(September 27, 2019 at 7:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Understanding global warming is as simple as understanding adding numbers and dividing the total to get an average. I can't do the extreme math myself, but it is really as simply as middle school math, but with extreme amounts of global temperature records put in to a computer model and averaged out.
It is also as simple of thinking of the ice caps as the air conditioner of the planet. Overload the fridge by leaving the door open, and putting a blanket over it, the unit eventually breaks down. That is what burning greenhouse gasses are doing. Like if you stuck a live hair dryer on full blast in the fridge and put a blanket over it.
Just like I can't build a laptop from scratch like a factory, but I damned sure accept that my laptop doesn't run on pixie dust.
If an adult is telling you your laptop does not run on pixie dust, and a kid agrees with that adult, why bitch at the kid for telling you the truth?
No, it is not as simple as middle school math. The difficult part is understanding why it is valid to abstract the vastly complicated problem into relative simple formula, and exactly which relatively simple formula is valid and why.
