This is an Associated Press article which originally had the headline
How Climate Change and Human Psychology Make This US Cold Snap Feel So Harsh
as we can see at the US Today. The Boston Herald has the same, as do many many others. For some reason the AP change it to a less cultish one
Why this US cold snap feels bone-shattering when its not record-shattering
The brutally frigid weather that has gripped most of America for the past 11 days is not unprecedented. It just feels that way.
The first quarter of the 21st century was unusually warm by historical standards – mostly due to human-induced climate change – and so a prolonged cold spell this winter is unfamiliar to many people, especially younger Americans.
Because bone-shattering cold occurs less frequently, Americans are experiencing it more intensely now than they did in the past, several experts in weather and behavior said. But the longer the current icy blast lasts – sub-freezing temperatures are forecast to stick around in many places — the easier it should become to tolerate.
“We adapt, we get used to things. This is why your first bite of dessert is much more satisfying than your 20th bite,” Hannah Perfecto, who studies consumer behavior at Washington University in St. Louis, wrote in an email. “The same is true for unpleasant experiences: Day 1 of a cold snap is much more a shock to the system than Day 20 is.”
I suppose we should have seen this coming as a way to justify the cold as being not really that cold, it’s mostly in your minds because carbon pollution is making it warmer but also causing snow storms and cold weather.
Charlie Steele, a 78-year-old retired federal worker in Saugerties, New York, considers himself a lover of cold weather. In the recent past, he has gone outside in winter wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and has even walked barefoot in the snow. But this January’s deep-freeze is “much, much colder than anything I can remember,” he said.
Steele’s sense of change is backed up data.
There have been four fewer days of subfreezing temperatures in the U.S. per year, on average, between 2001 and 2025 than there were in the previous 25 years, according to data from Climate Central. The data from more than 240 weather stations also found that spells of subfreezing temperatures have become less widespread geographically and haven’t lasted as long — until this year.
Four whole days! Can we compare this to data from the previous Holocene warm periods? That would rather be required in order to do Science. Meh, that doesn’t matter to the Warmists, because this is a cult.
Read: Hotcold Take: This Cold Snap Feels Worse Because Of ‘Climate Change’ »
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