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That's really the only explanation for hattmall's perception of cold records being broken... because winters are actually getting warmer, and the number of reco

That's really the only explanation for hattmall's perception of cold records being broken... because winters are actually getting warmer, and the number of record cold temperatures is lower than it has typically been in the past: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/warming-winters-across-united-states https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/warm... I would add also that we now read news from all over. Instead of counting the number of local temperature events... we now count the number of temperature events from all over (the entire country, if not the world) because that's what the news presents to us. So we might perceive an increase in events, while in reality it has decreased. As such is the case in cold temperature records.

DoreenMichele 5y ago
I think climate change is real and that human activities contribute. I think climate change is a more accurate term than global warming. I also liked what one of my professor's said: "We are like fleas on the butt of a dog trying to figure out which way the dog is going." I've enjoyed some fictional stuff, like episodes of the various Star Trek series, that had stories about planets experiencing catastrophe caused by increasing levels of asteroid activity or similar events out in space. I liked the detail that the plot for the movie Pitch Black hinged on a long period of darkness caused by an eclipse on an alien planet. The earth is a living, evolving world and the layer of human-friendly biosphere is impacted by many long-term processes that we little understand and are ill equipped to accurately predict. Change is real. The need to adapt is real. This is actually stressful and all for humans across the globe. That doesn't mean we are doomed and it doesn't mean we really know what comes next.
- stOneskull 5y ago
  i've stopped cutting down rainforest.

DoreenMichele 5y ago

I think climate change is real and that human activities contribute. I think climate change is a more accurate term than global warming. I also liked what one of my professor's said: "We are like fleas on the butt of a dog trying to figure out which way the dog is going." I've enjoyed some fictional stuff, like episodes of the various Star Trek series, that had stories about planets experiencing catastrophe caused by increasing levels of asteroid activity or similar events out in space. I liked the detail that the plot for the movie Pitch Black hinged on a long period of darkness caused by an eclipse on an alien planet. The earth is a living, evolving world and the layer of human-friendly biosphere is impacted by many long-term processes that we little understand and are ill equipped to accurately predict. Change is real. The need to adapt is real. This is actually stressful and all for humans across the globe. That doesn't mean we are doomed and it doesn't mean we really know what comes next.

stOneskull 5y ago
i've stopped cutting down rainforest.