Global Warming Has Made the Weather Better For Most In US -- For Now (latimes.com)

An anonymous reader shares an article on LA Times: Since Americans first heard the term global warming in the 1970s, the weather has actually improved for most people living in the U.S.. But it won't always be that way, according to a new study. Research shows Americans typically -- and perhaps unsurprisingly -- like warmer winters and dislike hot, humid summers. And they reveal their weather preferences by moving to areas with conditions they like best. A new study in the journal Nature has found that 80% of the U.S. population lives in counties experiencing more pleasant weather than they did 40 years ago. "Virtually all Americans are now experiencing the much milder winters that they typically prefer, and these mild winters have not been offset by markedly more uncomfortable summers or other negative changes," writes Patrick Egan, a political scientist at New York University, and Megan Mullin, professor of environmental politics at Duke University. However, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, 88% of the current population will live in areas where the weather is less pleasant than it was before. The paper does not predict how changing weather patterns will influence migration patterns over the coming century.

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Fuck the rest of the world.

[danbob999]

It has been better for the US, therefore it must be good.

Re:Fuck the rest of the world.

[jedidiah]

The climate fear mongers have to desperately address the fact that the facts on the ground are contrary to the media narrative. You can only insult people so much before they just tune you out.

This is why "Global Warning" is now called "Climate Change".

An obvious response to the retort "then it must be boiling someplace else" might be to point to the geopolitical complications of climate change. Much like with GMOs, it's not always about the "but science". There are a wider range of issues to be considered.

Climate hysterics are usually absent any suggestions regarding how to handle the situation. The who's and how's are actually the least interesting part of the discussion.

One of the British talking heads actually gets this and has moved on to the "now what" part of the discussion.

Still Not Buying

[medv4380]

When you take in the Heat Waves of the 30's we're no where near that bad in the US, and from the 60's to 1991 had a significant effect of global cooling due to a fairly large amount of SO2 in the Stratosphere due to a series of volcanic eruptions. Is this an improvement due to Global Warming CO2 or an improvement due to a lack of SO2 eruptions into the Stratosphere. I can go into why the rain has spontaneously increased since about 2010 due to an enhanced evaporation effect caused by the last solar cycle that was made possible by the Suns Northern field going wonky. This was in part predicted by NASA when they started detecting Northern polarity CME's ripping though the Magnetic field as if they were Southern CME's back in 2008. But no just because I have facts on my side I get labeled the Equivalent of a Holocaust denier.

An ALMOST scientific prediction

[mi]

However, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, 88% of the current population will live in areas where the weather is less pleasant than it was before.

That's almost scientific. It has a measurable number and it does not use the evasive "may" or "could", using a solid "will" instead.

What's missing is the when. 2021? 2026?

Meanwhile, I'm sorry to say, none of the similar predictions of the past have come true — at least, none that the adherents of the Climate Science are able to cite today.