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Re:Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season by subradios on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:37AM (#34232775)
Extremely funny, because for the last fifteen years whenever it got bitterly, unseasonably cold (like in the US last week) - climate deniers would quietly chuckle and be shouted down with screams of "weather is not climate".

Which it's true, it was stupid then to take a cold snap as "climate change is fake lol", but it's also stupid now to take a warm spell as "we are doomed climate chaaange".

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Re:Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season by adammarples on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @03:15PM (#34237359)
Generally I wouldn't characterise the climate change deniers as "quietly chuckling", while the other side was "screaming". But no, neither weird cold snaps or weird heatwaves are climate change. However, increased volatility and unusual variation both ways can indeed be caused by and associated with global warming.
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