Personally, I love some good winter weather. I love watching the snow fall. Bundling up on a cold winter night with a fire going. On the flip side, I dread having to drive in slippery conditions with people from all over the country and world who think they know how to drive in this stuff, especially in a real wheel drive vehicle with a short wheel base. Standing outside bundled up freezing my buns off, getting windburn on my face. So, milder winters are nice. Not for the ‘climate change’ crowd, though, with the UK Guardian being very upset (via Watts Up With That)
US weather ‘preferable’ for most thanks to climate change; but there’s a catch
A large majority of Americans have enjoyed more pleasant weather due to global warming over the past 40 years, research has found, but there is set to be an unpleasant sting in the tail as temperatures escalate further this century.
Vast areas of the contiguous US have warmed considerably during winters without becoming unbearably hot during the summers, making the climate generally more agreeable to the public. A new study has found that 80% of the American population lives in areas where the weather has become more “preferable†since 1974.
According to the analysis by Duke University and New York University, 99% of Americans live in places where the average January temperature has increased, with just 60% in locations where the July temperature has risen. Rainfall and humidity changes have also, largely, changed by a favorable degree for many Americans.
This shift to more temperate conditions means that “virtually all Americans are now experiencing the much milder winters that they typically prefer, and these mild winters have not been offset by markedly more uncomfortable summers or other negative changes,†the paper found.
That sounds like a good thing. Human society did much better during the other Holocene warm periods than during the cool ones. Not that we can do much about it, since most of the warming is caused by nature. But, hey, doom!
But the situation is set for a radical reversal in the years ahead, the paper warns, with 88% of the US population set to experience temperature and weather trends that are extremely unfavorable by the end of the century.
If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t curbed, summer temperatures will start to rise rapidly, meaning far less comfortable living conditions for millions of Americans. The changes in the climate will also bring about cascading problems affecting ever-increasing numbers of people, including sea level inundation, drought,health problems, food insecurity and extreme weather events.
One has to wonder exactly why the summer temps haven’t been rising to match rising winter temps. Wouldn’t you think that if the temps were rising this would cut across all seasons? I’m sure the Warmists have excuses for that, as well, just like all cults generate excuses that prop up their beliefs.
Rising temperatures have so far been a “poor source of motivation†for the public to vocally demand policy responses to climate change due to this trend, the research, published in Nature, contends.
They seem rather upset that agreeable weather isn’t causing people to demand that government tax them and institute more and more controls on their lives, controls and taxes that Warmists refuse to institute in their own lives.
“Policymakers cannot rely upon Americans’ experiences with the weather to catalyze change,†Egan said. “They will have to look elsewhere to convince them that this a major problem.â€
Perhaps “policymakers” should be listening to The People, rather than forcing their own narrow, cultish views on them.
And, yes, the doomsaying does continue on and on and one in the article. And continues on to the LA Times, a place known for mild, agreeable weather.
