It’s going to be a chilly Thanksgiving in the Northeast, with near-record cold temperatures in some cities. Which means, of course, that you can expect to get an earful from Uncle Walter over your turkey and stuffing about how global warming is just a hoax. He might bring up sunspots. Or something about Al Gore.
The urge to generalize from chilly fingers to climate denial is common in our supercharged political climate. President Trump seems to weigh in just about any time the mercury dips. (He did again Wednesday evening.)
But if he did have to boil his argument down to just a handful of sentences, he said, it would be this: “Weather is what happens on a day-to-day basis; climate is long-term changes over decades. Even in a warming world, there will be some places that are colder on a day-to-day basis.”
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