It ain't warming, that's fer damn sure. There is snow. Accumulated snow on my property. In October.
I hear ya 88GT. Here in Brown County the snow flakes were so big they were knocking squirrels out of the trees. Ok maybe not, but it snowed really hard for a couple of hours and we're still having flurries.
Saw a headline that it's the first measurable snowfall on Halloween in 124 years.
Well, 124 years ago, you were just a young man...That was on the news last night.
I do not ever remember having to deal with snow on Halloween.
Saw a headline that it's the first measurable snowfall on Halloween in 124 years.
Oddly enough, it was the Republicans who coined the term global warming. Even more odd is that scientists were allowed to correct it to global climate change. Yet most oddly of all is that anyone doubts that it IS happening. What we are experiencing, say an out of time snowstorm, is called "Weather", say it with me now...."Weather."
I have never doubted that climate change was/is happening. I'm a geologist, an earth scientist; the study of climate (paleo and current) falls right into our wheelhouse, and at heart, I'm still a skeptic as to the causality. One cannot dispute that glaciers and ice caps are melting, that sea levels are rising. These are empirical observations to support global climate change that aren't debatable. They are beyond impeachable evidence. But what is causing it?
Sun activity, surely as I'm breathing, is a factor. Natural processes such as volcanism and methane release from ice, you'betcha. What about anthropogenic causes? (That'd be people) Water vapor, absolutely yes. Methane and CO2, not so much as you get from media sources, yet still enough to matter.
One thing I will say for certain is that while anthropogenic input of CO2 into the ecosystem is happening, the CO2 as the triggering mechanism argument holds no validity with me... chemically, the processes in the oceans as a sink for CO2 end up (if CO2 is so elevated as has been ranted on for a couple of decades) with the precipitation of Calcium Carbonate (aka Calcite, aka Limestone) at depth...and that isn't happening anywhere that we've looked.
However, one postulation I give some credit to is that we actually slowed the inevitable warming trend by putting sulfate/sulfite into the stratosphere/lower-mesosphere in abundance prior to the 1970s, when it was mandated that coal-fired anything had to have stack-scrubbers that removed the sulfurous particulate the was partially reflecting sunlight. Since that project worked so well we are now getting the full onslaught of the solar radiation that was previously reflected by the sulfur compounds.
In the end, it's purely ignorant to say global climate change isn't happening because an early weather cold snap happened; and to believe we've had no impact whatsoever even more so; we have, no matter how small. Ultimately its become a positive feedback loop, meaning it will continue until it reaches its thermodynamic endpoint. and then it will reverse and we'll go back to an ice age.
While You are warming up your flamethrowers take 15 minutes and listen to this guy, he has an idea that warrants discussion on how to slow the process while we study/figure out solutions. David Keith: A critical look at geoengineering against climate change | Talk Video | TED.com