The alarmism over the coming two-day cold snap has passed the point of ridiculousness.
The official National Weather Service alert shrieks about “unprecedented” cold, with readings supposedly not seen for 20 years!
Wow, temps for one night about -15F!!!
Except we had successive low temps of -12F and -14F here just five years ago. And there’ve been a number of readings as low as -20F over the years.
Can the hysteria, boys.*
*I am a little hard to impress with warnings of dire cold, after the memorable stretch one January in South Dakota years ago, when the mercury did not rise above zero for eight straight days.
Well, you aren’t following the problem, much less understanding their concerns. What they are seriously concerned about, and for good reason, is that the daytime highs are so low.
Why is that a concern? And why would they say it might be record breaking cold? If the record daytime HIGH is -5, so when we see -15 for the high, it’s an epic record breaking number. That the low temp is also record cold, it actually means it’s goddamn fucking cold. It’s not the nightime lows, it’s the daytime record breaking low high temps they are going on about.
No, you never saw anything close to a daytime high of -20 in SD in January before. You are confusing the nightime low with the daytime high temperatures.
For example, if the High is -15 °F, and the historic records are -5 to 59 °F, that means the daytime high is 10 °F, degrees below the record. And in this case
42 °F, degrees below average for the daytime high.
If the nightime low is -23 °F, matching the historic all time low, that makes it even more epic.
According to the official climate records, that never happened.
If you look at the record events, you can see what they are talking about. That is set to show only the record lows, and record low high temps. (you can change it at will)
Also, that is only valid for the next day or so, in regards to this record cold event. Which is caused by global warming.
Yeah, but keep in mind there might be others who want Uncle Cecil to finally publish the Straight Dope on climate change. I can image how many letters he gets on this.
No, I don’t … sorry … the experts and their expensive computers that gave us those numbers would swear on a stack of Bibles their models are no good after 72 hours, maybe 96 if they get lucky. The global warming modeling is a different species.
Here’s the thing about that. warming summers and colder winters is the EXACT FUCKING OPPOSITE of what CO2 forced global warming predicts. So a annual warming, that includes cooling for winters, especially at mid to upper lattitudes in the NH, that is THE OPPOSITE of what the models show. Models based on the GODDAMN THEORY OF CO2 FORCED GLOBAL WARMING.
This point is not subtle, yet the alarmists fuckheads can’t grasp it.
And I’m not talking about the people who post here. I mean the top climate experts who still insist their version of global warming is happening.
They are completely full of shit if they tell you their models have been correct.
In fact, it’ such a huge error, it can’t be just stupidity.
20,000 years ago, Chicago was under 5,000 feet of ice, today it is not. Is it fair to say that the snow won’t even fall there 20,000 years from now? Interesting they sit well above even the worst case sea level rise.
Humans have always adapted, I see no reason we won’t keep adapting. It tickles me how many people burn fossil fuels to make electricity so they can post on the internet. There’s a word I’m looking for that describes that, just can’t put my finger on it right now.
The usual counter to that optimistic bullshit is it will be super expensive to change anything, the ocean rising will be really bad, and the rate of change is too fast, we “evolved” in the current climate (utter bullshit), the oceans will become acidic, destroying sea life and corals, plus a lot more stuff. Some of which is actually true if we see drastic warming.
How bad it would be is still uncertain. And it don’t help that so many people have made all these over the top predictions and tried to scare the shit out of mankind in general.
How fast things will change is also uncertain, as well as what actually will happen.
It’s a main reason I point out the undeniable fact of recent unexpected trends, trends which as we see right now are actually killing people. The cold isn’t just in the US, once again Pakistan and India are seeing record cold.
China and Mongolia have suffered terrific damage from cold just last winter, and then there is that whole Alaska temperatures dropping like a goddamn rock. The Bering sea ice is record high, and it’s been coming early.
This asinine attitude you find of “it’s all settled and anyone who argues is some sort of insane person or a fossil fuel shill” doesn’t make the skeptics look bad. It makes the asshats who say that shit look foolish.
Once again, it’s really fucking complicated, and there is a lot more than the IPCC and the loudmouths of doom discuss at play.
I’m going with a “GMO accident”, some man-made virus escaping laying waste to 99.9% of the population … you’ve seen the movies … some yo-yo throws a petri dish in the wrong garbage can because they’re worried about Climate Change.