Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change

[tacoman25]

On 12/25/2025 at 1:50 PM, WolfStock1 said:

 

Weather vs Climate.

When looking at climate looking at single month, or even a single year, is meaningless - it's noise.   You have to look at multi-year or even multi-decade averages to determine what's really going on.

Of course. It's just interesting that despite the warming we've seen, over the short term there can still be some very cold periods regionally. 

This convo started, of course, with short term extreme warmth examples - which also happened to a slightly less warm degree 100 years ago.

[SnoSki14]

15 hours ago, tacoman25 said:

Of course. It's just interesting that despite the warming we've seen, over the short term there can still be some very cold periods regionally. 

This convo started, of course, with short term extreme warmth examples - which also happened to a slightly less warm degree 100 years ago.

Because it's not linear or evenly spread out plus it's weather vs climate. Look at the grand scope and you'll see warmth dominate over both a larger area and time frame. 

For example despite December being cold in the northeast US it absolutely torched for 2/3 of the country with record breaking all time December warmth in many spots. 

[tacoman25]

6 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

Because it's not linear or evenly spread out plus it's weather vs climate. Look at the grand scope and you'll see warmth dominate over both a larger area and time frame. 

For example despite December being cold in the northeast US it absolutely torched for 2/3 of the country with record breaking all time December warmth in many spots. 

Is that not weather?

And when you include AK, not even close to 2/3 of the country torched. Alaska is pretty big.

[tacoman25]

If December ended today, it would be Juneau's coldest on record. 

[SnoSki14]

On 12/27/2025 at 2:09 PM, tacoman25 said:

Is that not weather?

And when you include AK, not even close to 2/3 of the country torched. Alaska is pretty big.

The warm anomalies are so much more expansive and anomalous compared to the colder ones.