Global warming is real

• Compass wrote on 2014-12-01 16:02
  It's 61 degrees in the start of December.
• Brynn wrote on 2014-12-01 16:10
  it's pretty warm over here in NJ as well. But it snowed really early too, we had snow a day before Thanksgiving... The weather is really bipolar this year :(
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-12-01 17:00
  I would say Climate Change more than Global Warming as it entails more than places just warming it up, it also makes other places colder as it's a bit more complicated how increases in temperatures impacts weather from shifting polar vortexes to bigger storms.
• Kyishi wrote on 2014-12-01 18:07
  sounds like cali every year
• Compass wrote on 2014-12-01 18:37
  Man, I just had to install my AC again because my room is incredibly hot.
  For the non-Northeasterners this is how Boston looks around this time
  
  

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  People right now walking outside with just their shirts on.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-12-01 18:42
  That's nothing Compass, you should see Buffalo, New York. 6 feet of snow got dumped on them from Lake Effect Snow from Lake Erie two weeks ago >.>
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-12-01 21:56
  Climate change is the better term. Also I read something a while back saying all the planets in the solar system are undergoing climate changes, not just the earth. So it's likely some solar event that's at least partially the cause.
  
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• GODZILLA wrote on 2014-12-01 22:08

  Quote from Osayidan;1255879:

  Climate change is the better term. Also I read something a while back saying all the planets in the solar system are undergoing climate changes, not just the earth. So it's likely some solar event that's at least partially the cause.
  
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  The sun is becoming a teenager and lashing out at the planets for reasons we'll never understand.
• Odin wrote on 2014-12-01 22:10

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1255870:

  That's nothing Compass, you should see Buffalo, New York. 6 feet of snow got dumped on them from Lake Effect Snow from Lake Erie two weeks ago >.>

  
  
  I was there on Saturday.
  
  The snow is gone.
  
  Completely gone. Except for the usual enormous piles on the edges of large parking lots that even in more modest climates are known to last well into April before completely melting down.
  
  My uncle says that everyone put everything they had into digging it out, and it took around 3 days but they got it done.
  
  Then it started to rain, and by morning the snow was gone.
  
  
  My own take on this whole global warming and global climate change thing is not that it is trending higher or lower in any major amount, but more an issue of earth is an abnormality to begin with.
  
  Let me put it this way. Most other planets go from extremely hot to extremely cold and back in mere hours, the moon's surface for instance this transition is literally night and day. Earth is something of an abnormal planet to begin with in that it happens to have the right surface conditions to have a very narrow temperature range and a gradual change from hot to cold.
  
  We're losing our thermal stability- it is changing from hot to cold and back much faster. That leads to more intense storms, much less comfort for us, and long term possibly serious ecosystem damage as current plant and animal species are not really designed to go from -20F to 90F in the span of a couple of days.
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-12-01 22:12
  I don't think we consistently and exhaustively monitor the surface temperature of all the planets in the solar system. I avhe a feeling someone pulled that out of their arse.
  
  
  And I guessed right, basically. A one-seventh-truth picked with full intend to misinform the public and perhaps oneself, as it seems.