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Originally Posted by Pinner
No comfort to the poor folks just south of there experiencing the coldest/snowiest winter in a long time. water mains are freezing 
-13 f = -25c |
So some people are experiencing the coldest/snowiest winter in a long time.. how many other people are experiencing a normal winter? Or a moderate winter? or a warm winter? You read about the coldest ones in the news and put that in your mind as a data point about climate. But that flawed reasoning, because you aren't taking into account the other people with normal or warm winters. Or the summers on the other side of the planet.
The news filters so you only hear extraordinary circumstances, not all the ordinary ones.
If "Area X is having extremes in weather" is an argument that seems meaningful in the question of AGW being accurate or not, then that's a very big sign that the one who thinks its meaning needs to do a lot more learning before thinking they're in a position to be able to form a meaningful conclusion.