(October 26, 2020 at 12:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The insidious thing about deniers, is that they take a cold event blindly as proof that climate change as a lie.
Currently both coasts of America this week are on average way above average, and the middle of the country down to even Oklahoma are freezing.
This extreme difference is not normal. It is akin to being on the line between the dark and light side of the moon. I am over exaggerating yes, but to make a point.
Climate volatility isn't hot vs cold, but the long term upward trend of the average global temperature. Climate change also causes more extreme snow storms and extreme cold, because the ice caps are melting dispersing large volumes of cold air. Humans need to look at it just like leaving their fridge freezer open. It will dump out cold air for a while, but the longer you leave it open, the more damage you cause to the freezer to relegate the temperature.
I don't miss winter, I hate cold weather. But that is completely separate from wanting a livable planet.
Yes, there is snow on the radar in OK right now and some slackjaw will say "warming my ass." Like the idiot who carried a snowball to the Senate floor. There's no point explaining the difference in weather and climate to such a person because if they wanted to understand and could, they would. For most climate change is an observation and explanation using science. For trumpkins and the like, it's a political opinion. They couldn't possibly agree with something Al Gore said.
I like winter. I want the ground to freeze and stay frozen for a while. I want the creeks to rise from the melt. On a river run last April, I got sunburn on the first day. On the 2nd day, I pulled the canoe over at a stream to hike to a waterfall. I was met at the mouth of it by 2 angry water moccasin. One bowed up and hissed while the other slithered away. If it had been late May, I would have had a staff with me. As it was, I went back to the boat. I had never gotten a sunburn or seen such active, angry snakes in April. Many people had similar encounters. Snake experts blamed the warm winter, saying the snakes were hungry because they became active before food was available.
Climate denial, conspiratorial thinking, and gun worship all result from the radical right's inability to admit they've been wrong about some things. Once people deny the obvious, they allow themselves to believe all manner of nonsense to preserve the pet belief.
