“say these early winter storms are associated with climate change, global warming / cooling”
Which one is more powerful - man or nature?
“How would reducing carbon output in the US actually help, would it make a difference?”
Depends on if you see man as a cancer on the Earth or not. Since pre-Cambrian times Earth is now at a record low level of CO2. Right now it’s at about 450ppm. At 150ppm or lower all life goes extinct. It has gotten below 260ppm some 7,000 years ago and two thousand years before that global warming had peaked. Yes, the Earth has cooled as the Earth’s CO2 has gone up. Warming leads CO2 buildup by about 300 to 800 years.
“...what could anyone actually do about it?”
To stop the Earth’s climate from changing? Nothing. Can man change the Earth’s orbit? Nope. Can man change the number of sunspots on the Sun which affects the amount of clouds that are created on Earth? Nope. Can we change the output of the Sun? Nope.
The only thing we can do is adapt to the changes.
The Earth has been in an ice age for the past two million years. It has inter-glacials, like we have now, that last for about 11,500 years on average, and then goes back into the deep freeze for another 90,000 to 110,000 years. We see this cycle happening in the ice core samples from Antarctica and Greenland going back some 800,000 years.
Thanks for that info…so giving more money to DC to “combat” climate change is a scam I guess.