'Member that climate warming thingy that was going to kill us with hot temps?

How dare you!

Are they sure its not Sarin?

Those traffic circles of death are no joke.

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Those traffic circles of death are no joke.

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I bet watching these guys drive in them with snow on the road is a hoot

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How long before Waterworld?

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I hope my feet web before it happens

Global cooling is real

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Global cooling

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That's so 1976

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Snow Falls in Baghdad for First Time Since 2008

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Proving their point = CLIMATE CRISIS~~~~~!!!

Didn't Iran have a really bad blizzard back a few decades ago that killed thousands?

I seem to remember that in my lifetime, in my younger days. May have been back in the 70s or 80s. I'll double check unless I just dreamed that for some reason.

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ETA: Yep, I knew I remembered something along those lines. I can remember stuff from forty years ago but can't remember if I ate breakfast or took my medicine. Damn.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29930/40-years-ago-iran-was-hit-deadliest-blizzard-history

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Forty years ago this week (article was written 7 February 2012), the deadliest blizzard on record ripped through the lower Caucasus and into Iran, where it left 4,000 people dead. The Blizzard of 1972, as this hellish storm has come to be known, wasn’t your run of the mill squall; it wiped entire villages—200 villages, to be exact—off the map.

Coming on the heels of a series of storms in late January, the blizzard of 1972 traveled through western Iran and into Azerbaijan from about February 3 to February 8, dropping up to 26 feet of snow—that’s a two and half story building worth of snowfall—and snapping telephone lines, burying commuter trains, entombing villages, and crushing cars in its wake.

At the height of this blizzard, authorities estimated that a region about the size of Wisconsin, spanning most of western Iran, was entirely buried for more than a week. Those few who survived the -13 degree Fahrenheit temperatures were without water, food, heat and medical aid for days on end at a time when—just in case these poor people didn’t have enough to deal with—a deadly flu virus was also moving through rural Iran.

On February 9, 1972, after nearly a week of constant snowfall, the blizzard broke for a brief, but merciful, 24-hour period, allowing Iranian rescue workers to be transported by helicopter out to what looked essentially like enormous snow drifts—white expanses where villages used to be.

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Here is a post I submitted on the OT Lounge side of things yesterday...I think it works well here too:

But the issue here is that these anecdotal stories of these weather phenomenon are all over the map in history because they are all random and all random because these are all random weather pattern changes. These changes are ageless and they ebb and flow as they always have.

People see what they want to see in weather patterns as well and if they happen to cobble a few years together in their mind where the same thing was more prevalent than usual in their thinking then sure enough, they let it grow in their head that this is some indication of global warming...oh wait, the term now is climate change. Want to know why? Because the fear monger political activists can't get their shite together to keep their narrative straight when the next shift in information happens.

Bottom line, weather comes and goes...it changes. Just a couple of years ago we were hearing chicken littles all frantic about drought conditions. I know here in Alabama we heard about how epic the drought was day in and day out and OMG, it's global warming, or climate change(again folks, if you want to buy into something at least figure out the terminology and baseline concept you are buying into)non-sense, blah blah blah...

I COULD bring out terms like North Atlantic Oscillation, Arctic Oscillation, El Nino, La Nina, High Pressure Ridging, Low Pressure Systems, The Jet Stream, etc...all these things play roles in our weather and are much more real in how the weather is formulated than this smoke in mirrors, phony baloney, scare tactic climate change shite.

Let me help you out here...this is an interesting read on the NAO(North Atlantic Oscillation) and how it drives weather patterns and such, temps, etc...notice a sustained NAO usually is more conducive to colder weather here during the winter(milder in the west USA and vice versa when the NAO flips to positive which we have had most this year). If you look at the dateline bar graph, it ebbs and flows over time with no real rhyme or reason...

LINK

So in that folks have short memories and see what they want to see, this gets lost in the shuffle but there's no real pattern on real things like this that shows absurdly abnormal weather pattern shifts. Sorry just not happening. Now on the other hand, there are plenty of political shifts that have folks all worked up. That won't change any time soon either.