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The climate is going crazy, but strictly speaking, you can't logically conclude that from solely your local weather fluctuations. I.e., climate change is a global property of our planet, which requires global statistics...which we have, but your folks either refuse to look or refuse to listen to experts who have looked.
And extreme weather events are more likely, but that doesn't mean they never occurred before or never would occur without climate change.
I'm not saying this to downplay the severity of the climate crisis or even to say that you literally can never use local weather events to reason about climate change, but IMO is it both politically and mathematically important to stress the global nature of climate change whenever it is brought up.
From a pure scientific method standpoint 100%
But changes local weather can easily be corroborated by satelite data of the polar vortex.
Like we can see that wind from the north pole is dipping south faster than it used to. Resulting in cold snaps as the wind rushes south and heat domes in regions between the jetstreams.
This directly results in the increasingly frequent and extreme weather fluctuations we've been been experiencing.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022018/cold-weather-polar-vortex-jet-stream-explained-global-warming-arctic-ice-climate-change/
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In my region we regularly have a "false spring" this time of year. We get a week of warm that melts the snow in the valley and then a week later it drops back down and snows again.
But lately the hi's and low's are 10c hotter/colder. The heat in between is so warm trees start coming out of hybernation. The cold snaps so fast that it threatens local agriculture.
We just got a foot of wet snow and tomorrow it's supposed to br 15c and sunny.
I mean plants that have grown here forever, literally evolved here, are dying because they can't handle the tempertures. That doesn't alarm anyone?
Yep, I got ya!