The Washington Post reports that the "lower 48" states of the USA are enjoying spring-like weather. It quotes a meteorologist as saying 1495 record high temperatures have been reached during the month of February (as against 10 record lows); among them:
[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 20 2017, @07:09PM
Peak warmup, 8000 years ago? Slowly cooling since then? History in Europe demonstrates that the climate hasn't been steadily and slowly cooling for 8000 years. Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up now?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @08:35PM
Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up now?
So this is not history repeating itself, it is only Runaway repeating himself. Again. Oh dear.
(Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Monday February 20 2017, @09:38PM
It's well known. There was even a comic about it: https://xkcd.com/1732/ [xkcd.com]
I'm sure you've seen this before. Perhaps you dismissed it because it was a comic, but the science [wikipedia.org] was established long before.
Of course, we may have passed that by now. CO2 will do that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @12:37AM
But the path being followed is actually the "optimistic scenario": https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm [skepticalscience.com]