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truedelphi

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16. Oneof the big problems in debunking this is
Mon Dec 23, 2013, 12:24 AM
Dec 2013

that the root statement could be correct.

Since in the summer the weather is getting much warmer, but then in the winter, it is getting seriously colder, the two cancel each other out. (For instance, here in Lake County Calif., extreme cold of more than 5 degrees a day is averaged out by the 5 degree higher daily temps in the summer.)

So you need to bring the argument back to the basics: that there are record heavy duty weather catastrophes occurring, in terms of drought, in terms of record cold weather in winter, and record warm weather in the summer.

The weather is simply much more problematic than at any other point in modern history. Even tornadoes are behaving differently. We recently had a November weekend in which some 26 tornadoes hit the Mid West. I defy anyone to show me any weekend in November in the 1960's or 1970's or 1980's when this happened! And that weekend, the Chicago land area had a whole slew of those funnels hitting the area. It used to be that Chicago tornadoes didn't happen but once every five years! And never in November.

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