Been hearing this for 40 years now. Will we be reading this in another 40 years? Call me a skeptic, get angry at me, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Also, regardless of your opinion and what you "see", what happened to trusting the scientific method & looking at the actual numbers?
As Gates said "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."
I think that any personal observation about climate on such a timescale is almost always unreliable. By the way, a common cliche' phrase at least a century old in Italian is "there are no mid-seasons any more", and another one is "there are no more winters like there used to be". In "Dictionnaire des idées reçues", a satirical dictionary of cliches compiled in the 1870s, Flaubert lists for both summer and winter the same cliche: "always exceptional".
I too remember playing in a few feet of snow only to barely reach below freezing point a few times a winter. The last couple of winters were actually barren of any snow where I live
What these cliches suggest to me is that there is a human tendency to either mis-remember the climate of our youth or to misjudge the exceptionality of the current weather (similar somehow to how old people tend to grumble about the "new generations" and how they'll ruin everything- and it's been like that for millennia). Or alternatively, that weather patterns always change, slowly enough to be assumed as stable, but still quickly enough to be noticeable on a long human timescale.
In either case, the fact that remarks on the exceptionality of the weather and its difference from the past existed before any CO2 - induced climate change was happening, says that we cannot rely on that type of impression to confirm the scientific measurements about the climate. It's strange we think otherwise, because one of the fundamental tenets of science is that subjective observation is biased and unreliable, and rigorous measures need to be taken to remove that subjective bias from observation.
The doomsayers were very nearly right, twice, once during kuban crisis, and once in 1983.
There is no afterall, we still have 100x more nukes than there are cities in the world. We are a buttonpress away from extinction.
And what will do you do then?
* More violent hurricane seasons, more lively wildfire seasons, longer droughts and shorter winters do not count because reasons.
20 years ago in Poland I used to go and play in snow with my brother. Building snow forts etc. And that was well before Christmas.
Nowdays its a miracle if there is 'a snowfall' once before Xmas.
We might as well drop term 'White Christmas' in mainland Europe.
You are not a skeptic, just ignorant (I am well pass getting angry at people like you, since its pointless).
That's by definition change in a pattern.
One could argue if that's humans fault or not.
But saying its natural so we should do nothing, is like doing nothing because a totally natural meteorite is going to hit the earth.
If you thought in February that it wasn’t a big deal, if you listened to folks who said “the cases will go to zero soon”, well, perhaps you should check your epistemology and listen to folks who know what they are talking about.
Additionally, I believe it is pointless to constantly worry about something you don't have the power to change. Even if you are a believer, the only thing you're going to get out of reading these articles will be stress and anxiety. There's no clear call to action for the average joe. The sun will explode one day too, but it's needless to have articles about it every week warning us of the dire consequences, because we can't do anything about it.
Exactly like my inability to stop climate change, I offer my single drop of upvote into the torrent of downs that you're going to get.