Why is good weather not blamed on Global Warming?

It has been Beautiful in the desert southwest lately.

It seems that only bad weather events are blamed on global warming. But what about good weather?

How can GW only be responsible for the weather that we don't like?

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DogMan · 61-69, M

Remember, the climate change happening now, has been happening for thousands of
years. We will enter another stage in time where the globe cools like it did in the 1970's
when experts were warning of global cooling.

22Michelle · 70-79, T

@DogMan Climate change has indeed been happening since the beginning of time. What is different now is the speed of change. Previously such changes, unless kicked off by volcanic or asteroid activity, too place of thousands of years. Nature is struggling, and largely failing, to adapt. The earth will survive, whether mankind will remains to be seen.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@22Michelle What is different now is the speed of change. Previously such changes, unless kicked off by volcanic or asteroid activity, too place of thousands of years. Nature is struggling, and largely failing, to adapt. The earth will survive, whether mankind will remains to be seen

I don't believe that at all. Yes it is getting a little warmer. But we WILL adapt. A few years from now it could start getting
colder, like in the 1970's

Trust me, I hate hot weather, I live in southern Nevada.

22Michelle · 70-79, T

@DogMan The 1970's were not a period of vooler temperatures. You're confusing what was localised weather with Global temperatures. The scientific consensus, then and now, was the Planet was warming.
Nb Here in the UK we had some extremely hot summers, but again that's weather fluctuations.

DogMan · 61-69, M

@22Michelle The expert climatologists were claiming we were going into another ice age in the 70's.

I remember being in southern Nevada in 1979 when it snowed 6+ inches and stayed cold enough to stay
on the ground for over a week. I have spent almost 50 years in Las Vegas, and we have never had
anything close to that again.

22Michelle · 70-79, T

@DogMan The ice age claims were based on climate changes throughout earth's history that we were heading towards a period when we could expect a lowering of temperatures. Possibly an ice age. And the "forecast" was based on the science available back in the 1950's and 1960's. The advances in computerisation, satellite technology has allowed the capture of vastly more data, the analysis of the data and far greater accuracy of weather and climate forecasting. To compare current climate science with what was being used 50-60 years is, I have to say, just rather silly.