Global warming finally came to the US! (Time: live in, cost)

[civis]

Seriously? Billions stolen from taxpayers pockets to "fight" this?!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqhox6BmDms

[highlanderfil]

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-i...xtreme-weather

https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/cl...-polar-vortex/

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by civis

Seriously? Billions stolen from taxpayers pockets to "fight" this?!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqhox6BmDms

You are confusing weather with climate, a very common problem. Global average temperatures are still increasing, and 2020 was one of the hottest in recorded history.

[highlanderfil]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

You are confusing weather with climate, a very common problem. Global average temperatures are still increasing, and 2020 was one of the hottest in recorded history.

It's pointless. The aim of these threads is never to start a discussion or learn something, it's to antagonize and provoke, then accuse opponents of narrowmindedness and intolerance.

[BRU67]

Originally Posted by civis

Seriously? Billions stolen from taxpayers pockets to "fight" this?!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqhox6BmDms

Not taking sides on this one way or another but you do realize that the term "global warming" is not accurate yes? The discussion is around climate change.

Anyway, FWIW (probably very little because the debate's so political), the record high for today, 2/15, was 69 degrees - in 1954. The record low was -9 - in 1905. And on January 24, 1967, just before the Blizzard of '67 belted the area right in the mouth, the temperature reached a high of 65 degrees. So unusual temperatures are nothing new.

[Kmanshouse]

People who point to a cold weather snap and consider it evidence against the fact that the earth's temps are rising in general are really not worth engaging.

[dcisive]

The truly sad part is there are those that actually believe YOU can change the climate that is a natural cycle. They fail to look at the historical movements of change over literally centuries. Yet our government prefers to throw money at foreign countries (while they put next to NO effort financially into it). Our Socialistic tendencies are showing and will cost us dearly in the next few years.

[Caglee]

Originally Posted by Kmanshouse

People who point to a cold weather snap and consider it evidence against the fact that the earth's temps are rising in general are really not worth engaging.

People who look at the average temperatures during the time period that we began keeping records (100ish years) when the world has existed for 4.5 billion years, are not worth engaging.

[WINH]

Fact is that weather does run in cycles from approx 30 to 40 year cycles and looking back 100 years we have had 3 such cycles from late 1800s to near the 1950 range it was brutally warm and the period from the 1950s to the 1985 range was a very cold period and guess what from then until now it has been warm again. Looking back even further the same pattern exists. Scientists and newspapers in the 1970s were calling for action to stop the advance of next ice age. Time magazine in 1975 was extremely concerned that their cover had an article about the coming ice age. The world has seen hot and cold throughout and has survived always. The arctic had palm trees growing there a million years ago and where you all live had ice 100 feet thick in the ice age so yes there are cycles and people forget history if they did not live in certain time periods.

[ram2]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

2020 was one of the hottest in recorded history.

Not true. Global warming also means winter temperatures should be steadily rising, but this is not the case. The "experts" cherry pick data to support their claims. I still remember seeing the "Looming Ice Age" cover on Time magazine in 1977 warning us about the coming ice age.