To claim that one cold year disproves global warming is to ignore a heap of scientific evidence.

I asked my assistant Colette to look for any articles online or in print that claim that the current cold winter disproves global warming.  She found a number of such claims made; here are some examples:

To say that the weather this year or this week disproves mountains of data about warming trends in the world over the past few centuries is a kind of arguing by anecdote, the anecdote being the weather you are experiencing today. 

What you see of course always makes a more powerful impression than what you read about, but in this case I think the writers are using immediate experience because they want to ignore, and they want the public to ignore, a preponderance of evidence that represents the immediate experience of literally billions of people for hundreds of years.

Weather will fluctuate from hour to hour, from day to day, from year to year, and even from decade to decade, but global warming is about a general tendency that is decades old and is now rapidly changing the ecosystems of most living things.  If we ignore it, we lose the ability to slow it down and to insulate humans and other living things from what could be devastating effects.

14 thoughts on “To claim that one cold year disproves global warming is to ignore a heap of scientific evidence.

  1. I feel it is a nice point of view. I most often meet people who rather say what they suppose others want to hear. Good and well written! I will come back to your site for sure!

  2. my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insight at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.

  3. It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their problem in the first place.

  4. my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insight at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.

  5. You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.

  6. Thank you so much for your outlook, I totally agree with you. It is great to see a fresh outlook on this and I look forward to a lot more.

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  8. Global warming is a leading topic that merely ignoring is NOT going to work out! Thanks for the informatory blog post. Thanks for spreading the subject matter. This blog is sure enough bookmarked!

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