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Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer
An anonymous reader writes "A huge, lingering ridge of high pressure over the eastern half of the United States brought summer-like temperatures to North America in March 2012. The warm weather shattered records across the central and eastern United States and much of Canada. From the article: 'Records are not only being broken across the country, they're being broken in unusual ways. Chicago, for example, saw temperatures above 26.6Celsius (80Fahrenheit) every day between March 14-18, breaking records on all five days. For context, the National Weather Service noted that Chicago typically averages only one day in the eighties each in April. And only once in 140 years of weather observations has April produced as many 80Fahrenheit days as this March.'"
Sorry but we see this kind of pattern every 10-12 years. in 1995 we had a very unseasonably warm winter followed by a march that was in the 60's and 70's I remember at LEAST 4 times in my 46 years of life having a very mild winter followed by a unseasonably warm later winter early spring.
But That's ok, I've already got a buttload of "ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING!!!" idiots going off around me. Sorry kiddies, this is not global warming, just a freak coincidence of just the right conditions. Maybe if people actually paid attention to their life they would have noticed this stuff.
Oh and dont go off your nuts when it snows in June... Mother nature is a bitch when she teases like this.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
"The sky is falling! Proof of global warming!"
Here's something to ponder - the past two summers were some of the coldest ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest. The last 10 years have seen a reversal of the global warming trend. We are undeniably in a decade-long chill at this point in time. Even desert areas (not "drought ares") in Australia are getting drenched with torrential rains which is extremely unusual there.
It's time to relax, sit back, flip the lights on, rev that engine, and stop worrying about this boogie-man called AGW. Much better to concentrate our efforts at fighting industrial pollution involving actual poison, not carbon dioxide.
since the data clearly supports the basic theories that make up climate science, there's no good reason to be doubting the science.
There is actually a good reason. Because ceasing all carbon emissions would be an (absolute) economic catastrophe, but dealing with the slow changes of global warming might not be.