Lexicus
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The failure of seasonal rains is not an isolated incident, is my whole point. It's part of a global pattern of redistributed precipitation.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
How do you differentiate between seasonal variation and global warming if you only have 1 year of abnormal weather?
Lexicus
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You have data that can establish what "normal" weather is, you look at how the "abnormal" weather is different from the "normal" weather and draw conclusions accordingly. Scientists are already doing this with many types of weather events, I think droughts aren't one of them yet but certainly scientists have looked at weather like flooding and heat waves and concluded that it was made x times more likely by human-caused warming. Mind you, that's singular weather events, not even entire years of weather.
While I agree, the poster did not mention a global pattern, just an isolated incident for one season.
Lexicus
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Calling it an isolated incident is begging the question.
You can't base it on one comment. If you want to tell us something show us the data on a worldwide scale and the patterns involved. Geeze.
Don't base it on a single post. That's what deniers do. And we know you're not a denier.
Don't base it on a single post. That's what deniers do. And we know you're not a denier.
Meh, I'm looking for a new job, preferably in a warmer country. So screening Italy, Spain, Portugal, France.
And what came online today: Something in northern Italy. Barely 2 degrees warmer than here.
Meh :/
And what came online today: Something in northern Italy. Barely 2 degrees warmer than here.
Meh :/
The weather yesterday evening was absolutely torrential - the sort of rain where you get instantly soaked and somehow even your skin ends up wet. I was out in it for nearly half an hour and when I got back home, I had to wring my jumper out over the bath.
Lexicus
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It snowed today. It's supposed to snow this weekend.
It better stop snowing by Wednesday, because I have to be gone by 6 am to go to another town for my eye surgery. That highway is treacherous when it's snowing.
It better stop snowing by Wednesday, because I have to be gone by 6 am to go to another town for my eye surgery. That highway is treacherous when it's snowing.
The Weather Network didn't lie. I am looking out my living room window at the snow on the rooftops of the rowhouses across the parking lot. One of the maintenance staff was plowing the parking lot earlier.
As my home care nurse said this afternoon, we need the moisture. We just don't need it in the form of snow.
As my home care nurse said this afternoon, we need the moisture. We just don't need it in the form of snow.
Patine
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Is it still snowing down there? It cleared up from on and off since last Saturday (where it came right out of the blue) here in Edmonton yesterday (at least for now - knock on fake wood computer desk).
The Sun is out now, so there's some melting going on. The snow on my balcony is turning to icy slush. When I started typing my previous post there were still a few flakes coming down. They've stopped for now.
I can't even knock on fake wood. My laptop is sitting on a plastic TV table.
Sunny and around 80. Quite delightful.
BirraImperial
Pura Vida!
Maybe I'm overreacting...But of all my years living in this part of the World, It usually starts raining around the beginning of April...But now it's May 5th and while it has rained every couple of days for half an hour or so, I still think that the weather hasn't been the same as before...Maybe it isn't Global Warming, maybe it's something else...Take it with a grain of salt...
No, what you've just stated is more what I want in the argument. Trending and observation over years, not just a claim based on one season.
I don't need to be convinced since I already am. I just want others reading to base their opinion on long term trends since I get so tired of people claiming it was cold this winter so global warning doesn't exist. Anytime some says the reverse, it just emboldens the deniers.
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
Rain, rain, OMG more rain.
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Zkribbler
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What about Greece, Malta, Cyprus?
Rainy morning today and it is a rain that gets the ground wet.
Yes...sorta.
Greece would be nice too, but I see 0 chance of getting paid there.
Malta is too small. I'd be bored.
Cyprus I sometimes look at, irregularly, could be nice too (although also a bit small).
And hey, a nice job offer came online 2 days ago in Barcelona. That'd be awesome
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