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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:26PM
geez, how do they know the temperature ...uhm ... errr ... 538 years ago?
i suppose using old wood, like when it's cold, they grow slow and when warm they grow faster, thus yielding "year rings", or how?
nothing can "capture" temperature today and reveal it, uhm ... errr ... say 100 years from now.
anyways, trees tend to generate shade and more trees, soon to be a forest(*).
forests are always colder then a non shaded area, methinks.
i imagine a thermometer hatching from a seedling, showing the temperature during its life time and then making a lot of other thermometers sprouting beside it.
the baby thermometers will show colder temperatures when growing up in the shade of the papa thermometer, until they reach the same height or papa was felled by some lightning or storm ...
anyways, modern thermometers tend to grow in cities, where there's lots of concert, asphalt and traffic and not on far away mountain tops or in deep wooden forests and modern thermometers generally show warmer weather ...
(*) maybe that comic curve also correlates with amount of trees on the planet?