Just show them that one xkcd about how abrupt the current warming is and how nicely it lines up with industrialization. The comparison between the natural slow shifts in global climate vs. what’s been happening the last century or so is the clearest counter to “but the climate has always been changing”.
The other times that things have changed in comparable timescales, it’s been caused by supervolcanoes or other such calamities.
Edit: Oh yeah one caveat: The xkcd is ten years old and we’re now actually already around +1.5°C.
I was about to find that same xkcd. 😅
It really is a good way to portray that.
It also shows quite well that shit is hitting the fan, almost horizontally, in a time period where we have proper temperature measurements from all around the world. Even if humans were not at fault, we need to do something about it.
Just show them that one xkcd about how abrupt the current warming is and how nicely it lines up with industrialization. The comparison between the natural slow shifts in global climate vs. what’s been happening the last century or so is the clearest counter to “but the climate has always been changing”.
The other times that things have changed in comparable timescales, it’s been caused by supervolcanoes or other such calamities.
Edit: Oh yeah one caveat: The xkcd is ten years old and we’re now actually already around +1.5°C.
I was about to find that same xkcd. 😅
It really is a good way to portray that.
It also shows quite well that shit is hitting the fan, almost horizontally, in a time period where we have proper temperature measurements from all around the world. Even if humans were not at fault, we need to do something about it.
Yeah, as if “Mass extinctions are a natural occurence!” were an excuse to carry on business as usual :D
You’re not going to convince anyone with a shitty drawing of the “Earth Temperature Timeline” and then start at 20000BC.
You’re a jerk
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