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Originally Posted by filtherton
One season's worth of weather doesn't say anything about global climate change.
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^ My biggest rant against the climate change naysayers. ^
There's a difference between weather and climate. Just because you have snow in Atlanta one day doesn't mean the earth is getting colder. Neither does it disprove that it's getting warmer.
We got over an inch of rain yesterday here in Phoenix - does that mean I no longer live in a desert?
And as far as a few feet of sea level change being insignificant - you might not say that if you lived on an island. Not to mention the effect it would have on ocean currents and global weather patterns.
Oh, and yes,
BG - this
is an El Nino winter. That's why the desert Southwest is enjoying a warm, wet winter. Conversely, 2009 was one of our driest and hottest years. We got only 4" of rain in 2009 (we average 8.4"); so far in just 10 weeks of 2010 we've had 6". I even have mushrooms growing in my back yard. Not exactly desert-like. But that doesn't mean it's time to start planting rice farms.
El Nino is a perfect example of the influence of ocean currents (or their disruption) on our weather patterns