All this cold weather out west proves their is no such thing as global warming? That is what my sis

patricia92243

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:30 PM
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All this cold weather out west proves their is no such thing as global warming? That is what my sis

sister says.

Of course, I know she is wrong, but I need a two sentence reply to give her. There is no way she will read any kind of article about the environment, and if I can't say what I have to say in one or two sentences, I'll not be able to make her listen.

Any suggestions?

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:33 PM
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1. Global warming messes up weather patterns

Look for more strange weather to come.

Maybe that will help?

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Lautremont

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:34 PM
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2. And when the temperature rises will she concede that it does in fact

exist? Just tell her that a few days or weeks of weather of any kind proves nothing either way.

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bluerum

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:34 PM
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3. The weather out west is typical. Lots of snow but typical. The weather across

much of the eastern US and in some other parts of the world is unusually warm for this time for year. Has been all winter. Plant and wildlife cycles have advanced considerably.

But, if she won't educate herself and won't believe her own eyes, what can you hope to do in two sentences?

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screembloodymurder

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:43 PM
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10. On the whole, temperatures out west are normal to slightly above normal.

Temperatures in the east are way above normal. But when we talk about global warming, we're talking long term averages. The last 25 year period was the warmest 25 year period in the last 1000 years and beyond that we have no reliable records. Show her a graph.

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XemaSab

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Sun Jan-21-07 12:06 AM
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17. It's not typical in California

It's January; it should be raining and in the 40's-50's, not dry and in the 30's statewide. :scared:

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Sanity Claws

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:34 PM
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4. Climate change occurs unevenly

The point is that overall the earth is warmer (I don't have the sites available but you can google them) and glaciers are melting, causing islands to sink into the water (google for examples). The winter out west is just an example of how screwed up water currents and other things affecting weather have become.

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Blue_In_AK

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:36 PM
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5. Actually, from the climate models

Edited on Sat Jan-20-07 04:38 PM by Blue_In_AK

global warming will ultimately lead to a very severe cold snap especially felt in the northeast and Europe. As more fresh water is released into the ocean from the melting ice caps, the ocean currents will slow down to the point where warm air will not rise to the surface as it does now warming the ambient air.

Perhaps your sister would be more comfortable with the term "climate change," because it's coming, you can count on it.

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anitar1

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:37 PM
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6. Just don't bite on her statements. she is playing with you.

Those folks are sick, imho.They want to fight and argue with anyone who will engage.From past experience, i've found the best thing to do is ignore and slack off on corresponding with them. It works.

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tuvor

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:38 PM
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7. First sentence: Overall world temperature is on the rise.

Second sentence: Get your head out of the sand, dear sister.

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lakeguy

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:40 PM
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8. don't let that tree in the forest hit her in the head

as she runs around with her eyes closed and her brain turned off. i just look at people like the idiots they are when they say that. the temps are going up, and this is being caused by CO2 input to the atmosphere by us. there are approx. 1000 or so peer-reviewed science articles that prove this and NONE, 0.00000000, that disprove it.

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jpak

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:41 PM
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9. The West has been snowy but not abnormally cold

Edited on Sat Jan-20-07 04:42 PM by jpak

If you look at the data, the West throughout December and most of January have been above normal...

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/mtd.accum.temps.txt

Scroll way down to the end of the table for Dec 2006 and Jan 2007.

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Cha

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Sat Jan-20-07 04:57 PM
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11. Tell her to see

"An Inconvenient Truth" and get back to you. Al Gore has it wired..I don't care what the fascist-wing dipshits say.

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tabatha

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Sat Jan-20-07 05:00 PM
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12. Tell her to watch this:

http://tinyurl.com/yre8wu

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Elwood P Dowd

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Sat Jan-20-07 05:04 PM
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13. It's call "GLOBAL WARMING"

Not California Warming. Only simple minded fools use arguments like hers.

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kestrel91316

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Sat Jan-20-07 09:43 PM
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14. Global warming >>>>> climate destabilization, worse extremes

of weather (hotter hots, colder colds, dryer longer droughts, harder rains with worse floods). IOW, weather records falling like dominos. Weather models are not holding true anymore, so forecasts beyond a week seem to be much less reliable.

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Delphinus

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Sat Jan-20-07 10:05 PM
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15. People need to dump the phrase,

"Global Warming". The truth of the matter is "Global Climate Change". That's for starters.

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Porcupine

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Sat Jan-20-07 11:50 PM
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16. WTF!?! It's an "El Nino" year.....

So right now the jet stream should be locked into a pattern where it swings down south of Hawaii and up across California and Oregon bringing storm after storm. Warm rain and lots of it is the pattern for California in an "El Nino" ocean cycle.

Instead we are getting the jet stream looping over Alaska and bypassing us entirely. No rain, no snow. Cold enough to put ice over the swimming pools in Santa Rosa which is unheard of.

Anyway it's CLIMATE CHANGE if she bothered to check out the science.

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