Does harsh winter disprove reality of ‘global warming’?
I think some otherwise intelligent people are seriously asking whether this year’s harsh winter might actually disprove the reality of so-called global warming. I mean, with a foot of snow in Dallas, Texas yesterday and a couple of inches in Atlanta, Georgia, today — doesn’t that sort of weather make you at least a LITTLE bit skeptical about global warming??All right. In the first place, I hate that terminology, “global warming,” and do not know whether a scientist actually came up with it. I suspect it’s more like something a journalist or PR person came up with to “dumb down” the issue. The more correct terminology would be “global climate change.” Such a change in terminology will never come about now. Too many nay-sayers have been feasting on all the silliness surrounding the radical misinformation campaigns making the rounds, so they aren’t about to give up “global warming” as the defining misstatement of the real issues involved.
What we need to understand is this: ALL legitimate, serious science supports the suggestion that human industry, social interaction, etc., is adding huge amounts of “greenhouse gases” to the atmosphere and good old Mother Earth is reacting with huge climate changes. Yes, the general trend seems to be warming, but that doesn’t mean there cannot be cold spells or cold locations.
So go ahead, poke fun at this harsh winter. At least that’s something we can do to soothe our frozen bones a bit, maybe. Stash those bikinis, swap out that new terry romper and don those flannel jammies for a few more months of winter.
But don’t lose sight of the climate change realities we all must face and work to find solutions for!
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if they’re worried about global warming and whether this disproves it, i think this might be more of a “get a good look at it ’cause you’ll never see it again!” xD i’m prolly wrong. xD but it makes sense in a way.