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Global warming just means there's more energy in the atmosphere. Hotter summers, colder winters, more powerful storms, ...

• eloff 11y ago
  Where do you get colder winters from? I don't see that as a likely outcome. Yeah the Earth's climate is a complex system, and global warming produces complex and sometimes unexpected effects. But you can't say colder winters just "because complexity". The likely effect, unsurprisingly, is warmer, shorter winters.
  • mjevans 11y ago
    I am not educated in this field, but anecdotally, I believe it comes from the more energetic movement of the atmosphere drawing coldfronts down from the polar regions more frequently. I also prefer to use the phrase 'Global Weather Chaos' rather than 'Global Warming'. Much like I also prefer the term 'Waste Reducing Reactor' to 'Breeder'.
    • eloff 11y ago
      I don't think weather chaos is that bad. Us humans are adverse to change, but that change will be both good and bad. Between that and the sea level rising it will cause a lot of resettlement and moving around, but hardly the end of the world in itself.