hatman | (no subject)

It's winter. It'll be winter for another month. It hasn't snowed in weeks (in fact, we even had a good-sized rainstorm last week), but our back yard tonight looks like this:

Snow everywhere. The snow bank in our driveway, like many of the snow banks around town, is still over 4 feet tall. Highs this weekend are in the low 40s.

None of this is surprising.

What is surprising?

It was 70^o outside today. 70. (That's 21, for those of you counting in degrees Celsius.)

My first reaction was, "WIF, Earth?"

Then I remembered. Of course the climate is screwed up. We messed it up ourselves.

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HUH.

I'm not even sure that's a screwed up climate thing. I'm under the impression that the screwed up climate implies long-term changes (as opposed to rapid changes in weather). I could be wrong, though.

It may not be from that. You're right that climate change is more about long-term changes. However, it's also about a tendency towards more extreme weather (like the increase in winter storms this year) and perhaps a greater frequency of freak events like this.