Quote Originally Posted by OttifantSir View Post
I don't mean to flame you or anything derogatory here, but from what you say, you don't really dispute my claim to have seen the climate change. I have not done scientific research on the matter, but I have a memory of how things was. I HAVE seen the weather pattern change. Is it signifant in scientific terms? No. But that doesn't take away the fact that what I have experienced gives me the conclusion that the weather has changed since I was born. Maybe it will change more during my lifetime, maybe it will stay the same. There is the freak possibility of me sitting with my grandchildren and telling them that when I was a boy, we had snow towering two meters and sometimes more. And they will ask what snow is. That is a FREAK possibility, but with our knowledge of the climate till date, it IS a possibility, simply because we don't know how to predict the future.
It's a question of statistics. You need a population big enough to draw conclusions. If you've only seen one German guy in your entire life who had dark complexion and spoke Turkish it would be a faulty assumption that all German people look and speak like that. You haven't lived long enough to draw conclusions.

You have no idea if it's a freak possibility, or no possibility. You can't work out anything about it, because you don't have the numbers.

Let's just leave it to climate scientists to argue about it. They are the ones educated in these matters.