If global warming is real, why is it snowing in Texas?

[CraigGoins]

I have missed about 5 days of school because of snow so far, and supposedly tomorrow is another snow day... problem is, I live on the east coast.. THE BEACH! Why is it snowing at the beach!?! 5-6 days may not seem like a lot, but I've lived here for 5 years and it has only snowed once before this year, it's insane!

[dangerouslytalented]

@CraigGoins That is the nature of higher precipitation. When the oceans get hotter, there is more evaporation, and when that happens, there is more rain, and more snow. But the summers are hotter, so that more than balances out.

[langov3]

Fucking bald ginger freak, it's CLIMATE CHANGE not global warming!

[dangerouslytalented]

@langov3 I know, and it is far more complicated than I was making out. But to talk about how complicated it ACTUALLY IS, would have taken days.

[PloK00nsClone]

Sorry, but global warming can also cause snow. Basically what global warming does is cause massive shifts in weather. I remember 10 yrs ago there was solid differences between spring/summer/fall/winter. Now, it stayed at high 70's through Oct when it used to be in the 40's-50's. But in June I remember it got down to low 50's when it used to be 70's. Record snowfall, record heat waves, and record rain. This is global warming, not some literal interpretation that meant intense heat year round.

[dangerouslytalented]

@PloK00nsClone I was explaining why, in this situation, some places were experiencing cold weather.

[metakight4]

it's all those fucking hybrid cars thats making it snow XD

[TRUMPHENT]

@dangerously... What you describe is the "North Atlantic Oscillation". It is supposedly unrelated to AGW like El Nino/LaNina.

... and if we are not in Kansas, there is only place we could be.

Wait for it....

OZ!  :)

[dangerouslytalented]

global warming is exacerbating it, by making the ocean warmer.

[nekedemus]

DMI (Danish meteorological institute) indicates that the average temperature at Prins Christian Sund on Greenland's southern tip in January was plus 0.3 degrees to the normal for the period 1961-1990 minus 4.1 degrees. With day temperatures reaching 7+ degrees

dog sledding is not recommended. First time ever ..

In Greenland !

[Comptech224]

I also thought I should point out that I've noticed this odd trend in Michigan. Typically if the tempuature is well below zero, it does not snow. I would like to ask why that is, but at the same time note that this winter in America has in fact been warmer than last. I do not recall a day so far in this month where it has dipped below zero where as last winter living here, regularly the tempuature was between 10 and minus 10 Farenhiet.

[KyuubiNaruto1337XD]

because there is no water in the air to provoke snow.

[TheSpankymonkey]

It's like "Somebody told me there was 50% girls in the world. But i don't see any, therefore there can't be 50% girls in the world"........ Glenn Beck needs slapping with a wet fish.

[DonnaSkipper]

I really believe there is no such thing as "global warming". The Earth has always warmed and cooled in cycles. What we have now is about keeping people afraid, power, but most of all MONEY. There is A LOT of money to be made with this, just ask Al Gore about that. He sure makes a ton of it when he flies around the world in his private jets and gets driven to the speeches he give in a limo so he can tell the rest of us how to live!

[dangerouslytalented]

The cycles are nowhere near as rapid as what is happening at the moment.

[DonnaSkipper]

That may be true for the time period where we have kept verifiable records, but can scientists say for a fact that that the Earth hasn't had many very quick warming and cooling cycles over tens of thousand or even millions of years? As an example, do we really have any idea how quick the last major ice age took to spread the great distances it did?

[fiusux12]

Scientists such as myself have observed data taken from ice cores. These cores show detailed relationships between temperature and carbon 13 + 14 stored in the air trapped in the ice. (this is a much simplified version, btw.)

We compare that data with known current data to conclude that we are not in Kansas anymore. I hope that helped.

:-)

[dangerouslytalented]

... and where are we if not Kansas?

[fiusux12]

personally, I think we are in dangerously uncharted waters, so to speak.

;-)

[DonnaSkipper]

Way too many of us dwell permanently in the land of" I Don't Want to Have to Think for Myself so tell Me Anything and I Will Believe It"! It's a place where you can stay sleep for 24/7.

[dangerouslytalented]

Given a choice between believing a majority of the scientists in the field of climatology and that egocentric dipshit Lord Monckton, I would choose the scientists.

[DonnaSkipper]

You might be correct in saying "we are not in Kansas anymore", but I also think we really can't trust that "man behind the curtain" ( Al Gore, celebrities, politicians with agendas, corporations, those benefiting monetarily, etc) either!

Maybe "we the people" have just been lied to so often, about so much, that we just don't immediately believe what we are told is the truth anymore.

[fiusux12]

I do not disagree with you. When politicians and pundits are doing the science reporting, there is something fundamentally wrong.

My response to this is I made a video asking that... "we the people" DEMAND science education at a basic college level for anyone interested in writing laws that affect the rest of us. Unfortunately,it made a very small splash. :-(

[fiusux12]

*(replace Carbon with Oxygen)*

[CaptainCrumple]

@fiusux12 and shorten everyone's life spans by about 20+ years

[grindstonejournal]

Informative and entertaining.

[papafox]

I think the mechanism on the eastern seaboard of the US may be different than you describe, but with the same effect and for similar reasons.

Background: In the DC area, we usually get 1-2 significant snowfalls during the year, with a blizzard once every 10 years or so. This year we've had 4 major storms, 3 of them blizzards, and total snowfall that's the highest in the entire 126 years they've been measuring it. Severe cold snaps are not unusual, but the snowfall is unprecedented.

[papafox]

(cont) Our snow is generally caused by a combination of dry cold air coming from the northwest mixing with warm humid air driven north from the Gulf and the Caribbean. What's different this year is a much higher amount of warm humid air being driven north from warmer waters. And I'm getting sick o repeatedly digging my car out of the damned snow! :-D

[Doubter5]

Not to mention how the tons and tons of freshwater from the melting Ice caps is actually forcing the warm waters of the Atlantic Jet Stream farther south, which keeps the war air that it's carrying from warming the eastern seaboard and northern atlantic as much as it did in the past.

Great vid tho! Keep up the good work!

[Meiklelodians]

God did it...of course it's the only reason...God is all powerful apparently..if you ask me he is being a c**t...

[Christheatheist1]

Intelligent argument + cool props = 5* + sub!

[MeIoco]

I say GOOD!

let the eastern seaboard have it for a while.

[fantasy0coach]

Great title and vid.

[TheLifthrasir]

Lies!

It's Belgium's fault. It called Thor a twat and now we're all suffering.

[Elenkhos]

I could here you! I could here you!! Yes~YES...hahahahahahaha....YE­EEEEES!

[MrKrov]

So you do science too, eh?

[fractal420]

Well put video.

9.99999 out of 10. If only it had a cool sign off....