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  1. Didn't realise until lately just how much denial is  still out there.

    This was an article  in fb that got over 1000 laughing emojis. With one comment in the comment section getting over 400 likes.  Really makes me angry seeing this type of denial. 

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  2. Got interested in the weather in the first place when I was a kid growing up in the 80s due to the winter season.  Nowadays even weeks before the end of winter I often look forward to spring due to the lack of wintery type weather during winter.  Our winters have become so bland and boring overall. I have lost alot of faith in winters at this stage. But I will still hope beyond hope that going into next winter and any winter that it might deliver something even though my expectations will be very low.

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  3. The biggest problem for those that deny climate change is a deep mistrust of politicians and the media on any issue.  Unfortunately climate change is a victim of this mistrust.  The more evidence that is given the more they see it as more lies and a kind of dogma and anyone who believes it is being brainwashed etc. I think the recession over a decade ago is partly responsible for mistrust.  The richer getting richer poor getting poorer. Since then the cost of living gone up aswell etc. From that point of view I can understand their mistrust. They see it as a form of control. 

    Then there  is their old argument that climate has always changed and that humans aren't responsible for the current situation. 

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  4. Think the weather the last yr is   down to climate change and  El Niño . Perhaps worth mentioning the Hunga Tonga eruption from December 2021.Perhaps all 3 have led to a perfect storm for the last while. So dont know if its the new normal. I doubt it . I would hope things will get a bit better in the next yr or so. But it is clear the overall direction of travel we are heading. 

  5.  CryoraptorA303

    Have to say I'm worried about what the summer has in store for the Northern hemisphere. El Niño lag effect + the background warming etc.  Wouldn't be at all surprised for Europe to see its first 50c.  With the crazy weather around the globe in 2023. This yr is the one I've been worried about the last number of months.

  6. At the end of the day anyone wrote off this winter back in September wasn't exactly wrong.  Despite some of the factors favouring a decent winter. The models , teleconnections and some ramping that went along with it. I thought this winter would be rubbish anyway regardless of September due to El Niño. But the very warm September made me even more convinced.  Though even I got  a bit sucked into some of the charts and rampings earlier in the winter.  Thinking  maybe I might be surprised. Nope should have listened to my original thinking. 

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