Environment - November 2007

Has the average ambient temp of the earth and the average temp of the oceans gone up or down in the last 50 years and by how much

2007-11-03 04:31:08 · 20 answers · asked by unowho 2 in Global Warming

will it be a really cold and snowy winter

2007-11-03 04:29:33 · 3 answers · asked by spacy200760 1 in Other - Environment

I'd like to provide a bit of food for thought. Let's not weigh the question down with all the merits of your argument one way or the other, let's set aside all the wonderful names that have emerged on all sides, and consider the words of two widely embraced people, both of whom left us years ago:

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead

If we work together we can find common ground, don't you think?

2007-11-03 04:18:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

is it possible that the earth is going through a phase that it has been through before??

and even if it is tru the uk hardly contributes to any of the global warming its china and the US!

2007-11-03 03:07:00 · 18 answers · asked by swnd_az_a_pwnd 1 in Global Warming

Does anyone know of any peer reviewed papers associated with the methodology of the PMOD corrections applied to the ACRIM composite?

Quite often AGW alarmists provide arguments from websites and blogs that indicate that PMOD is the more correct choice for a TSI dataset. Alternatively there are websites and blogs as well as peer reviewed literature that indicate PMOD is invalid, and any analysis or conclusions about climate drawn from PMOD might subsequently be invalid as well. Without peer reviewed literature supporting PMOD, it is hard to take the alamists opinion on PMOD seriously, when the data does not conform to what is known.

A website that supports ACRIM.
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_originals/the_unruly_sunne_cannot_be_ruled_out_as_a_cause_of_recent_climate_variation.html

A Peer reviewed paper that supports ACRIM.

http://www.acrim.com/Reference%20Files/Secular%20total%20solar%20irradiance%20trend%20during%20solar%20cycles%2021%E2%80%9323.pdf

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2007-11-03 02:57:19 · 3 answers · asked by Tomcat 5 in Global Warming

Do you hide or watch it ? I hide and cover my ears ! My neighbours stand in the garden and watch it, dont know how they can do it! Just curious to see what everyone else does.

2007-11-03 02:44:34 · 30 answers · asked by Crazy Diamond 6 in Other - Environment

Okay this may be a ridiculous question, but curiosity mixed with honestly not knowing raised enough questioning so I had to ask. (Things you think about while driving home after working an overnight. lol)
But then does it truly matter because it would take more time to get to our destination?

2007-11-03 00:36:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

This is really starting to get old. Look, here's all the data proving that the surface station data is reliable.

Here is a plot of the supposed "good" stations (red, CRN12), "bad" sations (green, CRN5), and GISS data, originally linked by EnragedParrot:

http://www.inturnsoftware.com/downloads/crn12_crn5_giss.gif

A discussion of surfacestations.org data and deception:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/surface-stations/

A graph of surface and troposphere temperature measurements, the latter taken by satellite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Satellite_Temperatures.png

And a discussion of the mistaken assumptions in questioning the surface station data courtesy of RealClimate:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/07/no-man-is-an-urban-heat-island/

The denier argument consists of - "look, this temperature station is next to a garbage can. That must be bad!"

Can the AGW doubters please drop this ridiculous argument now? It just undermines your position.

2007-11-02 18:14:34 · 13 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Just intrested in which season people enjoy the most. Can you tell me your opinion??

2007-11-02 16:38:13 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Anthony Watts, a broadcast meteorologist, is leading an effort to photograph weather stations and document their quality. He has now photographed 1/3 of USHCN weather stations and found that only 15% of them meet the minimum requirements of the NOAA. The remaining 85% have a significant warm bias.
http://surfacestations.org/

See Watts presentation to climate scientists here:
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/UCAR-slides/index.html

Steve McIntyre, a leading statistician in climate science, did a reconstruction of US temps using only good quality stations identified by Watta. McIntyre learned that the warmest years in the US were 1934, then 1921, then 1998 and then 2006.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2145

If natural climate variation in the 1920s and 1930s caused warmer temperatures than we have experienced in the last 20 years, why is there any reason to be scared of global warming?

Why are the alarmists so slow to learn the facts?

2007-11-02 16:31:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

If all Americans gave up on any one of the following big four, we could reduce man-made global warming by almost 1%. Which activity would YOU be willing to give up?

a. Using the internet
b. Watching television
c. Driving a car
d. Eating meat

2007-11-02 14:23:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-11-02 13:54:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I'm from Ontario, Canada. I work at an organic farm as a farm hand. We raise organic beef, chickens, and pigs.

Where you from? What do you farm? Do you like to buy organic farm produce more than produce at grousry stores?

