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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j2ccoeb wrote

Reply to comment by imouttahereta in It is 65 degrees by MaryOutside

Both unseasonably warm weather and bomb cyclones can be caused by climate change.

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Antique-Low3985 t1_j2dw37l wrote

I guess there was never unreasonably warm weather before.

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Huh, well would you look at that, in the 80s and 50s, there were temperatures in the high 60s and 70s: https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/pittsburgh/month-december/highest-temperatures

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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j2ev34w wrote

Interesting data! It makes you wonder if the frequency of hot December days has changed over time. Let's get more data!

We'd need to include temperatures from a longer time period - well before 1926 - to see if these temperatures are actually unusual and look for a trend. And to make our conclusions stronger, we should expand our scope to include average temperatures from all over the world, not just Pittsburgh. When you do that, you get something like this.

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Antique-Low3985 t1_j2evi1i wrote

Really interesting point. So in contrast to the usual talking points that “it’s not just the climate getting warmer, it’s the fluctuations!” You’re saying it’s exclusively about the climate getting warmer?

It seems like your programming is outdated. It’s called “climate change”, not “global warming”, boomer.

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imouttahereta t1_j2cdgf9 wrote

It seems true that the incidence of unusual weather events is increasing, but panicking over individual sudden changes in temperature, warmer/colder than normal temperature, unusual level of precipitation etc. is the modern equivalent of doomsayers predicting the apocalypse.

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enemy_of_your_enema t1_j2cdou5 wrote

Nobody is panicking. And this isn't the first bomb cylcone/polar vortex or unseasonably warm weather in recent memory.

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dingurth1 t1_j2cpm9n wrote

its pretty easy to link all of that to the weakening of the jet stream, which yes is climate change, and could lead to devastating consequences like the collapse of the ocean circulatory system, unpredictable weather events destroying crops, and more high impact weather in general

The dominos are starting to fall bro and its not so hard to put one and one together

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DexterPepper t1_j2d6msf wrote

This person really just said "Too warm for end of December. This shit sucks" about something you concede IS an increasing problem and you're still ready to call the whole thing apocalyptic climate panic. Yikes.

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