Does discussing the weather in any one place (say, Boston) have any real meaning for GLOBAL warming?

Question

Does discussing the weather in any one place (say, Boston) have any real meaning for GLOBAL warming?

Answer 1

Sure, when you are discussing this in Boston on Xmas when it 110 degs F. and you're on your house boat cruising amongst the sunken sky scrappers.  

Answer 2

Global warming is an universal phenomena. It is the total effect produced through incremental inputs from all over the world. By discussing weather in Boston and doing something to reduce pollution, you will surely contribute in improving the situation over a period of time.

The threat what we are facing now is the accumulation of thoughtless deeds performed through out the last century. It is something like a person getting lung cancer when he is old, after smoking through the best part of his life.

Answer 3

Bob what is very obvious to me is the total panic amongst the adherents of AGW/GCC as not a single one of their predictions has come to pass and in fact evidence is showing that the skeptical position is the true one. But then those that have predicted the future based on political doctrines usually find they have built a house of cards on a foundation of sand at low tide. Only now the tide is coming and the foundation is failing and soon the house will fall. Skeptics prefer to build with brick on concrete with solid ground below it, it lasts through nature’s fluctuations for generations.

Answer 4

This is a rhetorical question - the concept of global warming is an aspect of climate change, and climate is not weather over one day, or even a year.  The climate is the average weather over a long period of time, such as 30 years.

Answer 5

one day, one place?  clearly not.

one place that has changed due to urbanization -- which is probably the case fairly often, no.

on the other hand, if you were to pick a mountain, and the weather over a long period, then i'd think yes.

while such cannot be a single source, clearly, if the weather has changed over time, there's likely a reason for it.

depending on it's location (perhaps east of LA would not be particularly representative) there is a good chance that there is a climatic reason for that change.

Answer 6

No, for the simple reason that cities can create their own "micro climates".   For example take Phoenix, AZ, where thanks to large amounts of blacktop and concrete the temperature during summer nights has been hitting 110 F for well over a decade.

Radical changes in the county level weather patterns is more meaningful with regards to global warming than cities with their very localized effects on weather.