Climate Change Question (Watched BBC Clip then saw rebuttal need answer)

[Lord Coke]

So I watched this video on bats dying in Australia. It seemed really convincing. Then this passage was pointed out to me from a 1788 book. Has bats dying in this manner always been part of the ecology over there? . The author of the below passage was a British soldier that explored Australia in the late 1700s. How do you deal with the two. Is the 1788 account due to something completely different? Or is the BBC sensationalizing things and blaming preexisting phenomenon on climate change?

@Ruprecht what do you say?








"An immense flight of bats driven before the wind, covered all the trees around the settlement, whence they every moment dropped dead or in a dying state, unable to endure the burning state of the atmosphere. Nor did the perroquettes [parrakeets] bear it better. The ground was strewed with them in the same condition as the bats." - Watkin Tench, Captain of the Marines on the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788.

 

[K-Bag]

 

[djacobox372]

If scientists can show that heat waves are more common and/or more severe due to climate change than it a fair comparison.

For example: saying that climate change will cause more floods doesn't imply that floods never happened before at all.

 

[Ruprecht]

So I watched this video on bats dying in Australia. It seemed really convincing. Then this passage was pointed out to me from a 1788 book. Has bats dying in this manner always been part of the ecology over there? . The author of the below passage was a British soldier that explored Australia in the late 1700s. How do you deal with the two. Is the 1788 account due to something completely different? Or is the BBC sensationalizing things and blaming preexisting phenomenon on climate change?

@Ruprecht what do you say?



"An immense flight of bats driven before the wind, covered all the trees around the settlement, whence they every moment dropped dead or in a dying state, unable to endure the burning state of the atmosphere. Nor did the perroquettes [parrakeets] bear it better. The ground was strewed with them in the same condition as the bats." - Watkin Tench, Captain of the Marines on the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788.

I can't watch the vid. Bats and coral etc being sensitive to higher temps means it's likely to have happened before. It's the severity and frequency that speaks to climate change.
Much like today is 41 degrees here. Hottest November day on record. One day means nothing of course, even if it's a record. These records are being set year after year at the moment though, and that speaks to climate change.

 

[VivaRevolution]

Seems no different then the polar bear non-sense.

I am aware that many arguments made for climate change, aren't exactly good faith.

I think the opposite can be shown 10 fold though, where climate skepticism has been shown to be propaganda as well.

I have said it before, and I will again.

We know the climate is changing. We know man made greenhouse gasses are playing a role in this. We do not know the rate of change, or what % of that change is driven by man made greenhouse gasses. Everything else is conjecture and propaganda.

 

[nostradumbass]

I'd lean toward blaming existing phenomena on climate change, since that's the go to move. If it's not that, it's another case of the boy who cried wolf. Every hot day, every cold day, every storm, every draught, the migrant crisis, terrorism, your car ran out of gas? Boom, climate change, and the only solution is the socialism we've been trying to inact for 100 years under the guise of solving the crisis du jour and for you plebs to live like pets while the moralizers of the ruling class buy beach front mansions and fly private.

 

[lilelvis]

We’re all doomed. 5, 4, 3, 2...........