Extreme Cold Continues In Northern United States

[Baalzamon]

the-pi-guy said:

Baalzamon said:

DevilRising said:

Nintentacle said:
Global warming everyone...

That's not how climate change works. It's called "climate change", not "weather change". The world is very gradually heating up by just percents of degrees, but that is in fact having devastating effects on droughts and melting polar ice. Having severe cold WEATHER streaks does not mean "Hey everyone, see Global Warming was a myth", it actually confirms that climate change, to a warming planet, is real. Why? Because the gradual warming of the planet over time is causing more and more hectic and erratic weather around the world, as a side result. It's effecting all of the natural planetary systems, and will result in more and more huge hurricanes and mega-storms and things of this nature. That's just how shit works. Science.

I'm sorry, but how can you honestly believe what you just said? Hey guys, because our planet is warming, its actually causing cooling to colder than it has EVER been in 125 years of recorded history right now.

I realize warming may be the cause of erratic weather (more powerful winter storms, hurricanes, or other random stuff), but it simply makes no sense why it would lead to temps actually being able to become cooler than ever. Unless you are suggesting that this would have broke the records by 5 degrees if it happened 100 years ago?

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/coldweather-2009.html

For one, the cold during that year was not even comparable to this. It was just a generically cold winter. Obviously that will still happen, and I didn't indicate it can't. What I said is bogus is RECORD cold weather. In 125 years of data, records are very often there for a reason, and they very rarely get broken (especially temperature records). What I am saying is that if we warm up by (just as an example 2 degrees in the last 125 years), then a record cold snap now should only approach within 2 degrees of ones from back then.

Regardless of that, there are factors out there having FAR more impact than humans, such as sun intensity...hence why temps have been brutally cold in the past with like 4000ppm CO2. It really is quite ironic how scientists are trying to say that our whole climate is warming based on...50 to 100 years of actually good extremely reliable data (I realize we can extract data further back, but it is much less reliable), when our earth has been around for billions of years.

I know, I know, you are going to say how science shows all of this to be true blah blah blah. Yea, science also said that the earth used to be flat, as well as tons of other things we now believe to be completely insane.