Winter.

[CastletonSnob]

It's 65 degrees today. Please tell me I'm not alone.

I think global warming might be real.

[Deleted]

You're not alone.

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

Its 7f where I live.... okay.

[Damsbo]

65 degrees?

Oh my sweet summer child..

[Miow]

It is real. Of course it is.
Every action has a reaction.

That includes our unnatural sources of enegery and resources etc.

[nanook12]

It's 65 degrees today. Please tell me I'm not alone.

I think global warming might be real.

Only 97% of climate scientists world wide agree.

[CastletonSnob]

Any place in the south that gets winter?

[Ahovv]

It's 65 degrees today. Please tell me I'm not alone.

I think global warming might be real.

I always find it amusing when someone uses local weather of any sort as evidence for or against climate change.

[Trassk]

it was like 4 degrees here the other week, and the central heating at work was bust, so everyone was wearing gloves and scarves. This was in the south of the uk btw.

[CastletonSnob]

I guess Texas is the only place that's like this.

[Dystemper]

It's 65 degrees today. Please tell me I'm not alone.

I think global warming might be real.

You failed to mention where you live. That could be a normal temp

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BEcause we needed another global warming thread why?

[Rudkobing]

is Coming.

[Gheld]

Extreme weather events have nothing to do with climate change. Considering the increase in surface heat since the beginning of industrialization coresponds to about a 0.3% increase in thermal energy.

What does a 0.3% powerful storm look like? Nobody knows. There's so much variation in them.

It's easy to derp when you look at things in terms of relative temperature scales (such as degrees F, and Degrees C)

But how much hotter is it at 10C than 5C?

Double? Wrong. Because to figure that out you have to convert to absolute temperature.

So you're going from 278.4K to 283.4K. For an increase of 3.6%.

And while it certainly feels a lot warmer to a human in that scenario in the grand scheme of things it's pretty crazy to look at how razor thin a margin our existence rests on here.

The difference in sensible heat between the freezing temperature of water and the boiling temperature of water is only 36%. To us they seem like two extreme events, but that's only because we're made of water.

So yeah... Warm days happen in the winter, cold days happen in the summer. Both are meteorological phenomenon that are well studied. You didn't just stumble on to some secret arcane knowledge that somehow escaped the view of people who have studied this shit for their entire life.

So I guess that makes humans arrogant bags of water.

[zorkuus]

I always find it amusing when someone uses local weather of any sort as evidence for or against climate change.

We had -30 for a couple of weeks. The ice age is coming!

[CastletonSnob]

But I guess I'm the only one who lives in a place that doesn't get seasons.

[Dystemper]

Only 97% of climate scientists world wide agree.

No not really
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...sus-ian-tuttle

[Trassk]

I guess Texas is the only place that's like this.

Your the southern most american state bordered with mexico close to the equator, of course your warm. Your pretty much in the same region as saudi arabia and egypt in terms of heat levels.

[CastletonSnob]

Your the southern most american state bordered with mexico close to the equator, of course your warm. Your pretty much in the same region as saudi arabia and egypt in terms of heat levels.

It doesn't get that cold in the south, does it?

[Gheld]

But I guess I'm the only one who lives in a place that doesn't get seasons.

Air temperature is a terrible measure of anything at all really.

It has very little thermal capacity. And the temperature of a gas is a very pliable concept. You can increase and decrease the temperature of gases without adding or removing energy (and that can be taken advantage of to move energy in unconventional ways, that's how refrigeration works).

So the atmosphere is this dynamic swirling mass of air, where hot and cold spots are constantly forming simply because of the way it is moving.

[CastletonSnob]

It looks like I'm the only one.