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With the month long heat wave.

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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They complain about how weird and unprecedented the weather has been the last few years, but if I so much as mention the word "climate" an awkward silence descends. I also had a guy hint at some weird conspiracy theory about the sun recently.

[โ€“] someguy3@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Say weather change and see if that gets the ball rolling.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think I might have at some point, actually. It seems any suggestion that it's not a few years of weird coincidences shakes people.

[โ€“] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? Climate is the average of weather, usually over 30 years. So if the weather is substantially different for a few years in a row it starts impacting climate.

This is simple arithmetic.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. And I figure a lot of those people think that they're the same thing, or would have, anyway.

[โ€“] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The sun is expanding into a Red Giant and that's why it's getting hotter, obviously /s

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I kind of wish they had more than teased whatever they were thinking. I actually know a thing or two about the solar cycle and the current going-ons with the sun.

[โ€“] SnowBunting@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think I'll be more concerned about the sun expanding into a red giant