Proof climate change exists

[jmowreader]

I live 105 miles by road from the Canadian border. As I type this, there's not one flake of snow on the ground. We're getting precipitation on a regular basis, but it's all rain.



This is a picture taken today of Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC, which is a combination football stadium and auto racing track renowned for being NASCAR's first weekly track. They were supposed to run the annual Clash, an all-star race that's the first competitive event in a NASCAR season, on Saturday night. They have officially moved it to Wednesday night because Goodyear doesn't make snow tires for stock cars.

[Groundhawg]

1. I don't think anyone has ever claimed climate change doesn't exist.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Trump? Much of the GOP?

[Groundhawg]

12. Name one.

[mahina]

3. ?????

Seriously? That’s been the claim for at least 40 years that I have witnessed.

Or do you mean to split a hair that it exists but it’s a hoax?

I’m very curious how you arrived at this conclusion

[Groundhawg]

13. I have never heard one politician claim the climate stays the same.

[Intractable]

6. My (asshole) neighbor is a confirmed Trumper. To him, climate change does not exist.

He got into it with one of my liberal neighbors, screaming "climate change is a hoax."

(I think he was so loud because deep down inside, he knows it's real and Trump is the antichrist.)

[chowder66]

4. It has been in the mid to high 80's here in Hollywood, CA. I hate it.

I know a lot of people like warm weather. I am not one of them. We haven't really had more than a couple of weeks of cool temps.
It's also been dry as hell. We caught up with rain a few weeks ago but the snow pack is pretty bad in the mountains and the vegetation is drying out.

At night it has been getting down in the 70's but as a warm blooded person that is uncomfortable to me.

We have more 80's in our forecast this week. I'm so over it.

[JI7]

9. Yes. it's cold early morning and at night but it gets warm the rest of the day

Even spring usually isn't this warm.

[chowder66]

11. It's decent in the mornings but it doesn't recover well at night in my neighborhood. It's warmer than any station

I can find on wunderground. I've tested the temp with other thermometers as well.
It's just hot where I am... at night, regularly. The stations around me drop pretty fast around 4:30 to 5:00 pm, down in the 60's while I'm struggling to get out of the high 70's.

It's weird but it must be where I'm situated. Too much concrete and reflective buildings, I guess.

[JI7]

14. I'm closer to the ocean so that always helps

I do think things like a lot of buildings or even just people also makes things warmer. I know usually we would get maybe one or two weeks in January where it gets warm but it's been like this the entire month.

I personally prefer cool dark overcast days. I also don't like warm sunny weather.

[chowder66]

15. I'm envious.

I wish I would have moved to Santa Monica before they messed with rent control. Sigh.

[pfitz59]

5. Ski season in Washington State is a bust.

First heavy rain washed away the snow and caused flooding. Then it snowed, but the washed out roads kept folks off the slopes. Now its raining again, temps in the 50s and snow level too high. Crazy.

[Intractable]

7. Goodyear doesn't make snow tires for stock cars

Great humor - irony in words.

[FakeNoose]

8. Wind patterns and jet streams are changing, but that's nothing new

Remember El Niño and La Niña? We get those fluctuations every 10 years or so, and it explains why some winters have heavy snow, but other years are mostly warm rain. Even the Repukes cannot deny these changing patterns.

Where it comes to "climate change" politics, it's all about who gets to pump more oil out of the ground, and who's allowed to release more pollution into the atmosphere. That's why they deny climate change ... because to them climate change means loss of profits.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Weather Is Not Evidence Of Climate Change

If it were, it would be equally logical to dispute climate change because it was 30° in Dallas & they had ice storms in Georgia.
We are just coming out of a 12 day arctic blast. That isn't evidence against climate change. It's evidence that it is winter.
Proof of climate change exists in the mountain of data of average temperatures at many places in the world.
That plus the laws of photochemistry & thermodynamics have to be obeyed.
But, local weather can never be used as evidence of greater climatic chance.