Eheath, can you hire him as NS weather reporter so he doesn't have to work on ships all summer?

freestyler540If you actually look at the time scales, you will quickly notice these global trend happen to occur over thousands, if not millions of years, not decades. There are other signs to notice. The jet stream is moving further away from its normal route in the last 100 years and peaking at latitudes much higher than average trends.

The jet stream is what determines where low pressures will form, move and dissipate. Changes in the course of the jet stream is dictated by polar temperatures and pressures and lower latitude pressure and temperature ( hot air creates high pressure, cold air induces low pressure) and the interaction of the 2 is where the jet stream passes. Other factors such as ocean temperatures, green house gas concentrations and darker particle concentration will influence the path of that atmospheric wind passage.

The average global temperature is rising. Its fact, just have to pour over the data to confirm it. 1 degree doesnt seem like much, but it has a huge influence how much humidity is stored in the atmosphere.

Ok take the 2018 winter. Why was it cooler and more precipitation occured in North America? La Nina pushed the jet stream south, letting the cold arctic air interact with southern coastal humid air, causing cold precipitation. Add to that the massif forest fires, blocking the solar radiation and there... a nice winter. The east had a colder than average winter due to the Chinooks; a southern path the jet stream takes due to lower atmospheric pressures in the south, allowing the cold arctic mass leak south and interacting with the Atlantic humid masses.

Climate change means that regional meteorology patterns will screw off average. For example, the BC interior used to be a rainforest (just notice the old growth forests) 100 years ago. Today, its looking more like a desert. Some area's geology will influence meteorology; think Vancouver. Its impossible to predict how these changes will affect regions, but geology will change due to weather average changes.

No, you just want to agree with someone else with the same opinion. Its called confirmation bias.

THE-Albino*If you follow weather trends in history there are times of extreme drought but usually at the same time a small ice age type weather in some other part of the world. I'm not saying climate change/ global warming are not a real thing that we need to worry about. I'm mainly saying that we have been due for some weather change around the world. After this so called "permanent issue" we will probably have some of the best winters to come. I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned for the time being because we should its a current issue but not permanent. Needless to say i'm pretty fucking scared about some of the winters to come round here in America, there might be a few "big" winters here and there but i"m still concerned.

For the time being we are fucked. As for future generations i'm not so sure.

When saying "best winters to come" and talking about cycles the earth goes through, you're naive to think this won't have devastating impacts. Millions of homes and coastal cities will be flooded and underwater. A new ice age after the subsequent warming will cause catastrophic extinctions of multiple species and probably affect human populations too. They'll probably be the worst winters to come. And of course this is thousands of years from now, but the flooding portion is within the next couple hundred.

The warming of the oceans has already devastated coral reefs and caused significant impacts on ocean life.

my pb an j here. Everyone should be extremely worried about climate change. On a conservative estimate there will be at least 2 billion climate refugees by the year 2050. No matter what human civilization chooses to do at this point the earth will rise an approximate 5c by 2100. Our civilization has a limited future in its current capacity.