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posted by martyb on Monday January 28 2019, @07:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the Meanwhile-Carnarvon-Airport-(Australia)-Reached-113.7°F-(45.4°C) dept.

Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S., Dispelling Doubts About Climate Change

A poll released Tuesday showed that more people are starting to believe climate change is credible, partly due to the frigid weather which has gripped the United States.

The poll released by Associated Press showed that 48 percent of respondents found the science of human-induced climate change more convincing when the poll was taken in November 2018 than they did five years ago, compared to 14 percent who thought it less convincing.

Eighty-three percent of those polled who believe in climate change want the federal government to take actions to mitigate it, and 80 percent want their state governments to act, the survey found.

More people than expected supported a carbon tax to help curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to the survey.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/23/c_137768179.htm

Prolonged, Life-Threatening Cold to Grip Midwestern US This Week as Polar Vortex Plunges South

The coldest weather in years will put millions of people and animals throughout the midwestern United States at risk for frostbite to occur in minutes and hypothermia during the final days of January.

The deep freeze continued across the Upper Midwest on Sunday with temperatures plummeting well below zero in the morning. The low of 45 below zero F [-43°C] in International Falls, Minnesota, shattered the day's record of 36 below zero F [-38°C] from 1966.

As harsh as Sunday morning was, the worst is yet to come as the polar vortex gets displaced from the Arctic Circle and dives into the Midwest in the wake of the disruptive snowstorm starting this week.

https://news.yahoo.com/prolonged-life-threatening-cold-grip-165320957.html

Climate Change Cooks up Ideal Conditions for Snow

Look at all that snow in the Alps; has global warming taken a break? Alas, no, it turns out that the recent record-breaking dumps of snow across much of southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria are more likely a consequence of global warming. Why? Balmy temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are cooking up the ideal conditions to create snow.
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Global warming enhances the current snowfall … Anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the North Sea and Baltic are loading winds from the north with moisture,” tweeted Stefan Rahmstorf of the University of Potsdam last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/21/weatherwatch-climate-change-cooks-up-ideal-conditions-snow


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @12:10PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @12:10PM (#792956)

    Not here it isn't...I only wish the temperature was up in the 40's, at least for a month, so that the house would dry out properly so I can start on repairs..rain? this place is proverbially known for being somewhere where it always fucking rains...and recently it's been damper than usual (hence, need for repairs and upgrades to cope).

    I know, i know, I was taking the piss out of the 'Climate change' brigade a wee bit, I know it's AGW they normally witter about as opposed to localised warming, but even they, it seems, find it a mite foolish to excitedly wave their arms and go 'look, look Global Warming at work!' at people who're shivering their balls off...that message doesn't square with people's perception of reality, so a nicer catch-all like 'Climate change' covers a multitude of sins (and changes of predictions, politics, 'off message weather' etc. etc.).

    IANAFCS, but, for my sins, I used to work as a sysadmin in a Physics department where some of these strange beasties lurked, I've seen a computer model of the weather system running on a VMScluster which, at the time, had a better track record at predicting the daily weather here than a certain organisation's Cray..another one of their longer term models kept throwing up we're heading for another ice age..amusing as all this and the associated internecine warfare surrounding it was for a while, I gave up munching the popcorn and stuck to fixing their computer issues, fast forward a couple of decades and here we are..

    Call me cynical, but what GBS said about the Irish applies to Climate scientists, put one on a spit and you'll get another to turn it, FWIW, both the AGW and 'New Ice Age - mini or otherwise' models mean that if I live long enough I might get to see icebergs in the estuary...which will make taking the boat out so much more fun..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:34PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:34PM (#793070)

    Climate change was picked because global warming gives a mistaken idea about qhat is going on. The long term trend is warming, stop using short term weather patterns as your "proof". Possibly the planet will get much warmer, or it could devwlop so much cloud cover it goes into an ice age. It is hard to predict precisely, but the trends are still clear.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:55PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:55PM (#793196)

      Possibly the planet will get much warmer, or it could devwlop so much cloud cover it goes into an ice age. It is hard to predict precisely

      So what use is this "knowledge"?

      "According to my theory the earth may boil, or freeze, or anything in between."
      - No one can plan based off this info.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:45AM (#793337)

        The knowledge informs us that our activities are accelerating a process artificially and thus we should curb those activities and reduce the acceleration.

        Use your brain, stop trying to cherry pick little pieces so you can make a quick point. Either way, warm or cold, rapid climate change will be bad for humanity. Local weather patterns will be almost impossible to predict so I won't tell you to move to Canada or to Central America, but I will tell you to stop burning coal, gas, and other energy sources that pollute the atmosphere.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 29 2019, @03:39AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 29 2019, @03:39AM (#793412) Journal

      Climate change was picked because global warming wasn't giving a sufficiently mistaken idea about qhat is going on.

      FTFY.