Global Warming? Absolutely.. Right now it is 26 degrees above normal where I live.

[Stuart G]

Normal high temperature for the Chicago area on December 26 is 33 degrees. Right now it is 59 and we will get to 62. We have already set a record for heat for today. And it is about noon. People can argue this and that. But 60 degrees in late December in northern Illinois?. Tomorrow still predicted to be in the 40s, and that is 10 degrees above normal.
Sure it has been cold. And it will get cold again. But this is way beyond a normal heat spell in late December. Way beyond the beyond

[nilram]

1. And Moscow is above freezing with no snow.

Unheard of. And Australia is on fire, under a tremendous heat wave.

[dalton99a]

2. Putin: "Nobody knows" the causes of climate change

Putin has always been reluctant to acknowledge the link between human activity and global warming.

At his traditional year-end annual news conference last week, he again insisted that "nobody knows" the causes of climate change.

[Blue_true]

6. Pooty has to sell oil and natural gas. nt

[Phoenix61]

9. It's to Russia's advantage as the world gets

warmer. They get their northern sea route and lots and lots of farm land. That they get to profit off oil that makes it all happen is just the icing on the cake.

[Ohiogal]

3. In NE Ohio today

It is 60 degrees! And the sun is out! I can’t ever remember it being this warm during Christmas week.

[Dukkha]

11. yup here in central Ohio

above 60° yesterday and today the warmest Christmas I can ever remember.

[madinmaryland]

14. It hit 65 in SW Ohio earlier this afternoon. Was wearing short sleeves! It's late December.

[at140]

4. Celebrate the warm spell in Chicago!

During my 37 years living in Chicago area, I still remember freezing my ass in January, which was usually the coldest month. Moved to Seattle area and it was rainy but don't have to shovel rain. Now in balmy Florida, and it is so much better weather here for my 79 year old body.

[Blue_true]

5. In your last paragraph, you mixed up weather with climate.

The pinhead climate change deniers nail us when we do that. When they see boatloads of snow they make the derisive query "climate change?" Weather is a short term event, climate is the longterm trend of atmospheric activity over a region or the world. So when climate is considered, it is possible for a place to be very cold on a given day, but it's longer term temperature warmer than what has historically happened there.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Thank you for making that clarification

[PCIntern]

8. Philly Xmas Day

Out in short sleeves for brief periods 5-10 minutes.

Never when I was a kid would that have been possible.

[Aristus]

10. Our winters here in the Northwest have been getting noticeably cooler in the last few years.

No doubt attributable to the disruptions in the offshore currents due to the rise in oceanic temperatures.

It's only the idiots who say: "It's cold today; that means global warming isn't happening!"

[redstatebluegirl]

12. My husband the scientist says we should call it Global Climate Change.

He says that the nuts who don't want to believe it point to high snow totals and cold weather and then say it isn't real. The crazy weather is clearly our earth and atmosphere crying for help.

It is 68 degrees in Oklahoma today, I think that is a record or close. My husband is out washing the car.

[The_jackalope]

15. It won't be long before "Global Climate Catastrophe" gains traction.

Because that's what it really is. And it's not a decade off, either. It became a global catastrophe a decade ago, but most people were blind to it for various reasons (not all having to do with greed.)

[msongs]

13. 55 below zero in alaska this week. way below avg. nt