The recent unseasonable mild weather in Chicago, and the current unseasonable weather on the East Coast, is NOT evidence of global warming! You cannot take a single weather abnormality and attribute it to climate change. Same with Hurricane Katrina, same with any single weather event. To make such a gigantic leap in logic makes you sound ignorant.
The same goes to the (even bigger) idiots who say things like, “Wow, it sure is cold out! Global warming is bullshit!” let me say it again, you cannot take a single weather abnormality and attribute it to climate change.
The melting of the polar ice caps is evidence of global warming. The fact that 2007 was the second warmest year on record, right behind 2005, is evidence of global warming. A mild spell in Chicago in the winter, one that isn’t even unprecedented (60 degree temperatures have occured in 1949, 1950, 1967, 1975, 1989, and 2005, to name just a few years) is not.
Sincerely,
HiAmanda
I don’t know, maybe I should just be happy that the warm spell is making people believe that global warming exists so that people will actually do something about it. But as a scientist, these claims by otherwise very intelligent people are driving me up the wall.
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January 11, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Hear, hear.
January 12, 2008 at 7:24 am
Ha, though I just now remembered that I did say this to my friend, the budding environmental scientist, upon the snowstorm the day before Thanksgiving: There. It snowed before Thanksgiving. Will you all shut up about global warming now?