Perhaps someone can explain how--- in the midst of sub-zero temperatures raging through the midwest of North America--- this whole global warming thing is supposed to work?
I went to start my car, and it's lips were so frozen, it couldn't even form an "r." The poor little guy could only muster an "uh" before finally turning over.
Originally posted by FreakyKBHits the average temperature that counts.
Perhaps someone can explain how--- in the midst of sub-zero temperatures raging through the midwest of North America--- this whole global warming thing is supposed to work?
I went to start my car, and it's lips were so frozen, it couldn't even form an "r." The poor little guy could only muster an "uh" before finally turning over.
if for example the people of chile felt it was too cold, they could try increasing their greenhuse gases to heat the planet up, but the people in kenya would want it to cool down, so they might leave their fridge doors open and then where would we be?
see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/science/02cold.html
Just got back from a week on the Caribbean coast of Yucatan. Here it is now 15 degrees F. Much too cold for me. I'm all in favor of global warming. My beach house on the Atlantic is 3 blocks back from the sea -- I've always wanted beachfront ...
The Wall Street Stock Market crashed three times in October 1929. Each was worse than the preceding one, so only the last crash is remembered. So it will be with the warming over the past decade: it will be forgotten in 2025 after ten more record high averages are set interspersed with the present (and probably another) two-three year cooling period.
When you boil water, the temperature rises steadily and never drops. When you put soup in the microwave, you need to stir occasionally to heat it evenly throughout. The whole warms, but there are cold spots. After two minutes, it will melt an ice cube.
You cannot bring only the arithmetic of first year grammar school maths to a problem in calculus and expect your proof to pass muster.
Originally posted by KazetNagorraPerhaps it's a misleading term (especially considering that one possible outcome of 'global warming' is for the Humboldt Current to go on the blink, changing England's climate to something more like Newfoundland's). Even so, the region I live in has been getting hotter and drier for several years.
Well, it's pretty obvious that "global warming" in no way implies that the Earth should heat up every year.
Originally posted by EladarAny natural 30 year warming/cooling cycle is irrelevant to man-made global warming caused by man-made CO2 emissions.
For going on two years now, the earth has actually been cooling. The earth goes through 30 year cycles. We've come off a warming cycle and have entered a cooling cycle.
There is an annual cycle of cooling -England is at the moment in the grip of the annual cooling cycle; it is called winter.
What does this currently running annual cooling cycle tell us about whether the average global temperature will probably go up or down over the next, say, 120 years -answer; nothing.
What does a currently running 30 year cooling cycle tell us about whether the average global temperature will probably go up or down over the next, say, 120 years -answer; nothing (and tells us nothing for the same reason -it is irrelevant).
In early morning I venture out onto the plains of death valley totally ignoring the prediction that it is going to get too hot and that I should stay in the shade. The temperature slowly climbs as the early morning progresses but then a short breeze makes me feel cooler for a few moments -thus I conclude that the scary predictions that it is going to get too hot are just a myth 😛 -and so I stay in the sun like a dummy and fry 😛
I hope that the human race will not be so stupid as to make the same mistake.
We had colder than normal temperatures the first part of December, and record snowfall beginning December 17: the most ever in a 24-hour period, the most ever in a calendar month, and we're only a few inches shy of the most ever in a winter season. The last two weeks of December gave us six feet of snow.
This year's weather, like Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans a few years ago, like the drought that the entire American West may still be in the midst of, ...are local manifestations of global climate change. Weather aberrations--cold and hot, dray and wet--will become more common, more severe.
I expect that this year's snow records will not remain the record for long.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI thought everyone was convinced that we were in poo because the Northwest passage is navigable and relatively ice free. The arctic has shed so much ice, who knows what the effects will be. All I know is that people should not get hung up about global warming as the only outcome of anthropogenic activity.
Perhaps it's a misleading term (especially considering that one possible outcome of 'global warming' is for the Humboldt Current to go on the blink, changing England's climate to something more like Newfoundland's). Even so, the region I live in has been getting hotter and drier for several years.
Its the whole irreversible climate change that will adversely affect you where you live and provide weather outcomes most uncharacteristic for your neck of the woods.
Originally posted by WulebgrI live awful close to the American West. (Arizona) and we have had well over average rainfall. No drought here in the desert.
We had colder than normal temperatures the first part of December, and record snowfall beginning December 17: the most ever in a 24-hour period, the most ever in a calendar month, and we're only a few inches shy of the most ever in a winter season. The last two weeks of December gave us six feet of snow.
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I expect that this year's snow records will not remain the record for long.
Surely hurricanes and drought can not only be caused by climate change?
I'm not one to argue that man isn't causing some degree of warming, but any theory must be verifiably false, or it's a leap of faith, not a scientific theory. Some proponents sure seem to say that everything is proof the theory is true....
Originally posted by WulebgrAnd you can't get valid results from computer models designed to produce a given result.
The Wall Street Stock Market crashed three times in October 1929. Each was worse than the preceding one, so only the last crash is remembered. So it will be with the warming over the past decade: it will be forgotten in 2025 after ten more record high averages are set interspersed with the present (and probably another) two-three year cooling period.
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Global warming is a quasi religious matter, linked to politics and global power, not science.