The whole global warming denialism thing bugs me. Mostly because people - right wingers - point to what’s going on in their backyard, or their part of the US as proof that global warming is bunk.

Umm, what part of global in global warming do you not get? Global temps are rising, so even if temps in your slice of heaven in NY or Texas or Arkansas isn’t increasing over time, or even if you had a really bad winter, that isn’t proof that global warming is wrong.

Heck, proof that the Great Lakes region had more snow than usual isn’t proof of global warming being BS; in fact it can suggest the opposite because warmer temperatures means that the lakes wont freeze over as often, allowing those blasts of Arctic air to sweep across the lakes and dump prodigious amounts of snow in the snow belts on the downwind side (Tug Hill Plateau, Buffalo, Syracuse, etc.) It’s only when the temps get sufficiently cold that the lakes will freeze over. And for each example of warmer weather in the lower 48, I can point back at the Arctic and Alaska where there have been record heat over the past few winters (and into spring/summer).

But remember, it’s global temperatures. And they are undeniably increasing. CO2 levels are increasing and have reached record proportions - and still increasing.

So, the only folks who are believing in BS and mysticism are those who are peddling that global warming is bs.