As I like to say, there is a reason why they call it *GLOBAL* warming, and not "my back yard" warming. These slack-jawed buffoons can't track what's happening from one point of space &/or time to the next. As Bob Altmeyer has observed in his book "The Authoritarians," the authoritarian mind-set is predicated around keeping different ideas carefully siloed the one from the other so that they are -- constitutionally, it would seem -- incapable of putting things together. (For the curious, Altemeyer's book may be downloaded here: https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-downloading-authoritarian-nightmare/ )
The whole polar vortex thing is caused by warming ... albeit, in the arctic. Comparatively warm air in the arctic destabilizes the jet stream, which allows an outbreak to pour down into the North American continent. But warm air in the arctic (and I mean, 20 deg C above normal warm air) is still catastrophically cold air for us poor sad shlubs. That being said, I notice the denialists grow rather more quiet on the subject when the air down here is some 20 -- 30 deg F above normal, as it has been for the past 10 days.
True. And try explaining to them the concept that the intensity of storm have increased due to global climate change. [insert sounds of pointy li'l heads exploding here]🤷🏻♂️😳
As I like to say, there is a reason why they call it *GLOBAL* warming, and not "my back yard" warming. These slack-jawed buffoons can't track what's happening from one point of space &/or time to the next. As Bob Altmeyer has observed in his book "The Authoritarians," the authoritarian mind-set is predicated around keeping different ideas carefully siloed the one from the other so that they are -- constitutionally, it would seem -- incapable of putting things together. (For the curious, Altemeyer's book may be downloaded here: https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-downloading-authoritarian-nightmare/ )
The whole polar vortex thing is caused by warming ... albeit, in the arctic. Comparatively warm air in the arctic destabilizes the jet stream, which allows an outbreak to pour down into the North American continent. But warm air in the arctic (and I mean, 20 deg C above normal warm air) is still catastrophically cold air for us poor sad shlubs. That being said, I notice the denialists grow rather more quiet on the subject when the air down here is some 20 -- 30 deg F above normal, as it has been for the past 10 days.
True. And try explaining to them the concept that the intensity of storm have increased due to global climate change. [insert sounds of pointy li'l heads exploding here]🤷🏻♂️😳