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Originally Posted by TommyMacLuckie
Where is the so called global "warming" when it seems we're just getting colder and colder spells like this? Where is this supposed La Nina that gives the SE US a warmer and wetter winter on average?
All worthless myths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, Tommy, I wouldn't go as far as calling it myths. I guess that nobody on the forum is a climatologist with data available for an extensive period of time... etc. You know what I mean. Where's that warming? Mainly in the southern Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere.
The effects visible at your or my latitude don't really reflect global warming per say, but precipitation changes, dry/wet period changing, weather extremes etc - those are what is visible. And considering the amount of precipitation in the southern America and Africa this year, floods in Pakistan and India, 100°F drought in Russian plains lasting for weeks, 2 significant volcano eruptions in the northern and one in the southern hemisphere... this year ought to be extreme.
Even so, climate science doesn't reflect short term extremes, it reflects long term trends in general. And global, because it is measured globally. So if N.America, Europe and Asia get colder, but Africa, South America and Australia get significantly hotter, it still, in general, counts as global warming.
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Originally Posted by rick2001
It's the same here in Rome..... I can't even remember the last time we reached -4° celsius ... especially in December.
Even the Basjoos suffered the last few days' chill.
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For Italy, search the winter records of 1985-1987.
Human memory is prone to subjective errors. Historical records should reflect the real status.