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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:58PM (3 children)
I remember trick-and-treating on Halloween with snow on the ground in the late 1970s. And that snow stayed until late March. The 1970s had cold winters and that was normal weather. I wasn't around before that, but I remember being told by the old-timers that the decades before that were different-some years were wetter, some years were dryer, some years spring came early, some years spring came late.
It's just weather-earth's atmosphere trying to reach thermal equilibrium. Temperature, pressure, wind, precipitation all fluctuate hourly, daily, weekly, yearly, and through the decades,centuries, and millennia.
People really love to behave like chicken-little just because today is 6 degrees warmer or colder than the same day last year, or the wind is calm today but yesterday it was blustery, or if it rains for five days straight. Just because you're not enough now to a cold winter or heavy snow winter doesn't mean that this year is the first time in the history of the planet that has happened. Weather patterns often last a few years so cold snowy winters might be the "norm" until the mid 2020's. Then winters might warm up again and the freakout will begin again. :)
Like the OP said, it has all happened before and will happen again, man-made climate change or not.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @03:39PM
I remember that year as well. I remember being pissed when my mother forced me to wear a winter coat over my costume. I also remember when we had our Easter egg hunt one April in the snow too. Finding eggs is pretty easy when you just have to follow the tracks in the snow. "Hey dad. It looks like the Easter Bunny wears the same size shoes as you."
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:58AM (1 child)
This comment is an example of why metamoderation is needed. Whoever modded this "Troll" should have his moderation privileges revoked.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @03:32AM
You could make an argument that he is trolling the climate alarmists. Or possibly the denialists. Given how fervent both sides have gotten, just about any comment on the weather is a troll or flamebait to someone.
"Hi Jo, Nice day today." "YOU HORRIBLE PERSON WHY DO YOU HATE THE PLANET AND WANT US TO ALL DIE IN FIRE YOU DAMNED CLIMATE DENIALIST?"
"Hi Fred, bit of rain coming down out there" "GLOBAL WARMING IS HOAX TO CRIPPLE AMERICA YOU COMMIE BASTARD"