Why when it is warm out it is global warming and when its cold out global warming doesnt effect local temp?

Question

everytime i see a question 'were is global warming im freezin my @ss off' people say it doesnt effect local temp but in other kind of questions when someone asks what is proof of global warming people say 'its hotter than normal here (like 60 degrees)'

Answer 1

Not true,  weather is always weather.  I haven't seen the supposed posting trend that you're claiming, but there are uninformed people with all sorts of misinterpretations out there.

Answer 2

Colder is always weather and doesn't count towards the climate, warmth is proof the climate is heating up because of man.

Imagine if this winter was 15 degrees above average rather than the 15 degrees below average that the country has experienced this winter.

Without a doubt, that would be all the proof needed to "prove" global warming was man made.

Global warming is a selective science.  Science selects the data it needs to prove their theory, and ignores all other relevant data that goes against their preconceived ideas.

Answer 3

When talking climate, a change of even 0.5 degrees celcius (~1 degree farenheit) can have a large effect. On a day you probably wouldn't even notice a variation in 4'C. Climate is a web full of tipping points, which can easily be thrown into instability.

Answer 4

According to them it worked the other way 1000 years ago - all the examples of warmer climates were just isolated local weather and even though there is only one example of a slight cooling trend in one region, the globe on average must have been cooler.

Either that or the climate is the sum of all the weather, the global climate is the sum of all the regional climates, the climate works the same way now as it did 1000 years ago, and the MWP was real and was warmer than today.

You don't need a degree in climate science to know that if a retreating glacier reveals tools from the medieval era, it was warmer then than now.

Answer 5

Global Warming applies to long-term average climate trends.

Answer 6

Global warming is a long-term trend.  It has nothing to do with the temperature on a particular day.

Answer 7

It doesn't.  Some people (even some AGW proponents) don't understand the difference between weather and climate.

It's true that in general global warming will cause higher temperatures and more heat waves, but no single hot day or heat wave or change in local temps can be attibuted to global warming.