Comment Talking about the weather (Score 1) 130
The thing to understand
There's nothing to understand. Just two fellows comparing their local climate. It's essentially meaningless.
That's the thinking of people who point out that the weather outside their doors is unusually cool despite global warming.
There's no way to know that's what the poster meant without asking him yourself.
When you consider six tenths of a degree increase across the roughly 10^18 kg of the troposphere, that is as vast, almost unthinkable amount of energy increase.
Yes, the Earth receives a lot of solar radiation. It's almost like we don't need to drill for oil and gas quite so much if we could just put some turbines and panel up. But that makes the wrong people rich, so that's bad from someone's point of view. Changing the political power in controlling energy in a few central places is pretty dangerous. Imagine if everyone had some solar panels and could sell a little bit of excess electricity or skip buying electricity from the grid on most days. Someone rich and powerful would cease being quite so rich.
P.S. my subject line got cut off because I kept revising it to fit then forgot to finish it (my idea was never going to fit)