An excellent depiction of climate change deniers...

[Playinghardball]

[YarnAddict]

1. Believe me,

"global warming" is a tough sell this winter.

[LanternWaste]

2. 4th warmest Janurary on record.

"January was the fourth warmest January on record. Not really a tough sell at all to anyone who looks beyond anecdotal experience for data..."

That's pretty much all I have to say to anyone who thinks this winter is "evidence" of the myth or exaggeration of climate change.

[YarnAddict]

3. How do they calculate that?

I saw that several places have set new records for cold temps this winter.

[sharp_stick]

5. They calculate it globally

and they've been plenty hot down South this summer.

[arcane1]

6. Correct. Australia’s hottest year recorded in 2013

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/03/australias-hottest-year-recorded-in-2013

As I mentioned below, people tend to think of their own little patch as being the entire planet, and thus their experience isn't an accurate picture.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Anecdotally

It's been really summer like and dry in California with record warm weather.

In reality this takes into account conditions around the globe, and those cold recrds, they are part of the more extreme weather climate change predicts.

[hatrack]

10. It's all about global averages, and nations are startlingly small as percentages of Earth's surface

United States - 1.9%
Australia -1.5%
Russia - 3.5%
Canada - 2%
China - 1.9%

So, whatever may be happening in your neck of the woods, or even nationwide, it's small potatoes as far as planetary temperature trends.

[arcane1]

4. Not in California, or in the southern hemisphere.

The hard part is people being so myopic that they think their tiny little fraction of the globe is representative of the whole.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. That is why Gore made a mistake and should have stuck

with the term adopted in other countries and academia. CLIMATE CHANGE

[NightWatcher]

8. That's why it's called Global Climate Change and not Weather Change

climate
noun
noun: climate; plural noun: climates
1.the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.

weather
noun
noun: weather
1.the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc


climate change
noun
a long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature:



The WEATHER changes from day to day. Today the weather was rainy, but tomorrow the weather should be sunny and warm.

CLIMATE change includes major changes in temperature, precipitation, or wind patterns, among others, that occur over several decades or longer.