Local weather patterns are bound to change. Winter is most noticable when you don't get as much snow or you get storm after storm piling on the snow.
The past 10 years we've had mild Winters.
When it should be 40 F outside in December, I've noticed more days that hit 70 F than it normally would. It's gone from 1 day in winter than might be warm to an entire week or two.
But still we can't go by what our local weather is doing. We have to look at the earth as a whole and monitor CO2 levels. We know that CO2 has a blanket like warming effect. A certain amount of heat comes from the sun and normally a certain amount is reflected back out keeping a steady balance. But when you add in the blanket effect from CO2, more heat is trapped in the atmosphere.
That small amount means that a little more ice is melted each day that normally wouldn't be. Over the course of years this means that glacier melt is significantly more. Evaporation of lakes and streams are more widely felt. More energy in the air means bigger storms.
The past 10 years we've had mild Winters.
When it should be 40 F outside in December, I've noticed more days that hit 70 F than it normally would. It's gone from 1 day in winter than might be warm to an entire week or two.
But still we can't go by what our local weather is doing. We have to look at the earth as a whole and monitor CO2 levels. We know that CO2 has a blanket like warming effect. A certain amount of heat comes from the sun and normally a certain amount is reflected back out keeping a steady balance. But when you add in the blanket effect from CO2, more heat is trapped in the atmosphere.
That small amount means that a little more ice is melted each day that normally wouldn't be. Over the course of years this means that glacier melt is significantly more. Evaporation of lakes and streams are more widely felt. More energy in the air means bigger storms.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
