[–] BustyChicksFTW 3 points 8 points 11 points (+11|-3) ago
That was a cold wave that was only valid for the north east of the states.
[–] 0x5f3759df 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago
I'm pretty sure both the warmest and coldest year ever happened well before humans existed.
[–] BustyChicksFTW 8 points -1 points 7 points (+7|-8) ago
Incoming "Global Warming is a lie" right wing activism flood.
[–] theburntsausage 7 points -1 points 6 points (+6|-7) ago
ah yes, the notion that the planet was always as it is now and never ever changed or changes......
where once there was ice there will now be lush land, then, where once there was lush land there will be ice.
[–] frankenham 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
That's why they ditched the term 'global warming' and just changed it to 'climate change'.. because you can argue the warming trend is slowing down but you can't argue the climate changes!
[–] KidQuantum 5 points 0 points 5 points (+5|-5) ago (edited ago)
Alert the satellite records!!!!!
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2016/01/uah-v6-global-temperature-update-for-dec-2015-0-44-deg-c/
Edit: sorry, I didn't realize the RSS and UAH satellite records were funded by NOAA. Alert NOAA!
[–] indiglo_girls 3 points 4 points 7 points (+7|-3) ago
Yep, that 130+ year record. In planetary terms that isn't even long enough to be considered a blink. Now, when it actually gets warmer than it has ever been, that's gonna be a hell of a problem, for whatever could survive those conditions.
[–] BustyChicksFTW 8 points -3 points 5 points (+5|-8) ago (edited ago)
Actually, scientifically speaking and mathematically observing, we'll kill more than the Permian extinction (75% terrestrial species and 95% of aquatic species) at the rhythm that we're going at. There is even a calculated small chance that we end up a barren world like Mars due to vicious cycles and chain reactions.
Edit: Welp the downvotes sadden me since those are scientific theories with actual numbers and Voat is supposed to be open-minded and a free speech platform but hey. Whatever I guess.
[–] frankenham 5 points -1 points 4 points (+4|-5) ago
I actually got snow this year, and a lot of it too which is really rare.
[–] ReverseEntropy 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
What does that have to do with a global warming trend? localized temperature fluctuations, including weather changes, colder and warmer periods that are unusual, and other phenomena, are known to be caused by the way that warming changes weather patterns and ocean temperatures. When talking about global climate change we have to look at the overall picture, rather than micro-trends due to temporary fluctuations in air currents.
Where I live it has gone back and forth from being exceptionally cold, to way warmer than usual, to having odd precipitation patterns that swing from way too much to almost nothing. But if you look at it from a longer term perspective, the temperature has been on the rise, on average, for decades, and precipitation is actually lower overall.
Weather is a crazy thing.
[–] BustyChicksFTW 6 points -1 points 5 points (+5|-6) ago (edited ago)
Most people don't have the intellectual capacity to understand climate change and global warming. They think global warming will happen in every single local environment and not on a massive average earthly scale.
It's as exasperating as that congressman that threw a snowball in congress on the floor to prove that global warming is a lie because snow still exists.
Edit: This is literally 90% of the Voat userbase tbh. You try explaining to them what albedo is and LITERALLY how to calculate it, with formulas that WE OWN AND CAN PROVE and they'll still call it a lie.
[–] cli-che-guevara 7 points 5 points 12 points (+12|-7) ago
So much for the "18 years" bullshit. I wonder what the average Voater will come up with this time.
[–] 3986561? 4 points 19 points 23 points (+23|-4) ago (edited ago)
"The NOAA is controlled by Jews who use Hollywood to perpetuate a myth that the tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gasses mankind produces every year are having an effect on the climate. Instead, the truth is that the independently verified, globally accepted change from ~250 parts-per-million of atmospheric CO2 concentration to ~350 PPM is caused because Jews want to turn white people into cucks for Arabs and leftists, and every researcher who has ever obtained an arctic ice core sample and put it into a gas chromatograph to obtain the historic CO2 concentration has just been paid off by dirty Jew money.
CO2 isn't being emitted by the agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing sectors, atmospheric CO2 concentrations haven't been rising, and even when I inconsistently admit they have been rising, it's due to a natural cycle and even though I dismiss the very concept of science, here's a fringe scientific article showing that this is natural, and even if it wasn't, greenhouse gases can't cause temperatures to rise. Jews."
[–] BustyChicksFTW 5 points -2 points 3 points (+3|-5) ago (edited ago)
This comment literally gave me a headache. Jews this, jews that. Islam this, islam that. Christ Voat.
[–] Sippio 1 point 5 points 6 points (+6|-1) ago
Beautiful. I just linked that same NOAA page to a climate denier in another thread. Instant downvote, followed by a graph spanning 5 million years suggesting a downward trend.
[–] tame 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
My father-in-law told me that there is literally a global conspiracy to "adjust" weather station readings so that they conform to the global warming narrative.
I wish I were making this up.