods more often than usual for example. While we did not get a heatwave in summer but we do seem to have a warmer November. Neither of which matters because it's how all the data trends over long periods that prove anything.
So they look at this, and the scientific community has pretty much formed a consense that Global Warming is real and the rate is being increased faster by human factors which are producing additional amounts of Carbon Dioxide, among other things.