http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSPEK16157020080204?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
"CHENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century.
Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival -- the only opportunity many people have for a holiday all year.
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The China Meteorological Administration said the weather was the coldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces, going by the total number of consecutive days of average temperature less than 1 degree Celsius (33.8 degrees Fahrenheit)."
Originally posted by zeeblebotAustralia had record heat in 2007; now China is having a record cold spell. In Greenland, people are shooting dogs and growing vegetables. I don't know what to make of all this, but I need something to attach myself to, so I'll Google up an opinion. This one's convincing enough:
well, global warming doesn't always make things warmer, sometimes it makes things colder.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289
So which hypothetical do you prefer, global warming or a mini Ice Age?
Originally posted by zeeblebot...and it doesn't always cause drought, sometimes it causes flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and well, anything we want to attribute to what we used to just simply refer to as "the weather."
well, global warming doesn't always make things warmer, sometimes it makes things colder.
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterTell me more about this, "The Weather." 🙂
...and it doesn't always cause drought, sometimes it causes flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and well, anything we want to attribute to what we used to just simply refer to as "the weather."
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The main problem as I see it with this 'Global warming' or perhaps better described 'Climate change' is that the changes that it causes conflict with what people have become used to, where populations are located. Whether it be rising sea levels causing flooding in coastal areas, where lots of people live, whether it be drought in Australia, or flooding in say India. Things are changing, and it will take time money and effort to adapt to it, climate change in my mind expands this problem, as it is a large contributing factor to change in weather patterns, which disrupts, and in some cases destroys the situation for the people in a given area (rising sea levels for low lying islands for example).