Global Warming/Climate Change

[OttifantSir]

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.

This argumentation reminds me of two movies I like: The Gods Must Be Crazy (I & II)
The bushmen of Kalahari had never seen a bottle of Coca-Cola in the first one, nor even a white man. They saw the bottle as a gift from the gods until they all started needing it for everyday life. Point here: They had never seen it before, so they drew conclusions on the basis of their lives so far. They made a false conclusion about the bottle, but they were still entitled to make that conclusion. I didn't repute your statement about it being scientifically insignificant, nor that I hadn't done research on it. My conclusion may be wrong, misinformed or otherwise incorrect, but that's MY conclusion on the matter. And it is somewhat backed up by scientific research. We know the world is warming up. It's not yet as warm as it was in the late thirties (apparently the heat records of the 20th century occurred then), but it's getting warmer. I HAVE read enough on this to know that that's what's happening. I also know that noone knows all the reasons why it is happening.

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.

Well, me sitting with my grandchildren and trying to explain what snow is, IS a possibility, simply because I don't have the numbers. As far as I know, noone has them, so therefore this IS a possibility. Even a scientific possibility since it hasn't been proven wrong yet. My reason for calling it a freak possibility is the latitude and longitude of my chosen place to live on this planet. It's pretty far north, and the inclination of the Earth's rotation is such that my coordinates doesn't get the full benefit/onslaught of the Sun's rays. It is therefore generally colder than coordinates further South (from the North Pole and further North from the South Pole)

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

Climate scientist are certainly the ones properly schooled about this matter, but they are not the only ones educated about this matter. The definitions are quite closely matched, but education comes in many forms. It is something we obtain every second of every day. Education is comparable to experience. Schooling is education/experience set within strict guidelines, (hopefully) based on science, and where you are required to gain a certain degree of Knowledge/Facts (as we know them today anyway).