jman19
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Originally posted by: Matthias99
Originally posted by: jman19
I understand what you're saying, and I agree a lot of the ideas about what is causing GW are up for debate, but Corbett appears to be attacking the notion of increased tempatures world wide, which seems to be well accepted. Regardless of that, snow in Illinois in April really has nothing to do with GW, does it?
It does if it's related to higher water temperatures in the Pacific causing stronger storms to occur later in the season (basically, more frequent and stronger El Nino years).
I'm not saying that is necessarily the case, but very little weather is truly "local". While you can't say that April snowstorms by themselves are evidence of global warming/climate change, they're not evidence of a lack of it either.
Yea, and I never said that there was evidence or that there wasn't evidence - just that you can't say anything really about GW based on snow in Illinois in April. Doesn't seem too far fetched to me actually. It was 60+ degrees on the east coast in December, which doesn't really happen all that often either.
And yes, I am aware that weather is a global event, which is exactly why I said you shouldn't take one data point and extrapolate an opinion based on it.