Frigid Arctic air, winter storms grip much of U.S.

Stay warm everyone.

Typically when cold 'weather' events occur climate change deniers, be they representatives of oil states like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran etc., big oil employees and/or shareholders, or any number of fossilized believers wanting a return to the putative 'great' days of the 1950s try to debunk the reality that the climate is changing.

While a small but vocal minority of people might use the faulty logic of, "it's cold where I am, therefore global warming isn't real," even schoolchildren know that weather isn't climate.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/01/30/this-is-why-global-warming-is-responsible-for-freezing-temperatures-across-the-usa/?sh=47255b01d8cf

The climate may be changing, but human activity isn’t the reason, as this cold snap indicates.

The climate may be changing, but human activity isn’t the reason, as this cold snap indicates.

Uh, no. The cold snap does not indicate one way or another. How could it?

Global Warming eh?

Global warming doesn't mean everywhere warms up all the time every time

Why do people think that?

Here's a little mental quiz: if the whole of the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth goes up 4 degrees temperature, while the whole of the Southern Hemisphere down 2 degrees, is it still global warming?

The answer is yes - because when you add up all of the Earth's hemispheres, the result is a rise of 2 degrees temperature ( +4 -2 = +2). Even if the whole of the Southern Hemisphere actually became colder, the whole of the Northern Hemisphere warmed up more than the Southern Hemisphere cooled down.

Global warming means just that - global, the whole Earth added up together

Some places warm up; some places cool down - not every place warms up

But when ya add them all up together, the warm-ups are more than the cool-downs - ergo Global Warming