> roughly one in ten record-breaking events would not have occurred without clim...

themartorana · on July 31, 2016

Because we've moved the climate in one direction or another by 10% already, and we've never polluted so heavily before. That's pretty significant.

That stat is also normalized over the past 30 years. Change is accelerating, so it would be more than 10% over the past 10 years.

jcoffland · on July 31, 2016

This does not equate to a 10% change in climate, whatever that even means.

> Change is accelerating...

What change specifically is accelerating? Your base assumption that things are unquestionably getting worse is unscientific.

themartorana · on Aug 1, 2016

I don't... what?

Anyway...

Since the new thing is to yell at any post that doesn't provide a link, here - change is accelerating: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/global-w...

But this isn't news. And it's all scientific.

jcoffland · on Aug 1, 2016

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/nasa-study-finds-eart...

themartorana · on Aug 2, 2016

Says the same thing as the article I linked.

"Global surface temperatures in 2015 shattered all previous records by a wide margin, the report shows, sitting 0.76C above the 1961-90 average. Temperatures over land, over the ocean and in the top 700 and 2,000 metres of the ocean all set new records."