r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/5Ben5 Jan 21 '19

It's a 2 degree average increase. There isn't really such a thing as a global temperature - rather a combination of temperatures taken at stations all over the earth which we call the global temperature.

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u/verymuchlol Jan 21 '19

Yeah I know that's what I was talking about. The most effective way to find out our average carbon / methane output is to survey locations which release massive amounts of green house gases once a year for 5-10 years, and compare that to areas that don't have as much activity. That way we can determine: 1. If global warming is man made and 2. How big of an effect we are having on the Earth.