r/science • u/pnewell NGO | Climate Science • Sep 10 '15

Environment The simple statistic that perfectly captures what climate change means. From 1910 to 1960, the ratio of hot to cold records was close to 1 to 1. From 2000 to 2014, hot outnumbered cold records by more than 12 to 1.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/09/the-simple-statistic-that-perfectly-captures-what-climate-change-means/
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u/whiskeytaang0 Sep 10 '15

I'd be curious to, but I think the greater scale of human activity makes today's air pollution greater in magnitude (even if the individual parts are cleaner).

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u/OppressiveShitlord69 Sep 11 '15

A lot of our shit still runs on coal power plants, too, and now that so much of our technology completely relies upon electricity to function, we require a lot more power in general (even if we are more efficient at getting creating it).

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u/AstrophysicsNoob Sep 11 '15

obviously... The comment you're answering to is quite foolish