With the month long heat wave.

  • @CanadaPlus
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    11 months ago

    They complain about how weird and unprecedented the weather has been the last few years, but if I so much as mention the word “climate” an awkward silence descends. I also had a guy hint at some weird conspiracy theory about the sun recently.

    • BarqsHasBiteOP
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      911 months ago

      Say weather change and see if that gets the ball rolling.

      • @CanadaPlus
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        411 months ago

        I think I might have at some point, actually. It seems any suggestion that it’s not a few years of weird coincidences shakes people.

    • @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      411 months ago

      Right? Climate is the average of weather, usually over 30 years. So if the weather is substantially different for a few years in a row it starts impacting climate.

      This is simple arithmetic.

      • @CanadaPlus
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        211 months ago

        Exactly. And I figure a lot of those people think that they’re the same thing, or would have, anyway.

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        211 months ago

        I kind of wish they had more than teased whatever they were thinking. I actually know a thing or two about the solar cycle and the current going-ons with the sun.