# Global Warming **URL:** \ **Category:** Political Topics\ **Created:** [January 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673 "2021-01-01T16:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/21 "2022-07-20T22:28:38Z")
The exciting news is breaking new heat records every year! But the boring news is no more cold records ever again. ☹ ![](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/b/bbec35d568468a2dfc365af95b81d47ce598ada1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/22 "2022-07-20T23:47:44Z")
I wish it was as cool as 2020 ---
**Author:** ![The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_president/32/70075_2.png) [@The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_President)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/23 "2022-07-21T12:19:17Z")
Summer 2020 was a lot nicer than this crap we have had so far this year. ---
**Author:** ![The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_president/32/70075_2.png) [@The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_President)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/24 "2022-07-21T12:41:30Z")
I would have expected the left side to have a similar number of hot and cold records. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/25 "2022-07-21T12:48:25Z")
The data in the graph is limited to those 70 years. Presumably, the blue and red lines each add up to 1. ---
**Author:** ![The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_president/32/70075_2.png) [@The\_President](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_President)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/26 "2022-07-21T12:52:16Z")
Ah, that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/27 "2022-07-21T13:04:21Z")
The bottom line is that it’s all extremely random, but generally rising on average. So the primary strategies are to diversify and “buy-and-hold”, as they say. (Oh wait, wrong thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ranger/32/185_2.png) [@Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/28 "2022-07-21T14:05:19Z")
Did we avert an oncoming global ice age and turn our planet into the next Venus? ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/29 "2022-07-21T15:07:59Z")
Probably not. We just made the world marginally shittier for the next few generations. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/30 "2022-07-21T15:11:26Z")
It’s like COVID. COVID is hardly the end of the world, but it will make things marginally shittier for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ranger/32/185_2.png) [@Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/31 "2022-07-21T15:12:41Z")
You’re probably right. There’s no history of global ice ages followed by periods of warming on this planet. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/32 "2022-07-21T15:13:15Z")
There’s no such thing as an “ice age” happening in a few decades. ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/33 "2022-07-21T15:24:25Z")
Haven’t you seen “The Day After Tomorrow”? That happened over a weekend… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/34 "2022-07-21T15:25:28Z")
> [@Ranger](#): > > You’re probably right. There’s no history of global ice ages followed by periods of warming on this planet. > **Here's a good history of ice ages and periods of warming on this planet.** > > [xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline](https://xkcd.com/1732/) ---
**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/35 "2022-07-21T15:28:10Z")
Well, the last 22,000 years’ worth… ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/36 "2022-07-21T15:43:50Z")
Sure, it’s also 6 years out of date. Now we’re a bit farther down the current path. (At around +1.2) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ranger/32/185_2.png) [@Ranger](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/37 "2022-07-21T15:52:45Z")
That’s only since the last ice age (ignoring the “Little Ice Age” around 1650). Do you have a similar history between the other major ice ages? And based on that link and your graph, it does seem to confirm my conjecture that humans averted an ice age and created the next Venus. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/38 "2022-07-21T15:57:04Z")
> That’s only since the last ice age (ignoring the “Little Ice Age” around 1650). Do you have a similar history between the other major ice ages? And based on that link and your graph, it does seem to confirm my conjecture that humans averted an ice age and created the next Venus. There’s plenty of charts that show between ice-ages, but none of them fit on a meaningful scale because they’re 100,000 of years long. Saying we “averted an ice age” is silly because ice ages are too slow to mean anything at all. It’s absolutely silly. Comparing us to Venus is also silly. Venus’ atmosphere is a lot worse than ours will ever be. We might very well make things unbearably hot, like 130 degree summers, but we’re not going to have 800 degree summers. It’s like if you went out and bought $70,000 car. And then said to your wife “I averted spending 10 cents and instead spent $1 trillion”. Neither of those statements makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![magillaG](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e79b87/32.png) [@magillaG](https://community.goactuary.com/u/magillaG)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/40 "2022-07-21T16:19:20Z")
What about 2 days before the day after tomorrow. Wait a minute … that’s today ! ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/global-warming/1673/41 "2022-07-21T16:19:56Z")
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