/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15111387
On the off chance this isn't a troll thread. Climate science has always been difficult to find strong footing for. Meteorology is hard enough and it's just a week down the road. There are so many factors that we cannot viably measure and do not know that it gets very messy quickly, we can't fully predict how the climate system will work unless we are sure about how most of the parts work with good certainty (which we don't), we can make predictions based on historical data and models but we don't have hard-fast equations that we can depend on like other fields do.
If you're wondering why you keep seeing bullshit, it's because of the media and now politics. I fucking hate the scientific reporting that goes on. What we're most certain of is that more CO2 in the atmosphere = higher temperatures (on average). When people say things like "Sea levels are rising", "Glaciers won't exist", or "The ocean will acidify" they are drawing conclusions based on the vague but solid postulation that CO2 in the atmosphere = higher temperatures, and the very provable fact that humans are emitting CO2 into the atmosphere (some of these implications are more viable than others). Once they get these morsels, whether they get them from some quite corner of the academic community or out of their own ass, they are free to write all sorts of bullshit news stories to grab views and clicks telling you what the science says.
That was back in the day, now we've got politics in the mix and it's all fucked to shit.

Fuck this, I'm going to bed, I'll watch the RUD webms tomorrow
>t. australian