Why This May Be the Warmest Christmas of Your Lifetime
Does the warm weather have something to do with climate change?
Just as Senator Inhofe's snowball did not actually disprove that humans are altering the Earth's climate, wearing shorts on Christmas Day in New York doesn't necessarily mean that we're hurtling toward our doom. Experts generally agree that the strong El Niño and the polar vortex are the main causes for our mild winter. That led several outlets to declare that there's
no connection to global warming, so we
shouldn't be stressed about our parka-free December.
The National Weather Service's Mike Halpert
told NPR that if climate change is involved
"it's probably fairly insignificant at this point."