2007-11-02 13:38:10 · 4 answers · asked by Stony 4 in Global Warming

Hello, everybody. I'm a brazilian guy and I'm still learning how to speak (to write, in this case) English. So, please, don't care if you find an error here. My question is: the United States, for being one of the most powerful country in the world, is also one of the most poluing one. In Kyoto Protocol, the U.S.' government didn't signed it because it would affect the country's bussiness. In my opinion, the life in Earth is much more important than money. What do you think about this situation? What do you think that must be done to change all this? Give me your opinions.

2007-11-02 13:21:27 · 19 answers · asked by Dan 2 in Global Warming

Grapes grow on a vine and apples grow on a tree so what is the thing called that wheat grows on?

2007-11-02 12:44:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Atlanta are 3 of the 4 fastest growing cities in the USA.

http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/americas_fastest_growing_cities.html

But all of these are having water problems. Las Vegas is in the middle of a desert and looking for new water sources, the southwest is in the middle of a 10 year drought which is forecast to last another 90 years, and Georgia is in the middle of a drought and is forecast to run out of water in 80 days.

To be fair, Georgia's problem is a new one, but why are these cities with serious water problems exacerbating the problem by continuing to grow rapidly? Is it the fault of people moving to the cities, of the fault of the cities themselves for not limiting growth?

2007-11-02 12:21:06 · 16 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Conservation

Please don't answer if you don't know, but if you have a guess that you think is right, then go ahead. I don't want just yes or no answers.

EXPLAIN

2007-11-02 12:07:57 · 3 answers · asked by Ananymos 3 in Other - Environment

i am in the fith grade,and we are each doing a report on a tribe of indians and i choces the chickasaws.well we have to find out what thier enviroment was like.sadly i have not found that. so i need YOU to help me find thst answer please.

2007-11-02 10:56:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

and do something about it and now there is still hold outs on taking responsibility for global warming? Do they really think you can continue to pump pollutants into the air/water and it won't have any effect on the atmosphere? I'd like them to prove that, it's only common sense.

2007-11-02 10:30:47 · 11 answers · asked by Ktcyan 5 in Global Warming

2007-11-02 09:52:48 · 14 answers · asked by Greenbang.com 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

The first state of denial was that it's not happening. Most all "skeptics" have dropped that, because of data.

The guy who takes pictures of surface stations has a bad problem. He can't show any difference in the data between undeniably well located stations, and arguably bad ones. The data shows exactly the opposite, that the differently situated stations say the same thing. He's like a tourist, going around giving a boring slide show.

In the satellite data, ACRIM versus PMOD is an unimportant discussion, unless your analysis picks two arbitrary points on a continuous curve and draws a straight line through them, ignoring the rest of the data. In science, that's just not acceptable.

The next stage was that it isn't mostly caused by us. The problem with that, is that the contribution from man made greenhouse gases is now so strong, you can't explain the data any other way. Respectable skeptics like Lindzen and Christy have moved on.

2007-11-02 09:22:01 · 12 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

Well i know they did find a couple of errors in An Inconvenient Truth but so what? They only want to spread the news about what could happen to our planet if we don't do something.

And plus Al Gore is an EX politican so i don't want people saying its a political scam.

2007-11-02 08:37:16 · 14 answers · asked by ♥ Pompey and The Red Devils! 5 in Global Warming

. I have a dog, the one or two owners that don't clean up get us all a bad name. Also my local park - clear in the morning, strewn with cans, fast food packaging etc most evenings.

2007-11-02 08:24:42 · 16 answers · asked by ? 6 in Other - Environment

thanks for any answers on how much energy do we produce by ourselves and machines and everything we use in a day? if you mention the sources and values of each source you make me so pleased

2007-11-02 08:19:15 · 2 answers · asked by elnasz 1 in Green Living

affecting us for our everyday routine??

2007-11-02 08:11:30 · 13 answers · asked by angel 6 in Conservation

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b2k98YLSnk

2007-11-02 08:07:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

do u know any web sites where i can find info on thailands animals?????

2007-11-02 07:34:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

I want to purchase a vehical and want a gasoline alternative

2007-11-02 07:21:58 · 2 answers · asked by mvgeffen 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

What's going to happen? I've read that the UK could get colder as the Earth gets warmer, true? Can someone explain why?

Also, this summer's flooding in the UK- direct consequence of global warming, or just shoddy government building extensively on floodplains?

Lastly, how much of the UK will be underwater due to global warming? Will it happen, or is it just science-fiction??

2007-11-02 07:07:46 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-11-02 06:55:15 · 8 answers · asked by Greywolf 6 in Other - Environment