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The new spooky definition of climate change appeared shortly after the data of global warming was sent up the flag pole and not enough people saluted. The reason for the limited salute was global warming was a clear cut concept, and even though it could be proven to have risen by 1 degree globally, this amount seemed too trivial. We see more than this every night to day. It did not seem to be a big deal.
Therefore, a new marketing program began and a new flag was run up the pole called climate change. This is far more nebulous than global warming, and therefore easier for manipulation and sales.The new branding appears to have worked better, since it has plenty of unknowns and this can activate the imagination and pander to the inner fears of doom sayers and the free market needs of high tech clairvoyants
What I would like to do is talk about climate, but in more the traditional, matter of fact way, without any doom and gloom attached, to see if we have climate change, relative to long time conventional standards before doom and gloom.
If you like growing exotic plants around the yard, the types of species you can safely grow is dependent on your climate. I live in a temperate climate. There are also subtropical and tropical climates that are good for growing. This break down of global climate has not changed, in 100 years, since I still cannot grow plants from other climates, while and the plants for my temperate climate still grow fine. I keep waiting for my temperate climate to change to subtropical, so I can grow southern plants, but this has not happened. I get upset, since I was promised climate change. So what are they talking about?
Let me break it down even more, I live in the North East, USA, where my temperate climate has four seasons. Many people who live here, save and retire, choose a change of climate; willful climate change, and move to Florida or Arizona. But if you stay in place and retire here, waiting for climate change you still have the same temperate climate with four seasons. Climate change is not cooperating with this standard, either. If you want a change of climate, for retirement this requires choice, moving and some savings.
In New England, where I live, we have four seasons. I have never witnessed the same day of the year, on another year, being exactly the same as that day on a different year. Some years on March 4, we have two feet of snow from a "nor easter'. Other years it is cold with a large lingering snow cover. On other years, on the same day, it is 70 degrees and the early flowers are coming up. This year it is clear, with some snow cover, but in the teens at night. Is this constant change for any given day of the year, man made climate change or is this normal? I think change is normal and should not to be feared, but the branding implores that any change is bad and is leading to a global disaster. Maybe the problem is the new climate change uses a new definition that is not classic. Maybe if I knew what they define as climate change, it would make sense.
What tends to happen in weather science is the change, year after year, for this day of the year is lumped into average values for that day, along with the extremes of high and low, by the weather people. This appears to create a misconception, especially for the younger audience, that each day of the year, over the past 100 year is the same; average, and the normal changes old timers are we used to seeing, is now somehow connected climate change b deviating from the average The old song is performed for a new audience, who thinks this is new, until an old timer points it out as an old song with a different voice.
Maybe we can get some of the weather stations to show the past 100 years of data, for any given day, to show the audience that clones of days, would be climate change, since the data rarely repeats for any given day. We may not even find two days of the year with the same temperature, pressure, humidity, cloud cover, dynamic wind speed/direction, rain, snow, cloud types, solar UV output, and time of day for spikes in any parameter. If we did this the "new" flag would be lowered to half mask, before it is folded and retired.
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