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Same with it can cause unseasonably cold days and unseasonably warm days, those aren't mutually exclusive and the range of extremes is expanding in many regions
by WorldMaker 4y ago
Same with it can cause unseasonably cold days and unseasonably warm days, those aren't mutually exclusive and the range of extremes is expanding in many regions. Which remains a big reason to avoid "global warming" as a term anymore when discussing climate change. Even extreme winter storms are a consequence of climate change and the additional energy in the climate affecting all types of weather.
Early climatologists phrased it as a growth in heat in the planet and that earned the nickname "global warming", which is correct enough on a long enough scale, but the real problem of climate change is that it is a ton of additional energy (per Thermodynamics Laws same thing, different side of the equation) in the climate. (For instance, additional energy in the case of winter storms meaning stronger winds which mean lower wind chill temperatures and more precipitation [snow].)