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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.
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(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Monday January 28 2019, @12:53PM (1 child)
I do like how "global warming" has morphed into "climate change", which can cover any sort of event. Cold winters in the US? Like those that froze the Ptomac in the 18th century? Oh, wait...
And "heavy snow" in the Alps? At a place I used to work, there were pictures from the 1930s of people literally tunneling through the snow. Once upon a time, the AGW alarmists pointed to events like that as proof of AGW. Now we get a couple of rounds of heavy snow, and suddenly they change their tune.
I live in Switzerland, and the winters haven't changed noticeably. Some years you have more snow, some you have less. The glaciers are retreating, yes, but they have been retreating since the end of the "little ice age" in the 18th century. The earth is warming, and has been for the past two centuries, news at 11:00.
That said, I'll agree that we shouldn't be carrying out planet-wide experiments with our atmosphere. Cutting CO2 is a worthy goal, not because it causes AGW (for which there is poor evidence), but simply because we don't actually know what effect it may have.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:07AM
Wouldn't cutting CO2 be a planet-wide experiment with our atmosphere, whose effect we don't know?
We only have actual, reliable, verifiable, non-proxy data for less than 100 years. If the planet is billions of years old, it's a joke to think that data covering less than 0.0004% of the whole is sufficient to base drastic policy changes on.
And that reveals the truth: This is not about science, it's about politics. It was explicitly stated at international government meetings decades ago that "climate change is a vehicle for effecting policy." Scientists admitted decades ago that they believe that the public should be lied to for what the scientists and policymakers think is their own good.
But as they say, it's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.