The Bad Astronomer: Well, that's only because some people just don't seem to get that global warming does mean catastrophic weather that includes temporary bitter cold in many places not accustomed to it. And we have to keep saying it, because, as we've learned from the deniers, repetition means truth.

I got 3/4 through this 2nd paragraph before I realized it was the same as the first. Can't brain today. Have the dumb.

I'm in Seattle, WA right now way up North and it's 47f.

/warming is real
//air conditioning just kicked on

Wait. Worst winters in 100 years? I'd LOVE to see the data that backs that up.

mediablitz: Wait. Worst winters in 100 years? I'd LOVE to see the data that backs that up.

Silly liberal commie-fag, anecdotes are far more important than data. Data is for socialists and queers.

"He added that while Siberia, the UK and parts of the US were very cold, other areas including Alaska, Canada and the Mediterranean were warmer than usual. But China faces its worst winter in 20 years, with temperatures down to -43C."

Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to read the article and explode it's bullshiat first paragraph.

Going swimming now. 58 degrees here in Oregon. Must be all the worst winter in 100 years bullsh*t.

cryinoutloud: Because people not only can't think in a timespan of more than 30 years or so, they also can't relate to anything that is bigger than their immediate environment. Like, they can't relate, man.

/Watches TV

This week was COLD! That proves GW is bullshiat!

The Bad Astronomer: Well, that's only because some people just don't seem to get...

That's why I've got a problem with your "Pseudo-Rational" thought posts. Consensus.

/bone to pick
//yes I believe in global warming

Hey Subby, did you forget about the worst SUMMER in over 100 years we've had as well? Because, living in Texas, I sure as fark didn't forget 2 1/2 months straight of 115+ degree highs.

I absolutely love the argument "It is cold outside, therefore global warming isn't occurring".

Coming from the people that said "Except for 9/11, Bush kept us safe".

As I understand it, here in North America an unusually big arctic air mass moved south. Presumably areas of the arctic had that air replaced from somewhere warmer and are now warmer than usual.

It's called "weather". Weather is only influenced by climate. Plan for the weather, not the climate, or the day-by-day fluctuations will reliably ruin your plans.

bulldg4life: Coming from the people that said "Except for 9/11, Bush kept us safe".

Oh bull, everyone knows that America was never attacked when Bush was in office!

bulldg4life: I absolutely love the argument "It is cold outside, therefore global warming isn't occurring".

I'll re-quote you around June 2010 when the news focuses around "How Warm" it is.

"This could be Global Warming?" PANIC!

RannyGazoo: I'll re-quote you around June 2010 when the news focuses around "How Warm" it is.

"This could be Global Warming?" PANIC!

Hahaha, totally true.

Went straight for the Fail, eh subby?

You ambitious retard.

As one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is growing warmer

Amazing how the headline resolves the contradiction it plaintatively tries to point out.

I turned the heater way up, so my house is really hot. I have no idea what the weatherman on TV is going on about, it isn't 20 degrees, it is more like 90!

I'm sick of the "Looks like I have to shovel the global warming out of the driveway" headlines. I can't tell if it's the submittards are proving Poe's Law or what because these keep getting green'd.

Lionel Mandrake: If there's a heatwave next summer - just one, anywhere - will you douchebags suddenly be convinced that global warming is a fact?

They didn't this past summer. 115+ degree highs for 3 weeks straight, 100+ degree highs for 3 MONTHS straight here in Austin. We broke records. Like, all of them.

Many people don't get it. They point to the fact that there are unusually cold temperatures in some parts of the country and exclaim, "This is proof that global warming is a myth!"

It's not that simple.

Here in Las Vegas, meteorologists have said that since they started recording temperatures here in the early 1900s, 9 of the 10 warmest years on record by average temperature have occurred since 2000.

Lionel Mandrake: If there's a heatwave next summer - just one, anywhere - will you douchebags suddenly be convinced that global warming is a fact?

Somehow I doubt it.

But, "brrrr, it's sure been cold lately" is enough to "prove" that global warming is a fraud.farking morans....

You're one of the people who don't get it because you look at it too shallow. It has nothing to do with the temperature in any particular city or state, or any region. It has to do with an overall average temperature shift of a degree or two over the entire planet.

That may not sound significant, but it's enough to cause the melting of ice in far north America, which is driving polar bears toward extinction, and it's enough to create more hurricanes in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, which end up hitting the U.S. mainland.

You need to educate yourself, son. You can't dismiss Global Warming altogether simply because there is snow on the ground. That's ignorant.

It's stinking hot here in South Australia, you misbegotten idiot. 41C here today.

I just saw an aeroplane. GRAVITY IS A CONSPIRACY!