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Normal Weather Patterns, OR GLOBAL WARMING?!?

submitted by thepinky

1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

Since 2009-2010 is going to be another El Niño year, I thought I'd pose the question: Is Southern Oscillation more intense because of global warming? I've heard meteorologists from California blaming this year's strange weather patterns on global warming, but failing to mention El Niño. I've also heard many meteorologists vehemently emphasize that this weather is normal for El Niño, and that it has no relationship to global warming. If the latter is true, I say: I don't care how much you want to prove global warming to the crazy people who deny that climate change is happening, don't use normal weather patterns as a way to convince/frighten your viewers.

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Did you know that El Niño is Spanish for "The Niño?" It's true.

Both of the meteorologists in your example are straw men, especially if you can't provide quotes/links to any real meteorologists saying those things. One says it's all climate change, the other says its all El Nino. The experts in the video didn't say either.

Could there not be something in between that is closer to the truth?

"The experts in the video didn't say either."

That isn't true. The first meteorologist in the video said that it was all El Niño.

Why do you think that I doubt the in-between? I didn't claim that there is no in-between. I think that climate change is very likely to change our weather patterns. I'm just annoyed by the people I've heard blaming El Niño weather on climate change, which I see as irresponsible reporting meant to sensationalize the truth. Anyway, I've seen and heard this on local news stations. I'm sorry that I didn't provide quotes/links? I'm not writing a research paper, just commenting on a video on the interwebs.

Moving this video to thepinky's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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