Don't Confuse Climate and Weather

Climate and weather are different; don't make the mistake of confusing the two. Climate deals with long-term trends; weather deals with the type of short-term observations you reported.

In Anchorage last week, we had a high of 42 and a low temperature above our average high. That is not evidence of global warming, though. Evidence of global warming would be the numerous glaciers that have receded over a mile in the last 40 years, the areas that had permafrost 10 years ago, but no longer do, and the late freeze-ups and early breakups on rivers and sea ice.

The evidence of global warming might be difficult to observe in many places, but it is very evident in locations where the warming trend has raised temperatures from below 32 to above freezing. The difference is readily observable in the change from water in a solid state to water in a liquid state.

To say that global warming is not occurring denies all of the climatic observations to the contrary.