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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:39PM (3 children)
Wow, a web comic is now considered "raw data" by the people concerned about this stuff... We have to be jumping the shark on this, it is like the shoeshine boy telling you to buy stocks. All the suckers are bought in, time to shear them. Perhaps that is related to blaming extreme cold on CO2 now too*.
* Actually, the original CO2 theory (from when they wanted to extrapolate a downward trend) was that it would increase humidity, which would turn to precipitation when the air traveled to the poles. This would cause more snow/ice to form there which would reflect more sunlight, thus leading to an "ice age". This idea will likely be making a come back in the next 10 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @06:12PM (2 children)
The XKCD author is a huge nerd that does quite a good job of using real data to make jokes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:47PM
So? A web comic does not pass for "raw data", even if a "huge nerd" made it. This is ridiculous.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 29 2019, @04:06AM