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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.
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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.
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[–] 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.
[–] mamwad 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
And where I'm from we finally started having winter last week.