This data is completely relative. In the midwest, the last several years have been some of the coldest on record. So while the West Coast had some of the driest and warmest weather, the midwest has seen some of the coldest:
The climate statistics are in from the National Weather Service and winter 2013-2014 will go down as one of the coldest on record in both Missouri and Illinois.
State wide temperature data showed Missouri finished the December 2013 to February 2014 period 4.6°F below normal, which is the tenth coldest on record, and coldest since 1979. Illinois saw its 9th coldest winter on record, also the coldest since 1979, with an average winter temperature 6.3° below normal. Climate records date back to 1895.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/weather/2013-14-winter-ranks-in...
In fact, "extreme weather patterns" are predicted by climate change scientists. Some areas will get really cold while other areas get really hot. Temperatures fluctuating wildly should be cause for concern.
Agreed! It’s just unfortunate people just as often use “it’s hot where I am” to prove climate change. But they get a pass because they’re on the correct side.
Which "people"? This is a strawman.
>they get a pass because they’re on the correct side.
You know what, if you read an Addition Table, and memorize that 2+2=4, but you don't know how to reason it out from the base principals, field and ring theory, geometry, etc? Sure you get a pass. The experts have done the math many times, and you can trust them.
If you want to tell me 2+2=5 because you found an table from an Addition Denier online? Then yeah, you're going to be ridiculed.
No, it's not. These are global temperatures. 2019 was the second-hottest year on record, looked at globally.
The UK Met easily predicted this year's temps to be second-highest.
(hopefully this will not shock my American friends)
If you think GW is a man made disaster, then you need no qualifications.
If you don't, there aren't enough qualifications on earth for your opinion to matter.
If you had to choose between investing advice from a named financial expert or from me, an anonymous internet poster, you would be wise to either go with the named expert (who you could research their qualifications) or ask me for information on my expertise.
This article has no climate scientist mentioned.
These are business people who are talking more about legislative risk and consumer trends than loss from GW related events.
They did add "large-scale biodiversity losses" as part of the climate change threat. Either way, what are your personal qualifications on the subject? It shouldn't be about what's "easiest to believe", but what the data shows us. Here's some data that just came out [1]: 2019 was the second-hottest year on record, continuing a global warming trend, researchers say.
"Six of the warmest years on record occurred during the past decade"
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/15/2019-was-the-second-hottest-...