So hot-

I live in PA and it has been pushing 60 degrees, and will be all week. It's December and it feels and looks like spring! Ignorant people here here are like "Yeah, isn't it great?" Global warming coupled with a lack of awareness is terrifying to me

Indian summers aren't due to Global Warming.

Indian Summer occurs for about 2 weeks in November

Sure, buddy. And I bet you don't think they're caused by indians, either.

So does the second week of December. It's a Gregorian calendar thing.

You're right. I still don't think that a few days of warm weather in December is attributable to global warming. Global Warming's effects are a lot more gradual (and more frightening).

Isn't global warming a bit less gradual the longer it happens? The change from reflecting 90% of the sun's rays and absorbing 10%, to the exact opposite is quite a bit frightening-- like NOW kind of frightening. Maybe I'm paranoid, but this weather is insane

I'll admit the weather is funky but I'll take 51 instead of the wind chill warnings we had the last week.

Like when the high temp. is 11 farenheit.

It's either in the 30's of the 70's here these days. I don't care if it's hot or cold. I just want the weather to make up it's mind, so that I can stop playing guessing games in my closet.

I decided I was not going to be a member of the nay-sayers on this one. There is too much talk on the subject these days to ignore it. I mean, the PENGUINS are dying for christs sake! Really though- with a problem this magnificent, why not just take it seriously? Ignoring it does no one any good. I'm buying a hybrid car next year. Or something

I got 30 degrees, and it's beginning to convince me that global warming may be a complete lie
Although in July, i had a 117 degrees telling me something else

As a Canadian I'd implore you to quit your god damned whining and enjoy it. *puts on heavier jacket*

OMG GLOBAL WARMING!!! O NOEZ!!

Global warmings influence is felt in like fractions of a degree. Get a grip.

And as someone who lives in Chicago I can tell you that I've been standing on the corner of State Street spraying a case of Aqua Net into the sky for a week now and it's still freezing my tits off.

Now that's just silly, man.

There's no need to freeze on the corner. Just let your car idle on high, turn the heater up full blast, and spray the aqua net out the window. That way, you stay warm, and put EVEN MORE earth destroying toxicity into the atmosphere.

Efficiency and comfort, all in one.

Also, you might consider lighting a giant pile of tires on fire, using whale blubber and baby seals for kindling. The seals and blubber won't wreck the ozone layer, but in for a penny, in for a pound.*


*A pound, in this case, referring to a pound of burning coal, rather than money.

Well it would have to be a really old can since CFCs are no longer in cans of Aqua Net. Anyway, how is it only felt in fractions of a degree? Do you have a theory with which to enlighten me? I'd LOVE to think this was all a bunch of pish-posh and go back to my guilt-free, self-absorbed lifestyle

Hmmmm.... maybe I'm missing something, but nowhere in that article does it say that a week and a half of hot weather in December in the state of Pennsylvania is ok. Regardless of peoples' beliefs and non beliefs on the subject, things are changing. I think that if the product wasn't pleasant as hell for most people, there would be more of us working to remedy the problem. Weather like this isn't upsetting anyone around here because it's enjoyable. Just so I get it right, are you all saying global warming is no big deal and that the effects of it are minute and not worthy of being taken seriously? I would LIKE to go skiing at the many slopes we have nearby and last year was shit due to lack of snow and abundance of rain. This year is looking worse and worse

Obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about. Thanks for setting me straight everyone! I willl read more internet articles on the subject so I know what the hell is going on

No. What we're saying is that what you are perceiving as the effects of global warming are not the effects of global warming.. Global warming's effects (as i said before) are a lot more subtle, and a lot more dangerous than a break in the cold weather. If it were 15 degrees below average (and it will be at some point) you wouldn't say that global warming is a myth, would you? You're using the same logic.

Read Bean's article again.

OK so what I'm getting is that a few degrees higher globally within a certain period of time is how it affects us-- not a string of warm weather in December. Then why does it seem so strange to feel like winter is getting warmer and summer is getting longer etc? What IS the reason for this crazines?

The reason for this "craziness" is the fact that the planet is an everchanging environment. And as a species we desire control and fear what we cannot. This leads to junk science and wastes of effort to control and contain that which will not be.

I can respect that. I do get creeped out by weather. I guess it's easy to go overboard on this subject because it seems so different. I lived in southern CA for a good long time so my recollections of PA weather are from practically childhood. I really am glad to know now that this is not a tragedy but a nice happy warm December. Technically winter doesn't start for another week anyway.

Now I feel like chicken little-- shit! Yeah, I watched the Al Gore movie. I'll admit it.

Which in turn leads to us causing things like a hole in the Ozone Layer and adding to the problem of Global Warming....which should make things even harder to control.

Silly humans.

Thanks you.