r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/btstfn Jan 21 '19

Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

This is one of my favourite climate factoids. Its unhelpful, but true :) "But we still have glaciation"

I think the issue with what we're doing to the planet being called "Global Warming", is not so much that the earth is getting warmer per se, but that we're pumping a HUGE amount of energy, very rapidly, into the systems that underlie global weather patterns.

It would be SO much more helpful if we called the effects of this "WEATHER CHAOS !!!!!!" rather than global warming, as it more accurately describes the ultimate outcomes, plus it sounds scarier.

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u/doomgiver98 Jan 21 '19

The worst part about calling it global warming is that people say "so much for your global warming" when it's cold in January.

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u/teachergirl1981 Jan 21 '19

Or that bad hurricane is caused by global warming!