pudge's Journal: Global Warming

Say whatever you want about global warming, but, um, don't say that higher-than-normal temperatures in the Northeast right now have anything directly to do with it. You do realize that the temperatures have risen like 1.5 degrees over the past HUNDRED YEARS, right? You can't actually FEEL any difference, or notice it with your senses.

KTHX HAND HTH.

You said it.

[Zeriel]

I always wonder if people who say that kind of thing actually live here. We have a winter like this every time El Nino acts up, and we get all excited in December/January about the temperatures and then we get totally crushed by snow in February, March, and April--which is my prediction.

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[WGFELyL5]

Didn't you see the Day After Tomorrow?

Global warming proponents believe that the trend of global climate change will lead to extreme climate instability.

It's a straw man argument to oppose "Global Warming" advocates on the basis of cold (or colder than normal) temperatures in x or y locale.

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[pudge]

Didn't you see the Day After Tomorrow?

Global warming proponents believe that the trend of global climate change will lead to extreme climate instability.

Oh, I know, but the point is that they are saying that the WARMER temperatures are indicative of global warming, not that extreme temperatures either warmer OR colder are indicative of climate change. The latter is fallacious too, but it's harder to prove it is fallacious, since I can't just say "no, global warming only means less than a .5-degree increase in temperature over the whole year," but instead have to say, "well, even if you think extreme temperatures are indicative of climate change, that does