January/February Mid/Long Range Disco IV: A New Hope

[fujiwara79]

The new base state means that instead of chasing KUs, we'll be chasing car toppers.  Just like we are for tomorrow morning.

[jayyy]

The new base state means that instead of chasing KUs, we'll be chasing car toppers.  Just like we are for tomorrow morning.

Bullshit lol. The days of KUs aren’t over, give me a break.


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[fujiwara79]

9 hours ago, jayyy said:

Bullshit lol. The days of KUs aren’t over, give me a break.


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KUs won't be extinct, but they will be an endangered species.  They'll be like snow leopards.  

[psuhoffman]

22 hours ago, Its a Breeze said:

I mean, aren't we still technically still recovering from the last ice age?   What if...snowy periods are the anomaly.

Aren't we on basically the same latitude as places like Sacramento, Lisbon, Athens?

Again, what is the point?  There were warmer climate periods in the past.  Maybe we are cycling into another warmer period on a longer time scale.  That does not change the fact it is getting warmer right now compared to the periods we are comparing it too which is the more recent past.  And so what if it was super warm at some point in time hundreds of years before I was born...is that supposed to make me feel any better about getting less snow now?  

[Ji]

33 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

Again, what is the point?  There were warmer climate periods in the past.  Maybe we are cycling into another warmer period on a longer time scale.  That does not change the fact it is getting warmer right now compared to the periods we are comparing it too which is the more recent past.  And so what if it was super warm at some point in time hundreds of years before I was born...is that supposed to make me feel any better about getting less snow now?  

it was not suppose to be warm hundreds of years ago because we didnt have planes,cars and trains polluting the atmosphere. So i dont buy any historical log that there were warm winters back in the day

[Its a Breeze]

1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

Again, what is the point?  There were warmer climate periods in the past.  Maybe we are cycling into another warmer period on a longer time scale.  That does not change the fact it is getting warmer right now compared to the periods we are comparing it too which is the more recent past.  And so what if it was super warm at some point in time hundreds of years before I was born...is that supposed to make me feel any better about getting less snow now?  

Only for context. And no, it doesn't make anyone (who loves snow) feel good. We've been trying to compare what we feel is anomalous to the norm, when it's quite possibly the opposite in the grand scheme of things.

"it was not suppose to be warm hundreds of years ago because we didnt have planes,cars and trains polluting the atmosphere."

And that's the thing. If we're looking in that long term context, then....it WAS supposed to be warmer. This still is pretty much the coldest the earth has ever been. Cold isn't the "normal", warm is...in that context.

 

[psuhoffman]

2 hours ago, Its a Breeze said:

Only for context. And no, it doesn't make anyone (who loves snow) feel good. We've been trying to compare what we feel is anomalous to the norm, when it's quite possibly the opposite in the grand scheme of things.

"it was not suppose to be warm hundreds of years ago because we didnt have planes,cars and trains polluting the atmosphere."

And that's the thing. If we're looking in that long term context, then....it WAS supposed to be warmer. This still is pretty much the coldest the earth has ever been. Cold isn't the "normal", warm is...in that context.

 

human norms and expectations are not set on that timescale.  We base them on our experiences and the more recent relevant past.  Even if we had records boing back millions of years we wouldn't be basing our current expectations on previous climate periods from hundreds of years before anyone today was live.  

[WEATHER53]

14 hours ago, jayyy said:

Bullshit lol. The days of KUs aren’t over, give me a break.


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Pearl clutching hand wringing is a staple. 
We still get a biggie winter every 5/6 years. 

[Miss Pixee]

Drum's been beat so hard the skin is coming off.