If only you’d let the government impost a carbon tax on you along with giving up lots of your freedom, we could solve this
Your white Christmas is on the way out
Global warming is winning the war on Christmas.
Scientists studying temperatures have been recording markedly hotter winters over the past 50 years. For millions of people, the holiday will be hotter than those their grandparents experienced. In the coming decades, many children alive today in the northern hemisphere may come to remember a white Christmas as mostly a memory.
Picking a single day, even Dec. 25, as a barometer for climate change can be misleading since there is so much daily and annual variation. Average seasonal trends do paint a picture, one of pervasive melting. “It’s very fair to say Decembers are warming in some places, and that is translating to a warming Christmas,†says Sean Sublette, a meteorologist with the science nonprofit Climate Matters.
By analyzing data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Sublette says the average December temperatures in 82% of US cities it studied have risen that more by at least 0.5°F since 1970. A full quarter have warmed by at least 3°F. By comparison, only 12% of the 244 cities saw average temperatures drop. And just one (in Idaho) recorded as much as a 3°F decline. The most warming—more than 5°F —occurred in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Maine; Duluth, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota and Burlington, Vermont (average where temperatures have soared 7°F). What has been recorded in Iowa has been typical for the midwest:
What’s missing from this is any evidence that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. You know what happens now, though, right? Snowy Christmas’ will start increasing.
