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[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When we look closely, we can see some clues as to what is going on.

  1. Winters are, mostly, not quite as cold as they used to be. They're not as cold as they were in the 80s, and the 80s weren't as cold as the 60s.
  2. Summers are, mostly, hotter than they used to be. Again, they're hotter than the 80s, and the 80s were hotter than the 60s.
  3. Which shows that, regardless of year to year fluctuations, the average temperature is slowly creeping up.
  4. Air flows are changing direction. This is most notable when air from the Arctic and Antarctic flows to different places at different times, or does it more often, bringing unexpectedly cold weather to some localities. Yes, the immediate temperature right here, right now, can go down even though the average temperature goes up.

Remember the joke about the statistician who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of just three inches? We can say the same thing about the climate denialist who froze to death in the snow in a place where the average temperature is a balmy 95°F (35°C).

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Proof why global climate change doesn't exist: "Cold parts of the world in winter are still cold!"

Sounds pretty stupid when you say it out loud, doesn't it? Yes, winter still happens. And it still gets cold in winter, and will continue to get cold in winter for hundreds of years. If we ever get to the point that winter isn't cold, the human race will almost certainly be dead.