• krellor@fedia.io
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t know. While the earth is warming on average, the weather fluctuations are becoming more extreme even on the colder side with the occasional broadening of the polar vortex. So warmer averages with more surprise frosts could be in the cards.

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        Yes, it’s why we changed to call it climate change rather than global warming. We get hot days in summer but also terribel storms and blizzards with unseasonably cold weather. And summers can be extremely hot and dry but that’s not a given.

        Average temperatures are certainly going up, hence the old term but there is much more variability is the bigger problem. A degree here or there doesn’t kill thousand. A jump of 20degrees forn2 weeks does, even if it drops down again.