From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Twenty Years Ago, Al Gore Warned Of Imminent Polar Melt
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:50:50 -0600
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Look at this map.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-pLCT8bQAQBdmw?format=png&name=small
-55 °C in Siberia.
+45 °C in Australia.
At the same time. On the same planet.
And I'm supposed to believe that averaging this into a single number called
"global temperature" tells me something physically meaningful?
That's not climate science... that's statistical abstraction dressed up as
reality.
There is no such thing as a global temperature in the way people intuitively
understand temperature. Temperature is local. It depends on latitude, season,
altitude, oceans, clouds, circulation, land cover, and time of day. Averaging
wildly different thermodynamic regimes into one number erases the very physics
that control climate in the first place.
CO² MIGHT factor in the 100s of variables, but not enough to cause a rise in
global temps.
Ask 1940-1980, when temp went down while CO² remained on a steady rise.
SHOW us where CO² was a factor in hotter times:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-1ncM5WMAA-z-p?format=jpg&name=medium
You can calculate a global mean.
You can plot it.
You can build policy around it.
But don't confuse a mathematical construct with a physical state of the
planet.
No ecosystem experiences the global average.
No human lives in the global average.
No storm, drought, heatwave, or cold snap is driven by the global average.
The obsession with a single number exists for one reason: it's easy to
message, easy to scare with, and easy to regulate.
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January:
Historic Snowstorms Sweep Russia
North India's Sharpest Cold In Years
Israel Shivers As Snow Hits Hermon
Turkey Buried
U.S. Arctic Cold Reloads
+ Britain Locks In Higher Power Prices
California Drought-Free
'Polar Vortex' To Wallop US
100% Of Russia Under Snow
Moscow's Heaviest In 56 Years
Blizzards Intensify Along Japan Coast
Denmark Shivers
+ Greenland Warming Follows Wind Patterns, Not Co2
Europe In The Freezer
Juneau's Cold
Northern Asia's Snow And Ice
Saigon Shivers As Rare Cold Grips Southern Vietnam
+ Hockey Sticks Are Statistical Tricks
Scandinavia Breaches -40C
Rare Snow Hits Eastern Morocco
Guatemala Drops Below Freezing
Rare 5C Rains In Delhi As Northern India Shivers
+ Antarctica Shows No Meaningful Warming Since 1979
Cold Pushes Deep Into India
Heavy Snow Inundates Europe
Alaska Locked In Deep Winter
Early Burial For The Rockies
Japan Faces Another Heavy Snow Hit
+ U.S. Cuts Ties With UN Climate Regime
Europe Is Frozen
Juneau Snow Emergency
Greenland Melt 7,000 Years Ago
Anthropogenic CO2 Is A Bit Player
+ Renewables Aren't Cheap
Global Temperatures Down In December
Ice And Snow Disruptions Across Europe
Sierra Turnaround
Arctic Ice Rebounds
Another Average Hurricane Year
Arctic Air Reclaims Northwest
Snowy Europe
Cold Outbreaks Not Caused by Global Warming
Cold And Snow Intensify In Turkey And Syria
Europe Chills
Alaska Ends 2025 Under Historic Snow
Satellites Show Clouds, Not CO2, Driving Earth's Energy Imbalance
Record Snow Buries Lake Louise
Great Lakes Under Record Snow
Miami Shivers
Cold Wave Shuts Tehran
Winter In Europe Tightens Its Grip
Kurdistan Paralyzed By Cold And Snow
Cold Sweeps India
Greenland Gains
Juneau Breaks December Snow Record As Alaska Freezes
South Pole To Set Cold December
Europe To Freeze This Weekend
Sierra Snowpack Recovery
The AMOC Collapse Claim
The Volcanic Trigger Behind The 2023 Tropical Temperature Spike
Australia Shivers
Snow Builds Across Canada
Russia Freezes
Extreme Cold Grips NE China