The Paris Accords Won’t Stop Hurricanes.

If successful, the Paris Accords will reduce the impact of climate change one hundred years from now.

Scientists are skeptical that the Paris Accords will make any impact on global warming, but the one thing they do agree on is that the program’s impacts would only be felt a hundred years from now. Scientists worry that if the global temperatures rise another 1–2 degrees over the next hundred years the impacts could be devastating. Scientists aren’t worried about the next year or even the next decade — the impacts of global warming and climate change can only be felt over the course of a century.

You can’t feel global warming. The fact that you had the hottest summer on record is not a result of global warming — it is the result of the weather. The weather changes daily, monthly, and yearly — climate change is global and takes a century to see. The fact that we’ve only had one major hurricane in the last decade isn’t a result of a perceived pause in global warming — it is just how weather works.

So if you’re in the media or politics — quit embarassing yourself — climate change isn’t causing hurricanes, killing trees, causing famine or war. The weather is what it is — any changes we can make to the climate will happen AFTER our lifetime — when we’re dead and buried (and likely when our kids are dead and buried as well).