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Originally Posted by Oerets
The 5th graders around here are pretty hip. Get reminded of climate change all the time.
This was another winter without enough snow or ice to get the slides/sleds out. Or have snow days aplenty.....
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Your example is of course anecdotal, and actually seems at odds with NOAA's own data regarding CONUS surface temperature observations spanning the lifetimes of current 5th graders so far.
Between 2005 and 2008 NOAA put into operation a new climate station network called (appropriately) the US National Climate Network (USCRN). This network is considered among the best in the world for reporting accurate and precise surface temperature data.
Here is a plot showing the CONUS annual average temperature (averaged January to December) since the network came online.
First, you can see that the CONUS has been
cooling since 2016, and further, that last year was actually
cooler (on average) than the first two years of this data series.
Of course the average CONUS temperature may not match that of your location, and certainly does not approximate the entire planet; but these data do show that not much has been happening here (meaning the CONUS) temperature wise over at least the 13 years or so.
PS- I joined here against my better judgement, we will see how it goes