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luna_k in liberalrage

Yeah, I Think it Could Be A Possibility

Jan 06, 2007 18:42

ABC News asks, Global warming and warm weather: connected?

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roguetailkinker January 6 2007, 23:49:35 UTC

*snerk* Yeah, some deduction. It was 76 degrees yesterday, and about 56 last night. Some January weather.

jennifer19 January 6 2007, 23:49:45 UTC

70 here in Northern Delaware. I both loved and hated it. I love that temp. range but it's JANUARY so therefore I do not like it one bit. Creeps me out.

luna_k January 6 2007, 23:58:42 UTC

It creeps me out too. Dammit, it's supposed to be COLD in January! My internal clock is all wonky.

wonky January 6 2007, 23:50:00 UTC

I live in Phoenix, AZ and it was 62 degrees here today. It's colder here then it is in DC. Eerie. D:

wonky January 6 2007, 23:51:04 UTC

...than* Sorry, it's annoying when people do this but I hate when I type the wrong than/then.

thisficklemob January 7 2007, 01:00:22 UTC

Not only that, it's ten degrees colder there than it is here in Massachusetts. O.o

annearchy January 6 2007, 23:51:39 UTC

I was in Florida the past week, but we arrived back in the Midwest yesterday to temps in the mid-to-high 40s to low 50s :-O Nope, no global warming going on there...

xiaomi January 6 2007, 23:51:43 UTC

70 in Boston today, that blew away prior records, absolutely blew them out of the water.

This is El Niño. A natural phenomenon, and a particularly bad one this year. El Niño is natural, but this is the worst one that I can remember since I moved to the Northeast from Arizona (an El Niño in Arizona doubles our rainfall for the year). There's an open question as to whether or not El Niño is caused by global warming, but some people think there's a link? There's a dearth of reliable information on the subject.

luna_k January 6 2007, 23:57:23 UTC

Ah, I remember El Nino. It was a buzzword back in the mid-90's, right? Sorry.

El Niño is natural, but this is the worst one that I can remember since I moved to the Northeast from Arizona

I thought that the greenhouse gases and all that contributed to El Nino. Where did I get that from?

dreago January 6 2007, 23:59:28 UTC

I also heard that El Nino is natural but that global warming makes it longer and more extreme. The last bad one when I was in college caused nothing but Rain in Cali and a draught so bad it killed most of the cattle in Argentina.

69 degrees in NYC.

xiaomi January 7 2007, 00:09:23 UTC

You remember it from the mid-90s because the last really "drastic" one was probably during then, it's probably why I also remember it from Arizona (left in '94), so my guess is that around New Years '94 or '93 we had a really bad one. I could find out if I looked harder, I bet. Same for the global warming effect; I don't doubt that there is one, it'd just be a matter of doing the right research, maybe I'll google more later.