Winter: Baby, It's Cold Outside!

I'm in the midwest. It seems to me that we were pretty well prepared. Some people ignore the warnings. Are you suggesting that we should become a police state, and force everybody to obey the warnings? Unlikely. We expect periods of cold in winter. We have seen worse weather than this in previous years, though usually not in December.It seems more likely that the drumbeat of right wing denialist propaganda may have caused some people to ignore the warnings. Who is dumb enough to suppose that? Oh, I guess that right wing extremists such as marc9000 might be foolish enough to make that mistake. Human failures are to blame. There are plenty of fallible humans on both sides of politics.

You have misunderstood what they say. Both terms have been used to refer to the affects of increased greenhouse gases.

Right wingers are the primary users of scare tactics. Nevertheless, refrigerators produce heat. Do you have any actual evidence to support this claim? Or are you just making it up as one of your own political scare tactics?

Refrigerators do that. It's all part of thermodynamics. I'll take that as an admission that you do not have actual evidence.

and "Brilliant" comments about global warming.If this is typical of what those on the political right are thinking, then we are doomed.

The oceans are rising in Miami, in New York City, in Venice and in many other places.But keep wearing those blinders, and you might not notice.

On the front line of sea level rises -- University of WollongongSea level rise will see 40pc of Australia's beaches lost, predicts new studyClimate change impacts on sea level rise - NSWHmm, what was that you were saying?

You must be in a relatively warm part of Wisconsin.Here (Chicago suburbs) I woke up to -9, and it will go down to -16 tonight.