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>Most of the cold air was locked up over the Artic this past winter, whereas normally it is carried south by the jet streams. Some areas of the planet did have
by scythe 7y ago
>Most of the cold air was locked up over the Artic this past winter, whereas normally it is carried south by the jet streams. Some areas of the planet did have record cold in February. An article about February's snow in Baghdad, Iraq (the second snowfall in the last 100 years)
The "second" snowfall would mean it wasn't a record. The data showing this winter was the warmest on record as a global average (not just Virginia) takes these outliers into account. Nothing about those events calls the general warming trend into question.
>Humans need to work on being climate-flexible, not being "all in" on global warming.
No, humans need to accept reality. Carbon dioxide emitted by human activity is warming the planet and that could destabilize parts of the environment that humans rely on.
>The third logically valid option is that climate is now cooling due to the solar cycle.
This is a joke, right? You said it yourself: the period of the solar cycle is 11 years. It cannot explain a phenomenon that has been observed over more than a century.
- teslabox 7y agoThe bit in my comment about the period of the solar cycle being 11 years was a quote. The sun also oscillates in intensity over hundreds and thousands of years. The sun was (allegedly) slightly less active the Europe's colonial age, which motivated a lot of people to leave Europe. The sun was slightly more active during most of the 20th century, leading to the observations behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Some scientists, who aren't wedded to the anthropogenic theory, have looked at all the solar numbers and concluded we're due for a couple decades of weak solar cycles (global cooling) before the warming resumes. I don't know who to believe, I just wanted to point out that there might be a reason behind this alleged "warmest winter ever" other than "it's the CO2". I'm not particularly interested in debating with someone with convictions of hot-earth environmental catastrophe being more reasonable than cold-earth environmental catastrophe, so feel free to have the last word.
- scythe 7y ago>I don't know who to believe. You should believe the IPCC. >Some scientists How many physicists do you know? For me it's about 30. You know how many of them accept the scientific consensus that human activity is causing climate change and it's a problem? All of them. >I'm not particularly interested in debating someone with convictions I don't have "convictions". What I have is a degree in physics.