Ya know, climate changes and warming/cooling trends are completely natural. Trying to blame it on anything other than natural occurance based on the short period we have records of is nonsense.
I was being tongue in cheek with that comment, but don't tell me that global warming is nonsense.
I was an anthro major, my best friend is a Geologist, and his wife a climatologist. So to say that
"Trying to blame it on anything other than natural occurance based on the short period we have records of is nonsense" is, well, nonsense. The data they've shown me, and what I've read from people that deal with that stuff for a living are, no offense, a bit more of an authority. I know the politics you side yourself with tell you to believe it's bogus, but may I ask what data are you basing your opinions on?
As for the record:
We don't have a short period of records. We have millions of years of data in Trees, geology, oceanography, etc. (That is, if you believe in that sort of stuff) There is a pattern of cooling and warming trends that go back millions of years that we can trace. And glaciers that have been dated to have existed through all of the interglacial Ice Age periods have disappeared. In other words, they've existed previous to the last cycles, of the last two glacial periods (Ice Ages) and the last two interglacial periods (One of which is now)
The record you speak of as "a short period of time" is that of only the human recordings of global temperatures and carbon dioxide readings. But there is much more data in the geologic record. Saying there is no record is a misinformed statement.
Yes, changes and anomalies are perfectly normal I agree, and YES this heatwave isn't proof of global warming (again, I was joking). But there are billions more points of data that prove that it is happening.
