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this kind of stuff is pretty much normal every few years.....and as i suspected(bought a new snow blower in november), we're getting it.
so..........why exactly is it again, that we all should be worried?
The fact you're basing your entire opinion solely off the weather in your neighborhood.... That's why
I'm worried, to be honest. The general public does not think much further than that, unfortunately, and also doesn't realize that weather isn't climate. I'm not trying to insult you CAP, it is just that your view is very myopic in this example. You consistently post about the weather in your area....again, not climate.
In a cruel twist of fate, the UK and the US both had deep cold snaps this winter. Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world is much warmer. The Arctic is warmer still than it was. Alaska had a very unseasonably warm winter. The entire southern hemisphere has baked through summer.
But, considering global policy originates in the UK and US, there will be a serious push by the general uneducated masses to reject AGW, all due to a cold winter. In short, most of the voter's decision is based on weather they experienced and not upon the climate of the biomes. Whether or not AGW proves true or proves false, basing one's decision on this winter is completely illogical. And, from what I've seen from the general public where I live, that is exactly what has happened.
But, again, I stand by my own opinion. Unless someone discovers a feedback inhibitor in the climate system, or a negative feedback loop, we're already along for the ride. Even if we stopped our ways in a drastic manner, we're locked in for massive issues. Our population needs to be culled anyway, in my estimation. That's the cold, impartial scientist in me, though. I fully don't expect our species to change until it is almost too late in any case...we use our large brains to explain off the warning signs, instead of analyze them. In any case, I will live out my life in temperatures only marginally higher than optimum, and will not see the collapse of the ecosystems from top-down and bottom-up pressures, along with wildly erratic climatology. My great grand children will live and die in that sorrowful time.
The belief that there
isn't a problem if every year isn't warmer than the last is dead wrong. This is where the term "Global Warming" went wrong.. it gives a certain expectation by definition, and the term is subsequently negated by a cold year amongst warm ones.
