Maybe with a little global warming our climate might just resemble what it was during the medieval warm period when vikings farmed greenland and romans grew grapes in their british colonies.
In our area, many of us began to notice that our changing weather patterns seemed to be more like what we remembered an area a couple to several hundred miles north of us - and that was over 25 years ago. Without particularly paying much attention to this, we also concluded that the locations of the ensuing weather patterns, of both disturbance and calm, 7-14 days beyond us were changing too. (What can I say, you tend to pay attention to what's upcoming FAR more than what's passed by.) About the time that a relative of a friend moved 1500 plus miles away, a couple of us started to pay more attention to this "global warming" thing. The friend's relative would call once a week or so and was sure to ask about our weather; based upon what they heard, they were a more accurate predictor of their upcoming local weather conditions than the local news stations. After seeing and reading a number of reports and articles about changing ocean water conditions including temperature, ambient air temperature conditions, ocean current changes, and more from one pole to the other on our coast - we concluded that there were at minimum some correlations between our changing local weather patterns, global warming, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and the more.
What I can conclude is that all but the most ardent deniers are beginning to realize a change in their local weather patterns over the past 5 years or so. For those who are doing some justified grumbling about the mountains of snow and rivers of breaking ice, I will ask you just how and/or where do you think the conditions that created the mess came from? My very old grade school science taught me that precipitation comes from clouds, clouds are created by evaporated water, and that clouds are carried on currents of wind/breeze that are not unlike ocean currents. This is about where my grade school diorama left off and with it my retention span. But somewhere between my early grade school diorama assignment and a junior high school science lab where we studied gasses, it was imparted in me that temperature was critical to the flow of atmospheric wind that transported clouds, the speed at which clouds traveled, the height at which clouds traveled, the shape of the clouds, and precipitation in general. And, that temperature was related to the ozone layer, air borne particulate matter, ground temperature, and ocean temperature with ocean temperature being the most critical. - And this was during the time of ozone thickness and hole period, long before there was a hue and cry about ocean temperature.
If you are feeling that your Midwest spring is different than what seems "normal", then I can only encourage you to do a little research on the historical weather patterns in your area. While researching your historical weather patterns, look to see where your spring time weather used to come from; look for the wind speed and circulation patterns. Then, look to see how these historical patterns have changed over the past few years, or even just for this year. Lastly, search out how, where, and why the wind patterns in your area originate.
If you are tired of reading zealots, spend some hours on Wikipedia.
Search both AGW and its deniers. Read the data and the arguments. Google the deniers to see how they are paid.
Look for a AGW researcher who is a whistle blower. With 10,000 scientists working on AGW, if they were part of some conspiracy working for a world wide government, wouldn't a few of them develop a conscience and blow a whistle?
there's an old saying "if you look for omens in the weather you WILL find them" GW zealots will attribute everything to global warming, even what you had for breakfast. BTW the winter in New England was a doozy too...I'm in Maine but I guess we're used to it
Do you understand that global means the entire globe, not just weather patterns in one area of the globe. Or, perhaps you are stupid.
No, but you are about 2888th anti-science dupe to copy cat post the same weather=climate nonsense fake question here.
Congratulations on your "originality"
"midwest winter" <---> "global warming"
And Deniers act insulted when people point out how stupid they are. Go figure.
I don't get it.
Even if US WEATHER and GLOBAL CLIMATE were the same thing, why would it be manna?
Or is it just a dumb question?
