On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:42:31 AM UTC-7, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 11/19/2014 12:31 AM, wrote:
It's called _global_ warming because the average temperature of the
whole world gets hotter, but just because the average goes up
doesn't mean there can't be record cold in some parts of the world,
and climate scientists know that having more thermal energy does
stuff like make the jet stream in the northern hemisphere move
farther south than normal and bring more cold with it.


Buffalo, NY (well, south of the city, not as much
the city itself) got 76 inches of snow in a 24
hour period. The NYS Thruway was shut down from the
west corner of the state through to Henrietta, NY,
exits 61 through 46 yesterday, and continues
closed all of today, Nov 19, Wed, 2014. That's a lot
of global warming, and will likely lead to major
flooding when it thaws in a couple days. Hope people
have food and water at home, and the roof holds up.

Similarly, seatbelts sometimes kill people who would
have lived if they hadn't worn them. And just a few
weeks ago where I live, temperatures were 5F - 10F
hotter than normal, but I didn't cite that as proof
of global warming because, like your examples of cold
weather, they don't represent the whole picture, and
it would have been dishonest for me to claim otherwise.