DomKen
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Joined: 7/4/2004 From: Chicago, IL Status: offline
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On the topic of worst winter.. gotta love that global warming, eh? Guess at the very least we should count it an asset that it lowers gun violence, eh? Great pickup. Great. Maybe one day the two of you will understand the idea that climate and weather are not the same thing. If you're actually interested, climate change is the cause of this exceptionally bad winter. The arctic cyclone destabilized and pushed polar air masses into the central US over and over again. Alaska and Europe actually had very mild winters in comparison. It may turn out that overall this was the warmest winter in the northern hemisphere ever. Yeah. It might. Except it wasn't. From NOAA (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/02/) Northern Hemisphere, land: 53rth warmest winter, ever. Damn those inconvenient facts. damn your lies. No where on that page does it say that. No where. You just made it up. What it does say is this. quote:
The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the December–February period was 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 12.1°C (53.8°F), making it the eighth warmest such period on record. and this quote:
The Northern Hemisphere had its eighth warmest winter And I'll have to acknowledge that the data had been updated since I last checked and the mean had come down some. but 53rd? Bullshit. quote:
Besides, let me get this straight. You're arguing that the cold weather is responsible for our levels of gun violence. So if it was the warmest winter ever (snicker) wouldn't that mean gun violence increased? Except of course, it didn't. In Chicago? You bet your ass the weather co-relates with gun violence. We have less when it is really cold and we have more when it is really hot. Anybody with even a tiny bit of sense knows why.
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