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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:04PM (#793049)

    how the fuck is this interesting?

    here's the raw data https://xkcd.com/1732/, [xkcd.com] [xkcd.com] in a form that anyone can understand if they are willing to actually look at it.

    The planet Earth is heating up. That is established scientific fact.
    If you disagree with the measurements or the way they are performed, please address them in a coherent and factual way, don't just say "from where I sit", because that is meaningless.

    Humans are the main cause for the Earth heating up. That is also established scientific fact, see reports by the Intergovernmental panel on climate change.
    If you disagree with their conclusions, please make a factual rebuttal of their findings, don't just complain about being labeled a denier (which you are).

    OP asked for the AGW / Climate Change proselytizers to review the raw data themselves without the fudging /normalizing and come to their own conclusions and you post a link to a hack cartoonist who is best known for a $5 wrench anti-crypto meme and you call it "raw data." Way to prove his point. This is why your opposition brands you as religious zealots and not scientists. What is sad is that you have enough penitent parishioners to exclaim AMEN and mod you as "informative." WTF?

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