re: #227 ludwigvanquixote

And now for some truth and some science.

1. It is a fact that warmer water gives off more water vapor.

2. It is a fact that when great masses of water vapor get hit with cold arctic air in winter, there will be a great deal of precipitation.

3. What the deniers are claiming as proof against AGW is actually evidence of it.

Consider Baltimore, Washington and southern areas hit with more snow than in the north. Like in PA and NY.

This is not an accident. This is not a mystery. Baltimore, on the Chesapeake, and DC in a swamp are humid at the best of times. But with the warmer mid Atlantic, these low lying and by the water areas, have massive amounts more water vapor in winter than usual and hence there is a much more significant storm.

A few degrees makes a huge difference.

Do not believe the fools and liar on this blog, or anywhere who tell you that the effects of AGW are in some distant future. We are feeling them now, and I assure you that DC and Baltimore are currently shut down by these storms.

However, storms are going to get more and more frequent and they will have greater intensity. This is the science.

It gets vastly worse from here if we do not change course. It gets vastly worse in our lifetimes.

It gets intolerable in the 100 years.

This is a very interesting comment. Much of this thread has discussed how individual weather events are not proof of global warming one way or the other (even though both sides make the claim). Your comment implies that these recent storms are in fact (or at least could be) caused by global warming.