As of writing this, many places in the state of Texas are experiencing a very rare climate of well-below-zero temperatures and copious amounts of snow, to the point that a state of emergency has been declared in many places and the supply of water and electricity has been compromised in many households, to the point of it being an outright emergency.
While perhaps not completely unprecedented, this is extraordinarily rare in Texas, which is at the south border of the country and known for its hot climate.
Rather obviously American conservatives are taking this as evidence against global warming, as if this were some kind of proof against it.
Once again, they just can't bother even trying to understand what global warming means and what the climatological model predicts. That's because, ironically, these types of extreme weather conditions at unusual places in the world are things that the global warming model predicts will happen, more and more frequently (and with more and more severity). The Texas weather phenomenon is not evidence against global warming. On the contrary, it's evidence for global warming, because it's precisely what the model predicts. Again ironically, if these things were not happening at all, and climate were the same as always, that would be evidence against global warming.
Conservatives just outright refuse to understand and acknowledge that "global warming" refers to the yearly average temperature of the entire Earth. That is what has had a steeply raising trend over the past decades. The average temperature of the entire Earth raising does not mean that the temperature is always higher than usual at every single location at every single time of year or day. It simply means that the average temperature of the entire Earth during the entire year is raising. Global temperature is not measured by looking that the temperature of one particular place at one particular day. It's measured by taking the temperature of every place during the entire year, and averaging it. That's what has been on a raising trend.
Climate scientists have been predicting for decades that a global raise in temperature will cause climatological extremes to accentuate. Hot places will become hotter, cold places will become colder, hurricanes will become stronger, and unusual weather will become more and more commonplace, and will become more and more extreme the more years pass. Thus, freezing temperatures in Texas conform exactly to these predictions and thus support the climate science.
It's to be expected that over the next upcoming decades the weather in places like Texas will become wilder and wilder, sometimes with record-breaking hot temperatures, sometimes with freezing cold and snowfall. This is the result of global warming.
I can't really understand why American conservatism and climate science denialism go so hand-in-hand. If you see an American conservative, there's like a 99% chance that he will be at a very minimum a global warming skeptic, and quite likely an outright denier.
Heck, the American conservative climate change denialism has started rubbing off even on many moderate centrist, who have been pushed more and more towards conservatism because of current politics. It's almost as if they can't comprehend that American conservatives can be very right on some things, but very wrong on others. It's ok to agree with them on the former and disagree with them on the latter. There's nothing wrong in that.
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