I grew up in Florid, and started scuba diving in 73. My best fossil finds were offshore, because Florida was 2-3 times it’s current size during the last ice age. Ancient river beds now underwater were the best places. Florida was a savanna loaded with megafauna. Now we get New Yorkers. We are due for the end of this interglacial period. Interglacial periods usually end with a heat spike followed by rapid cooling. Good luck to all of you snow folks. My first snow experience was when it snowed in Tampa Fl.
Sorry for all of the typos in my last reply to you.
The data has been manipulated enough that it is hard to say whether we have been experiencing any type of “heat spike” in the last 30 years. When politics, and science are mixed the “science” as the media and public define it becomes hopelessly corrupted.
The weather and climate are naturally cyclic in both the long and short term. I have read that the “temperature record” using Greenland ice core data from the end of the last interglacial period indicate some sort of “heat spike”. I am not sure if that record, and the methods used for analysis are accurate or not.
When I was a youngster, I had a geology teacher who each summer for many years took survey equipment and a group of students to nearby Mount Rainier to measure the Carbon Glacier which was the largest on the mountain, as it advanced further toward the lowlands. Years after I graduated this long-term trend reversed itself and the glacier is now smaller than during the three years that my friends and I visited it.
In the 1950s through the 1970s we had several record-breaking winter storms, and the concern was that we were heading toward a new ice age. But there was no hysteria as there is these days, a few snowstorms and advancing glaciers on Mount Rainier did not cause much anxiety for my friends and I.
I have grandchildren in their teens and twenties who swear that the weather is much warmer now than when they were younger. And they are very concerned about this. The trends in this area in the years since they were born have not been meaningful in any way. But the "global warming" propaganda has been relentless. My assurances have been ignored for the most part. In our country the youth feel that they have superior intellect to their elders.