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These days, being politically correct like the OP is attempting to be, is looked upon by society very favorably, but scientists and those who place reality above politics are loathed.
Reminds me of when China started doing this, and denigrating anyone who was seen as academic. Its taken them generations to recover from it.
If global warming is suppose to melt anarctica and the arctic, where else will it be cold? I am curious...
The question isn't a silly as it sounds. It is entire possible that as the planet warms in aggregate, parts of it would be systematically and considerably colder. One example is what evidently happened as the past ice-age was ending... overall warming trend (unmistakable, no?) --> north Atlantic ice melts/retreats --> impedes flow of the Gulf Stream --> Northwestern Europe feels considerably colder - for centuries. Imagine cavemen meteorologists in Europe 10,000 (or however many) years ago, bemoaning the colder winters and calling conclusion of the ice-age a hoax.
Personally, I marvel how often it happens every winter, that the temperature in my part of the world (SW Ohio) is colder than in NW Russia (I pick that region for personal reasons). Imagine... a greater than 20 degree difference in latitude, and yet, here in the American lower Midwest, so often it's considerably colder.
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Originally Posted by greywar
Reminds me of when China started doing this, and denigrating anyone who was seen as academic. Its taken them generations to recover from it.
Unfortunately this trend has been accelerating in America for decades. Notice that one of the most reviled professions in America is that of college professor!
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post — 88 years ago!
It's warmer than normal out west. The same pacific high system responsible for that is responsible for the polar vortex descending on the east. People in the east think they are the the center of the universe.
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