Curious Aardvark wrote on Mar 26
th, 2019 at 10:55am:
or they'll get consistently worse and you'll get really profficient at making igloos
Kind of the problem with global warming - it doesn't make everywhere hotter
(after all, it's about 2 degrees c every 20 years or so), it's main effect is to cause weather patterns to change.
At the moment the uk is heating up, but if polar melt water causes the north atlantic conveyor to shutdown (as geologic records record it does fairly regularly
(on a geologic timescale) then the uk's average temperature will drop by at least 10c - which is pretty serious.
It's only simplistic idiots that look solely at the 'warming' and think: 'why arn't I sunbathing in winter in helsinki, if stuff's warming up ?'
I know global warming is fake because Rush Limbaugh says so.
Seriously, when I was a child here in New Jersey we had sufficient ice on the lakes for ice skating and snow for sledding through almost the entire Winter. There was even a ski resort, Ski Mountain, in my hometown of Pine Hill. It was successful for a number of years but eventually had to close down because it stopped snowing enough. This year the lakes never froze enough for one day of ice skating. We got some snow but it all melted almost as soon as it fell. Such Winters are now the norm. In one human lifetime I've witnessed a climate change that should have taken thousands if not tens of thousands of years. Almost all Climatologists agree that we have a huge problem yet there is an army of ******** ******** who refuse to believe the overwhelming evidence before their eyes. My Grandmom used to say, "It's good we don't live forever, Gary. There are things I don't want to see."
Edit: I truly believe that if there are future generations we will be universally hated. We have the knowledge of the impending disaster and the means to fix it but due to our general greed and ignorance we're allowing it to happen.