Several inches of Global Warming blanket Minnesota.

[Hawkeye]

One month before the official start of summer, and it's still snowing in the continental United States.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...esota/70008224

Through Thursday morning, Duluth was blanketed with 10.9 inches of snow, leading to a number of broken snowfall records, according to data from the National Weather Service.

The 10.9 inches set the all-time record for most snow on a single day in the month of May. The previous record was 5.5 inches, set on May 10, 1902. The burst of May snow also shattered the record for the snowiest month of May ever in Duluth, eclipsing the previous record of 8.1 total inches of snow set in May of 1954. It was also the snowiest May 8 in Duluth history as the more than 10 inches of snow doubled the previous record for the day set way back in 1924. Record-keeping began in 1884.

[PR_Glen]

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that weather and climate are not the same thing at this point.

right?

[Bladewire]

Oh look at the retard that sings climate change means it never snows. Fucking idiot

[OneHungLo]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that weather and climate are not the same thing at this point.

right?

But you don't post that when someone's on here crying about seasonably warm day in the winter.

[Bosa]

Climate Change Threatens National Security Says Pentagon

https://unfccc.int/news/climate-chan...-says-pentagon

UPDATE: Chronology of U.S. Military Statements and Actions on Climate Change and Security: 2017-2019

https://climateandsecurity.org/2019/...ity-2017-2019/

Climate Change Is a Threat to Military Security

https://www.cfr.org/blog/climate-cha...itary-security

Pentagon: Climate change threatens military installations

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...limate-1098095

When people talk about global climate right now, they often use two terms: global warming and climate change. So, what gives? Is our climate getting warmer, or is it just changing?

Unfortunately, both are true. But global warming and climate change aren’t just two ways of saying the same thing.

Global warming describes the rise in temperatures across the globe, while climate change accounts for a host of other transformations going on at the same time–largely, but not entirely, as a result of warmer temperatures. It may seem simple, but the use of the two terms has inspired some confusion and even psychological research into the public’s perception of each one. From skeptics accusing activists of “switching terms” to scientists studying people’s responses to one term against the other, the choice between using global warming and climate change matters.

Starting With Definitions: Global Warming vs. Climate Change
Pollution
Global warming describes “a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere.” If you want, you can boil that down to its simplest terms: it is getting hotter. But be careful not to oversimplify; the quoted definition brings up a couple of important caveats.

For one, global temperature increases are extremely gradual. In fact, they have risen by just under 2oF since “pre-industrial times” (the late 1800s).

Second, global warming describes earth’s overall temperature. It doesn’t describe what’s happening in any given place.

Global warming doesn’t guarantee this summer will be hotter than the last. In some places, it will be cooler.

But globally, it is getting hotter. In 2015, the UN reported that 14 of the 15 hottest years on record (dating back to 1850) had all occurred since 2000. Since then, 2015, 2016, and 2017 all exceeded prior marks, becoming the three hottest years recorded. In case you’re wondering, 2018 is likely to become the fourth hottest on record.

That 2oF rise we’re seeing makes a big difference. Seemingly small temperature swings drastically alter the climate. For example, the temperature during the last ice age was only about 10oF colder than today, and that was enough to bury much of America, Asia, and Europe under glaciers.

The term climate change includes rising temperatures, but it also goes beyond temperature, addressing a broader shift in climate. As temperatures rise, other patterns come up, including more severe storms, sea level rise, and changes to plant life. These problems are likely to bring billions of dollars in damage, displace millions of people from their homes, and threaten food supply in parts of the world.

Global warming is generally thought of as a cause of climate change, but it’s not the only cause. Some aspects of our changing climate don’t come from temperature increases. For instance, fossil fuel emissions also create acid rain, which hurts plant life. This actually feeds back into global warming (through higher carbon dioxide levels), but starts with emissions.

And to bring back a point I made earlier, some aspects of climate change involve low temperatures and intense snow storms. Parts of upstate New York, for example, have seen some of the most severe winters in history recently. These trends don’t conflict with the idea of global warming at all; in fact, higher global temperatures actually help bring about more precipitation, including snow, in many places. Still, it can feel strange to say that global warming is responsible for more snow. In these cases, people often like to to use climate change instead.

Mythbusting: Did People Switch From Using Global Warming to Climate Change?
Plenty of climate change skeptics, including influential people, have accused scientists of switching from talking about global warming to talking about climate change. They suggest that this boosts scientists’ odds of being proven correct; that is, it isn’t clear which way the climate is moving, so if they use “climate change,” they’ll be right regardless of the direction.

This is a myth–for a couple reasons:

Global warming is happening. Global temperatures are rising, so there is no need to switch for the sake of accuracy. If anything, as discussed, switching would only be useful for the sake of thoroughness in discussing changes to our climate.
There has been no such switch. In fact, scientists were actually using climate change before global warming, and continue to use it more commonly today.

Analyzing Google search results shows that the American public used to look for global warming information more than climate change, but that trend has leveled out. Meanwhile, researchers writing about climate were actually using the term climate change earlier and, almost always, more often than global warming.

Don’t Be Fooled
Global warming and climate change both describe critical, real trends happening today. Don’t be fooled by those who don’t know the difference–and if you can, help them out by explaining that global warming causes larger climate changes.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

One month before the official start of summer, and it's still snowing in the continental United States.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...esota/70008224

Through Thursday morning, Duluth was blanketed with 10.9 inches of snow, leading to a number of broken snowfall records, according to data from the National Weather Service.

