Posted on 01/14/2024 10:30:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins played in brutally cold conditions Saturday night. The Buffalo Bills game against the Pittsburgh Steelers was postponed until at least Monday due lake effect snow. I am writing this piece on a particulary chilly Sunday morning in Georgia. Scrolling through social media on cold or snowy days, it is common to see comments like, “well so much for global warming” or “Ha, I have 10 inches of climate change in my yard.” When I see such statements, a blaring science literacy siren with accompanying flashing lights comes to mind. I have written on this topic before, but another quick refresher on warming climate and cold days is always needed.
The “Captain Obvious” point to make is that we are in the midst of winter. We will always have winter even as our climate continues to warm.
The current cold snap associated with the aforemetioned NFL game and my current discomfort is associated with extremely cold air oozing into the United States.
While not settled science yet, there are studies which suggest that climate warming is causing more Polar Vortex disruptions and that jet streams are becoming more “wavy.”
The Fifth National Climate Assessment reports, “....Arctic air, while still cold in absolute terms, is warmer than it used to be four decades ago.” Record high temperature days outpace record cold days, and the number of extreme cold days is declining.
In summary, yes we have cold days, and yes climate warming is happening too. Bundle up today.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Looking outside I think a new Ice Age is coming shortly. I don’t know for sure but I had 5 million dollars to study it I Might find an answer.
I REALLY need to start with the weather in Jamaica.
Weather is only a sign of climate change when it fits their narrative. Got it.
I’m in Upstate New York. We knew the nice winter would end and we’d be freezing our butts off...but did God really, really have to commence this just before the Bills game??
Forbes went Woke quite a few years ago.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Current weather conditions here in central Kansas: temperature 0, wind chill -17. Now I don’t have a Ph.D. in meteorology, but this old farm boy knows enough to say that’s pretty fricking cold. I guess my cows belching and farting and John Kerry’s private jet exhaust emissions are causing this ‘global warming’.
“”Now I don’t have a Ph.D. in meteorology””
Even those weather people with PhDs can’t predict the current weather. I often point out that they get paid very well to state: Chance of..... Perhaps.... Partly cloudy.... Partly sunny.
With any job I’ve ever had, if I said ‘there is a chance I will get done’ ‘Perhaps I will do it’ I would not be employed very long.
PhD
Piled
Higher &
Deeper
Yes - they have pinwheels for eyes.
Forbes magazine shills for the globalists.
Drinking the Kool Aid until the end....
Now I don’t have a Ph.D. in meteorology
What you need is a Ph.D. in terminology.
Then, you can just redefine words and concepts to fit your political agenda.
So exactly how hot is it at the north pole?
Gore and the Sierra club said it might ice free (by 2014). It must be like a bathtub now. Santa may have move south to avoid the heat.
It’s funny how global warming does not happen globally. I bet Al Gore can explain it.
I checked Barrow, AK. However, now you have to look up Utqiagvik, AK. Monday’s high and low are forecast to be both 13 degrees. Balmy. Next Monday, -15 and -17 degrees. Does it get warmer or colder as one heads farther north? Where is this warm weather that is pushing the cold weather south? Wavy weather currents are groovy.
Ah yes. Of course. Everything is global warming, errr, I mean climate change.
I don’t need some eco-lunatic from Forbes to “left-splain” anything to me.
Lying liars and the lying lies the liars lie about.
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