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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: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 28 2019, @05:13PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 28 2019, @05:13PM (#793090) Journal

    It's not just hotter highs and colder lows. It's also more violent tornadoes and hurricanes. And more of them. Are we seeing more floods than ever before? More forest fires than ever before? More drought in some places?

    Are these things real?

    If they are and they get worse, shouldn't we begin trying to curb the damage being caused by humans? Or should we just ignore it for the convenience and profit of a few?

    Major infrastructure changes take time. We should be working towards such changes before we're doing so under any kind of time pressure caused by constantly kicking the can down the road. Why NOT try to limit CO2 emissions -- within reason, and economic reason? Why not invest more in solar, wind, wave and battery technology? These things don't get perfected overnight. Just like the original primitive automobile. So why not try to work with other nations to try to gradually, reasonably fix this problem?

    Why is that seen as such a bad thing?

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday January 28 2019, @05:32PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 28 2019, @05:32PM (#793105) Journal

    To be fair, it had long been predicted that as we left the "little climatic optimum" storms and weather variability would increase. So what the "climate change" (aka "global warming") has done is merely increase the strength of something that would have happened anyway. So far. (Of course "merely" can mean the difference between a nuisance and a catastrophe, but what of that.)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @05:49PM (#793119)

    because of how it is done. with lies and force. don't fucking tell me i can't burn my wood stove to keep warm while whole cities of chem plants pump cancer into the air. don't try to steal more money from the people while the IRS loses 19 billion a year to fraud and spends the rest on death and lining leaches' pockets. fuck your establishment/government solutions, you dumb ass slave.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @07:07PM (#793168)

      This comment I think encapsulates very well the zeitgeist when capitalism nears the end of its curve.

      The elites get away with murder and we cannot even heat our own houses.

      It's one of the dangers of placing so much wealth under the control of so few people....

  • (Score: 2) by gottabeme on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:56AM

    by gottabeme (1531) on Tuesday January 29 2019, @12:56AM (#793340)

    It's not just hotter highs and colder lows. It's also more violent tornadoes and hurricanes. And more of them. Are we seeing more floods than ever before? More forest fires than ever before? More drought in some places?

    Even the government reports say that hurricanes are at a low, not a high.

    Your rhetoric is so transparent. Asking a bunch of pseudo-scientific questions, appearing to be just so incredibly reasonable--how could anyone disagree with you? How could what you want possibly be seen as such a bad thing?

    You're either a liar or a fool. Which is it?