The 10.9 inches set the all-time record for most snow on a single day in the month of May. The previous record was 5.5 inches, set on May 10, 1902. The burst of May snow also shattered the record for the snowiest month of May ever in Duluth, eclipsing the previous record of 8.1 total inches of snow set in May of 1954. It was also the snowiest May 8 in Duluth history as the more than 10 inches of snow doubled the previous record for the day set way back in 1924. Record-keeping began in 1884.

idiot.....

[beerptrol]

OP is a fool who doesn't know the difference. Typical chumpanzee!

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

I'm pretty sure everyone knows that weather and climate are not the same thing at this point.

right?

Every time there's a heatwave, or a wildfire, or a hurricane, the alarmists tell us that it's proof of global warming.

Like these "scientists":

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/2...records-broken

Yet when there's snowfall this late into Spring, suddenly they don't want to talk about the weather any more.

Funny how that works.

[Bladewire]

The same idiots that think Trump is a successful businessman think climate change doesn't exist. No surprise

[RedFred]

Dumbass thinks .0001% of the planet = the whole planet.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

One month before the official start of summer, and it's still snowing in the continental United States.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weath...esota/70008224

Through Thursday morning, Duluth was blanketed with 10.9 inches of snow, leading to a number of broken snowfall records, according to data from the National Weather Service.

The 10.9 inches set the all-time record for most snow on a single day in the month of May. The previous record was 5.5 inches, set on May 10, 1902. The burst of May snow also shattered the record for the snowiest month of May ever in Duluth, eclipsing the previous record of 8.1 total inches of snow set in May of 1954. It was also the snowiest May 8 in Duluth history as the more than 10 inches of snow doubled the previous record for the day set way back in 1924. Record-keeping began in 1884.

Donald Trump is proud of you and the Stupid he perpetuates.

[Bosa]

With a seeming rise in the occurrence of snow days, blizzards and icy travel, the common belief that climate change isn’t happening comes as no surprise.

However, the United States makes up only about 2 percent of the entire Earth’s surface area.

Scientists stress that locally wintry weather conditions are not indicators of changes in climate, and weather conditions in one part of the world are not representative of what’s occurring globally.

“It’s like saying, 'if everyone around me is wealthy, then poverty is not a problem,'” Peter Frumhoff, the Union of Concerned Scientists science and policy director and chief climate scientist, told CNN.

Scientists point to hard data, including temperature measurements on land and water taken over several decades, which points to an upwards trend in global temperatures, otherwise known as global warming.

“We know that right now, we’ve had three years – 2016, 2015 and 2014 – which were the hottest on record since 1880,” said Brenda Ekwurzel, climate science director and senior climate scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

NASA reported that 16 of the 17 warmest years on record all happened since 2001.

“Global warming is definitely happening,” Ekwurzel added.

Extreme winter weather and climate change

A popular question seems to be that if global warming is occurring, why do winters seem unusually harsh?

Understanding the distinct difference between weather and climate helps to answer that question.

"Weather refers to the conditions in the atmosphere over a short period of time, whereas climate refers to trends in atmospheric patterns over a much longer timescale," said Dr. John Fleming, a climate scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity.

“This is well expressed as an analogy: weather is like your mood, whereas climate is like your personality,” he said.

“This is why it is possible to have unusually cold weather across much of the U.S. [during] winter, while observing that globally, surface temperatures have been steadily rising,” he added.

Much of the continental United States may be unusually cold during winter, but temperatures for most of the rest of the world are well above average


Despite the fact that the Earth is becoming steadily warmer, frigid conditions continue to occur during winter at higher elevations or throughout the year in higher altitudes.

Factors that play a role in both regional and global weather conditions include ocean pattern, upper winds, the extent of Arctic sea ice melting, seasons and the shifting shape of the jet stream, which is an atmospheric highway located at the level at which jets cruise.

Research has shown that these factors can actually contribute to an increase in extreme weather conditions, including more intense heat waves, heavier precipitation and increasing snowfall.

“Some research suggests that a warming Arctic is producing a weaker, less stable jet stream that allows frigid Arctic air to dip south,” said Fleming.

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Ice cover in the Arctic appears to be shrinking faster, compared with the previous 1,500-year period, according to the 2017 Arctic Report Card.

“It indicates how the effects of warmer global temperatures can reverberate through our climate system and across the globe,” he added.

A series of publications have concluded that a cold wave during winter that could have crossed the U.S in about five days can now last 14 days, according to Ekwurzel.

“It’s slow, and if you’re sitting there with cold, Arctic air blasting down the continental U.S. for 14 days, you can imagine the extreme cold temperatures we could reach,” she said.

“We’d freeze the Great Lakes, icing forms, you’re freezing citrus crops; it’s really disastrous,” she added.

Climate change is most rapidly occurring in the far northern latitudes, according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson.

"Despite the potential increase in extremes, average winter temperatures are still expected to continue to trend warmer over the next several decades across the majority of the Northern Hemisphere," Anderson said.

[amvcdotcom]

you had me at 10.9 inches.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by amvcdotcom

you had me at 10.9 inches.

[Busty2]

Just when you think that people on GFY cannot get any more ignorant you see a post like this

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

The same idiots that think Trump is a successful businessman think climate change doesn't exist. No surprise

They're pretty much wrong about everything all of the time.

[Diomed]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Every time there's a heatwave, or a wildfire, or a hurricane, the alarmists tell us that it's proof of global warming.

Like these "scientists":

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/2...records-broken

Yet when there's snowfall this late into Spring, suddenly they don't want to talk about the weather any more.

Funny how that works.

This is true.

[Rochard]

It's going to be 85 degrees here....

[TheSquealer]

Polar ice caps have been growing for years and temperatures have not been rising either... but that's none of my business....