Threre is weather and climate change, bot don't you think some of what hit the world in 2013 was both?
Earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, sinkholes, volcanoes, tornadoes, extreme heat, extreme cold. I never member a year with so many extreme events. I think this is the real beginning if climate change, not simply weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5wPd-H-hpI
2014-02-11T19:56:20Z
peg I asked a question and expressed an opinion, don't see where that qualifies as a judgement and and there is nothing anecdotal about the factual presentations in the video. Did u even watch it??
Dook, correct but it isn't outside the realm of possibility they could be aggravated by a warming planet and the are indeed extreme events And the question was "some of what hit..." I do know the difference since I have had classes in climate change and environment
Hey Dook2014-02-11T19:19:30Z
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Our anthropogenic climate change means increasingly volatile weather. Not everywhere, and always, and not evenly spaced over future years, but as a general trend.
But earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes are neither weather nor climate.
Edit: I have heard of minor earthquakes being caused by human activity, but not by the global climate. A Tsunami might cause more extreme DAMAGE with higher sea levels, but the wave itself would still come from a quake that is fundamentally related to huge tectonic plate on the earth's crust; unrelated to climate. A huge and lasting outbreak of many volcanoes, for God knows what highly unlikely reason, would of course effect the climate, but I'm aware of no causation in the other direction. I hope your classes in climate teach you to stay on topic. Geological extreme events basically do not belong in this category of YA.
By the way, the video is a sensationalistic hodge podge, made by an complete YooToob nut case. One his other posted videos is "Rise of a New World Order [Part 1] - 9/11 Conspiracy." Since you can't remove additional details from a question, if I were you, I would add an immediate apologetic disclaimer, or even delete the whole question entirely. That video is a prime example of the sort of supreme idiocy and doomsaying that has nothing do with science, but which deniers like to pretend does.
And you wonder why I don't take you seriously??? Earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes have absolutely nothing to do with global warming or your version of "climate change". NOTHING!!!
And if you have not noticed, everytime they say "this is a historic drought, heat wave, blizzard or whatever, it is always followed by "not since 19xx". We are more plugged into the rest of the world. We see newscasts more quickly from more locations. I have no reason to believe that any of this is not just weather.
Look, you talk about the deadly Katrina??? The most deadly hurricane to hit the US was in 1900, the second most was in 1928, the fourth and fifth most were both in 1893. In fact, Katrina only hit #3, because of the levy being in disrepair, as it was only a cat 3.
Man looks for patterns. I don't believe the toast with the Virgin Mary was a miracle. Man looks for patterns.
If you want to discuss a few changes you would expect and show a statistically significant change, that is one thing. What the warmers are doing right now is BS. If you understand multiplicity, you will understand why looking at 100 things will show 5 that are statistically significant. This is why I so deride warmers when they bring up floods, drought, tornadoes, hurricanes, cold weather, warm weather, etc. MUTIPLICITY!
Pegminer, I agree with you mostly. Be careful when you look at those reports and try to make conclusions though, as there is still the issue with multiplicity.
You may be right, but I think you need to be very cautious making judgments like that. The global media brings many things to our attention that we would not have known happened even 10 or 20 years ago. Every year the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society publishes a "State of the Climate" issue that looks at some of the major weather events from the previous year, and they're analyzed to see if such an event would be statistically expected in an unchanged climate. I think it's better to look at such analyses rather than anecdotal evidence.
EDIT: No, I didn't watch it--if your question was based on it you should say that. I usually don't watch linked videos on here, they are usually a waste of time.
Let see, Earthquakes, tsunamis, sinkholes and volcanoes are not weather, nor these are climate. These are geological events. Flooding, tornadoes, extreme heat and extreme cold are examples of weather extremes. Now please provide at least one example of climate change. I still don't see any in your examples.
Climate change takes many hundred of thousands years on this planet. You won't be able to note it in your lifetime.