Vince is a bit of a straw man here. For a short time, I got caught up in the extremist views that there is a strong, direct link between record lows and global warming. But I am fortunate to read a lot of scientific literature, and found that while rising temperatures do tend to widen weather fluctuations (imagine an unbalanced spin cycle as it speeds up), the vast majority of serious researchers will FIRST point to the fact that we are seeing a serious decrease in such record lows over just a few generations. Yes, these changes have happened before, but they took thousands of times longer. Yes, natural processes account for much more than even our current energy use (last I checked, we churn out about 60 Hiroshima bombs per second). But when you squeeze even a “tiny” overall effect into our window of comfortable habitability, that effect gets magnified very, VERY quickly.
Vince is a bit of a straw man here. For a short time, I got caught up in the extremist views that there is a strong, direct link between record lows and global warming. But I am fortunate to read a lot of scientific literature, and found that while rising temperatures do tend to widen weather fluctuations (imagine an unbalanced spin cycle as it speeds up), the vast majority of serious researchers will FIRST point to the fact that we are seeing a serious decrease in such record lows over just a few generations. Yes, these changes have happened before, but they took thousands of times longer. Yes, natural processes account for much more than even our current energy use (last I checked, we churn out about 60 Hiroshima bombs per second). But when you squeeze even a “tiny” overall effect into our window of comfortable habitability, that effect gets magnified very, VERY quickly.