re: This might be the mildest winter in my lifetime.

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are you actually telling me you can feel the less than 1/5 of a degree per decade of temperature increase?

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Ok well you obviously don't understand how any of this works, but lol Al Gore climate change a hoax baw!!! Ignorance is bliss.

I looked up the record highs and lows at DFW since 2000. Anyone can do the same at your local weather.gov site.
It's scary how many record highs we've had and almost none of the other extreme.

Yeah I know, those lib nerds at the weather office fudging the temperatures.

Anecdotally, I remember occasional 70's and 80's in the winter when I was a kid 30 years ago.. but that was anamolous and short lived. Nowadays they stick around most all winter (last year) or weeks at a time. I have no research grant money to be made from this observation and have as yet not Been invited to the illuminati.

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Its South Louisiana. Christmas will usually be cold or warm.

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dayummmm.. Chris with the hot take

Weather is great. Easy limits of specks to be had

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I'm sorry, are you actually telling me you can feel the less than 1/5 of a degree per decade of temperature increase?

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No, I didn't say that at all. But this was my mistake as I only made my retort to your one line saying climate change is something that is commonly laughed at by scientists (your bringing up of NASA).

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Should I not laugh at a person who suggests he can, or that two mild winters are an indicator of climate change?

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Depending on where this person is from, it's really not all that laughable. Also, it's quite possible you're talking to people here that are 30-60 years old and remember things being different when they were growing up.

There is most definitely a disparity in signal to noise ratio for all of this data, and those scientists have to pick through it all to find what is truly the signal (taking into account the sun's energy output, El Nino vs. La Nina vs. normal years, etc.).

I'm sure you were quick to point out that climate change wasn't a thing those two years we had snow and ice deep down south in December and January not long ago.

And this temperature increase you keep quoting is yearly average temperature at a global scale in the decades since 1975 (from what I found in a quick search, and it's also in degrees Celsius which would make it .306 degrees Fahrenheit). Which can mean that the highs are higher and the lows aren't quite as low as they used to be, or any combination of the two for the WHOLE year.

So, to take this date as an example in Baton Rouge, the record high was recorded last year at 84F, that's 21 degrees higher than the average high on December 26. And today we hit 80F. Today's low will by 70F as opposed to the average low of 42F. Previous years, however, were around the means recently (back to signal vs. noise). Also, I believe many record high temperatures(in all seasons) have been set in the last decade or so.

Completely crazy how people might think they can feel the temperature increase over time, eh?




Can it can be debated whether climate change is due to anthropogenic causes, part of a natural cycle, or a combination of the two? Sure. But if you want to deny that something is happening, you really don't have much of a leg to stand on in the realms of scientific research.

Oh my God dude, are you still harping on that global heating movie you saw?

I never said anything about scientists. By climate change zealots, I'm referring to the people who start screaming about climate change every time an invest forms in the Atlantic, or when we have a warm winter, or when we have a wildfire. It's that absurdity which does tend to make the trumpet climate crowd change look foolish and ignorant.

Let's be honest, no one here can perceive the temperature difference of one degree farenheit over 30 years. Climate change isn't causing more storms, we're actually in the longest drought of a major hurricane landfall in the United States in recorded history, since 1851. Climate change didn't cause "Super storm Sandy", a weak category one hurricane.

As long as a certain crowd keeps calling "wolf," you're going to turn people off from trying to address anything at all.

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Who, exactly, is laughing at climate change proponents besides "business as usual," science-denier types? Because it's certainly not NASA.

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You know what is NOT science? Claiming broad-reaching environmental changes based on very specific causalities calculated by completely ignoring all precedence because of "consensus." You know there was consensus about a flat Earth and the sun rotating about the Earth once too. They called all who questioned it heretics and deniers.

It's snowed in 04, 08 and 14, which is as much as it ever has here in a decade. But morons believe they can detect climate change over 3 years.

Confusing weather with climate change.