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That's why we use the term "Climate Change". A freak heat wave and a freak blizzard both show that climate is changing, and not for the best. Two sides of the

• z0ltan 5y ago
  And how is that related to human activities? Such events have been going on since earth's inception. The problem is that people try to add the "human factor" subtext on without directly mentioning it, and that's where the problem is. There is no definitive proof that human activities are increasing/decreasing earth's own natural processes. That's it.
• thehappypm 5y ago
  I think part of what makes people skeptical is that even if there was no anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere, there would still be these so-called "freak events". There were big hurricanes in the US's Revolutionary War era, for example, that had huge impacts on naval forces in the Caribbean. If climate change truly was a total hoax, believers could still point at a myriad of extreme weather events and say "look, climate change is real".
• itsoktocry 5y ago
  >A freak heat wave and a freak blizzard both show that climate is changing, and not for the best. Freak events don't show anything, that's why they are freak events.
  • 0xTJ 5y ago
    Yes, they do show things. When freak events happen over and over, year after year, that's a bad sign, and shows that things are changing.