I often hear from climate change deniers in January and February, because I live in Nebraska and temperatures drop well below zero. They ask, “Where’s your global warming now?” And, since it might be thirty below, with the windchill, I’m too cold to explain that climate change and cold temperatures in the winter aren’t mutually exclusive.

So, of course, I’m not going to make too much of the fact that it’s nearly seventy degrees in Omaha in early January. But I will say that I wonder what my friends who think cold winter temperatures disprove climate change are up to today.

I often hear from climate change deniers in January and February, because I live in Nebraska and temperatures drop well below zero. They ask, “Where’s your global warming now?” And, since it might be thirty below, with the windchill, I’m too cold to explain that climate change and cold temperatures in the winter aren’t mutually exclusive.

So, of course, I’m not going to make too much of the fact that it’s nearly seventy degrees in Omaha in early January. But I will say that I wonder what my friends who think cold winter temperatures disprove climate change are up to today.

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  1. tofias said: It was a balmy 45F here today.
  2. savagemike said: it’s been in the mid-80’s here all week.
  3. rhythm7a said: I live south of Omaha and I’ve heard the same stale climate jokes. The fact that we’re having grass fires in January should be a hint that things aren’t quite right.
  4. manicchill said: It’s 64 in Denver right now, and I was thinking the same thing about friends/family back in Texas. Unfortunately, I feel like a picture of melting ice/snow/slush in January just won’t have the same impact as a lonely polar bear in the Artic…
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