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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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday January 28 2019, @05:04PM (3 children)
Science is not about polling people and what they believe is credible. This is the exact opposite of science. Climate change is something that requires scientific study. So if that's what passes for believing in science I'm tempted to say people should just stay in the dark.
And let's not get started that ONE season's winter being sufficient evidence that climate change IS real - or NOT. The synonym for this headline, in my opinion is, "More people are starting to believe the plural of anecdote is data, partly due to the fact that most people cannot critically think."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by stretch611 on Monday January 28 2019, @11:15PM (2 children)
You are absolutely correct.
HOWEVER...
In order to get people to actually do something about the problem, they need to accept the fact that it exists.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @01:38AM
Just because there is a problem doesnt mean there is anything to be done about it.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 01 2019, @09:31PM
True. But if they accept it for reasons that are BS, then they can be persuaded to believe there isn't a problem for reasons that are equally BS. If next year it is a mild winter and summer and people stop believing in the validity of climate change... it will be that much harder for what the truth was all along than if they'd never decided at all.
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