In the wake of a historic Gulf Coast blizzard, climate change denial talking points will have a renewed vigor. Here's a handy cheat sheet for how to engage with deniers:
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Climate can be thought of as the entire sample while weather is the individual data points. There can be outliers. There are always outliers. But the truth is in the entire sample. That sample is warming.
Yes, it was cold at your house yesterday. But somewhere else, there was a record high. Point them to somewhere like https://coolwx.com/records. There are nearly always more record highs on the globe than record lows.
3. A warming atmosphere supports more frequent high precipitation events.
Higher temperatures mean the atmosphere is capable of holding more water vapor. More water vapor means more precipitable water and latent heat in the atmosphere. That means heavier rain, and yes, heavier snow events.
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Climate can be thought of as the entire sample while weather is the individual data points. There can be outliers. There are always outliers. But the truth is in the entire sample. That sample is warming.
Yes, it was cold at your house yesterday. But somewhere else, there was a record high. Point them to somewhere like https://coolwx.com/records. There are nearly always more record highs on the globe than record lows.
Higher temperatures mean the atmosphere is capable of holding more water vapor. More water vapor means more precipitable water and latent heat in the atmosphere. That means heavier rain, and yes, heavier snow events.