Posted on 12/23/2015 7:28:06 AM PST by daniel1212
This week, with 60-degree or warmer weather for Christmas Eve lasting into Christmas Day, you may feel a little guilty if you’re enjoying it.
You may also be asking yourself if this unseasonal warmth is climate change in action.
When the weather gets weird, we often have strong reactions to what’s happening out there. It may seem logical that if, somehow, humans hadn’t spewed trillions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the past century, we'd have a cold, snowy December as has often been the case in the past. Right?
Wrong. This Isn't Climate Change. There have been many snowless Decembers before. Climate change isn’t responsible for this warm December. This year, it's connected to a strong El Nino and the polar vortex, which is whirling around the top of the planet so fast that the cold air can’t get out and escape south.
El Nino, which is warmer than average in the equatorial area off Peru, is adding a lot of heat to the atmosphere. It’s peaking right now, and it’s also going to spike the global temperature this year. 2015 will be warmer than any year on record, by quite a bit.
Here's more accurate way to think about how anthropogenic climate change is playing a role in our weather: Without humans, perhaps the temperatures forecast this week would be slightly cooler. Perhaps.
Over the coming decades, climate models predict fall-like weather extending later and spring-like weather arriving earlier. But there’s a lot more research needed into individual weather events and climate change...
Nearly three-quarters of the US population will experience temperatures over 60 degrees on Thursday. Records will fall from Florida to Maine
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Weather change. El niño.
Yes. Elect more Repubs and make Greenland green again.
No. Next question.
Nasa says industrialization causes cooling. So no.
We’re going to have a white Christmas in northern Arizona. All climate change is local.
Don’t care.
I like it.
Polar bears?
Screw em.
It’s just Weather , remember it was called Weather before Algore changed it to Global Warming
Saying the warm weather is due to climate change is like saying that the increased price of a loaf of bread is due to inflation.
(inflation = generally rising prices)
Did you mean schlong them?
Climatologists are not prophets.....but they are profiteers.
It’s it unusually warm on the New York/Washington axis, then the liberals in the media will report that it is an example of global warming. It all depends on what the media see when they step outside and see what the weather is like.
Of course, just ask a lib.
We’re flirting with a white Christmas here in the Northwest with record snowfalls in the mountains.
If that’s climate change, bring it on!
Yup, it is!
And it's also responsible for the record COLD Last year and the year before.
Remember the POLAR VORTEX?
No. It’s those damn chemtrails. Actually those trails are composed of atomized aluminum oxide. Here. Do some research. Http://www.geoengineeringwatch.com
No, it’s an El Nino year.
Translation (forgot to format for FR): ’ is an apostrophe (’).
El Niño
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