Met Office: Hottest February on Record

[OwlHoot]

That an increase in energy in the global system causes more extreme weather - both hot and cold - is also a concept they find terribly difficult to grasp.

That and the fact that melting ice caps tend to spread cold damp weather further from the poles, just as a defrosting open fridge feels colder to be near than normal

[jamesbrown]

That an increase in energy in the global system causes more extreme weather - both hot and cold - is also a concept they find terribly difficult to grasp.

It's a strange affliction. I assume they're not really that thick and are mostly just being disingenuous because they're heavily invested in oil stocks or something. "Oooo, but, but, but, look.....weather!"

[BlasterBates]

It's a strange affliction. I assume they're not really that thick and are mostly just being disingenuous because they're heavily invested in oil stocks or something. "Oooo, but, but, but, look.....weather!"

Indeed the effects of weather can be quite dramatic.

Weather causing a glacier to grow in Greenland

[jamesbrown]

Moth to a flame

[Andy2]

climate change is causing polar vortex to move south that's why there is record snow in US and europe.
Now if atlantic gulf stream stops due to melting of ice caps we will be f3cked. Western Europe will be plunged into a deep freeze.

[BlasterBates]

climate change is causing polar vortex to move south that's why there is record snow in US and europe.
Now if atlantic gulf stream stops due to melting of ice caps we will be f3cked. Western Europe will be plunged into a deep freeze.

Although there are fewer polar vortex events than there were in the past.



I'm sure they'll figure out a new theory though.

[d000hg]

It will make it colder, warmer or the same. Based on that argument, you cannot deny it is here already.

But how do we know it's the same due to GW, or some other reason?

[_V_]

But how do we know it's the same due to GW, or some other reason?

Does it support the narrative? It's Climate Change.
Does it go against the narrative? It's Weather you moron!



Just kidding folks. De-carbonise!

I'm cleaning the oven later. Doing my bit.

[NotAllThere]

When they convinced the public that "global warming" could make it colder, they realised they can sell any old guff and people will swallow it.

Oh dear. Another one. The average/mean temperature of the Earth rises, but the extremes of weather also become more likely. You're confusing the average with the extremes. Sorry to burst your bubble but it doesn't mean milder winters and warmer summers. The term "warming" is more accurately "an increase in energy in the system". Now these may look like scoots stockmarket graphs, but they do represent the actual temperature data.





Considering a 10 year rolling average, the climate is definitely warmer now, globally, than it has been in the last 2000 years. Therefore, it's a no brainer there's more energy in the system, and complicated mathematics demonstrates that leads to greater weather extremes. Colder, hotter, stronger winds, wetter, dryer...

Whether it is manmade is less sure than the fact that it is happening.

It's a strange affliction. I assume they're not really that thick and are mostly just being disingenuous because they're heavily invested in oil stocks or something. "Oooo, but, but, but, look.....weather!"

I think they really are that thick and fundamentally incapable of understanding the difference between climate and weather. Either that or tinfoil hats disrupt cognitive processes.

[Paddy]

Oh, not the hockey-stick again