Do you think that the intense heat wave we're having is related to global warming?

Question

Or is it just a coincidence? This question is really perplexing me.

Answer 1

probably

Answer 2

I don't believe that the current intense heat experienced by a significant number of places in the United States is necessarily due to global warming or is it a coincidence.

Global warming is a complex of factors that is more a matter of computer modeling than it is to practical experience. Heat indexes have risen and been reduced throughout the ages, and this time is no exception. I can recall what was termed a "heat wave" during the 1950s when unusual temperatures were scored in some major metropolitan areas where heat can become "trapped" in a sense by skyscrapers. Chicago, where I lived at the time was a pressure cooker. No one ever heard of global warming back then, and, though it may not only be a new phenomena, heat like we're having now seems more natural and cyclical than it does the hand of man.

Weather is not so coincidental. Rather it is the result of our climate; that is, the range of usual weather patterns, movement and heat or cold of the atmosphere surrounding us and above us on earth. Meteorologists view weather as largely fluid, as if it were a body of water even moving and shifting across geographic areas. They apply similar hydro-graphic methods to it to predict what it will do; yet it is ever changing, shifting and flowing across the globe. The many factors that combine to make our weather are not a matter of coincidence.

Answer 3

Global Warming is a trend. A trend is the accumulation of events - like the heat wave this summer. If you only looked at this year, you wouldn't have a trend. But if you look at many years you can see if there is a pattern.

The best scientists in the world have been studying these trends for 50 years. They can look at ice in glaciers and in Antarctica and measure the amount of oxygen that was in the atmosphere over time and that tells you how hot or cold the planet was on average over the years. From this they have determined what the normal cycles are. They have also determined that over the last 30 years, we have surpassed the normal cycle and our weather is in uncharted territory.

When you consider that the 10 hottest years ever recorded by humanity have been in the last 15 years, you have to admit that this trend is not a theory but a fact - especially when you also consider that hurricanes are getting more powerful (KAtrina & Rita) and hurricanes get their energy from warm ocean water. The warmer the water, the more powerful the hurricanes. For the first time in history - that we know if - Brazil was hit by a hurricane last year. It was thought that hurricanes could not form in the South Atlantic but now they are because the ocean is getting warmer.

Also keep in mind that droughts are getting more severe in some parts of the world while other areas are getting severe flooding.

Thus, one summer, by itself, you cannot tell. But when you think about last summer - which was also very hot, and the one before that which was also hot, can you say that this summer is indeed the hottest one you remember? I can. Global warming is real and we need to do something about it!

Answer 4

We had a similar weather pattern in 1989. It followed a hurricane in Britain the autumn before. There are a number of events that are possibly a result of global warming, but we need to be careful of turning the real threat into a gameshow. It is very tempting to point to any anomole, and say, "There! Global Warming" The question you have just asked will help to keep that from happening. We need people like you, with analytical mindsk to help prevent a total disaster.

Answer 5

how could it not be related? the question is, what is the cause of global warming? and is global warming a result of what goes on here or what goes on in the cosmos? When has the earth ever had a static temperature range? Let's see? Ice age. Population. Global warming. Hmmm. How did the earth move from Ice Age to not Ice Age without the help of Henry Ford?

Greater forces are certainly at work and global warming is a reasonable concern but not one that is reasonably controlled in our global village of consumption, unless you don't want a job to feed your children - I guess you could grow potatoes in your flower box.

Answer 6

Absolutely. Sources include National Geographic, Tom Brokaw, Al Gore, NASA, Time Magazine, the BBC Television, the Scripps Oceanic Institute, and well, so many more. Does anyone besides W not believe that there is global warming and that the USA is at least 40% responsible?

Answer 7

or because it's mid-july?

scientists are doing a good job at demonstrating that global warming exists, and letting us know what the indicators might be. please be careful not to undo their hard work by confusing science with pseudo-science. day to day weather patterns are not indicative of global warming. now a bunch of people on here are saying "of course the hot weather is the result of global warming", which is not scientifically true, and everyone who disagrees with environmentalists will disprove these claims by arguing that it was also this hot on july 15th 10 years ago. then the environmentalists look wrong and more people feel they can argue against global warming.

Answer 8

There's no such thing as global warming. That's just a lie cooked up by Al Queda to keep us in fear and prevent us from being able to live our lives the way that we want to. Beware those evil-doers.

Answer 9

No, absolutely not...And the melting Ice Caps are just Kismet.
Of course it is, silly. Don't be suprised by drought in the near future.

Answer 10

No, its a cycle.

It's July,by the way.

Answer 11

yep