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Excellent_Affect4658 t1_j7gritd wrote

Reply to comment by thunder-cricket in Did I hallucinate the arctic temps this past weekend? by [deleted]

The comment I was responding to says, verbatim, “both unseasonably warm and frigid”. It is not. These are not unseasonably frigid temperatures. They are unseasonably warm. The swings are probably more abrupt than they used to be, but that’s not what I was objecting to.

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thunder-cricket t1_j7h2kp5 wrote

OK. In that case, you're taking one portion of one sentence out of it's context to object to it, in an effort to obfuscate the real point and defend your argument: that the weather is normal and not alarming. The problem you say, and i quote verbatim, is "we've all just gone soft."

You're wrong. We haven't "all just gone soft." The weather we're experiencing is not normal and is alarming.

The full sentence is: "Winter weather will be both unseasonably warm and frigid, as opposed to just cold. The time of consistent winter weather has passed."

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Excellent_Affect4658 t1_j7h45ou wrote

The weather is alarming, but not because it's cold, which is what gets all the attention. The cold snap was normal; it's the rest of the winter that people should be alarmed by. I'm not trying to "obfuscate" anything. Asking for precision is not denying climate science.

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thunder-cricket t1_j7h5wm2 wrote

People are alarmed by the whole winter. People's aren't complaining that it was cold over the weekend; people are saying the swings are the alarming thing. That's what this whole post is about, including the person whose comment you're responding to. If you're not trying to obfuscate (it means to make obscure) the point of that comment, which you are now saying you agree with, I'm not sure why you took a few words out of their overall context to object to.

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