Do you think that the current heat wave in the U.S. is having has anything to do with Global Warming?

Question

And if so how are in what ways? Please be specific and give as much detailed information as you can. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

yea i think so too. as we continue to trap hazardous greenhouse gasses in the air the ave temp of the earth is rising and rising. the whole country is locked in a heatwave and the max temps get hotter and hotter. this will eventually lead to hotter temps the farther north you go. thus melting the polar ice caps...buy a boat.

Answer 2

In a general sense, possibly -- but we can't know.

Global warming is MUCH more complicated than the media makes it sounds. Their lean to the Right is such that in general the mass media makes a hash of anything similar.

Global warming has several effects --

1. An upwards incline in average aggregate world wide temperatures -- we seem to be having that and have had for some time. Longitudinal temperature charting reveals a steady upward incline globally since about the time we started using petrochemicals.

2. A change in weather patters which includes fewer gentle rains (leading to increased desertification in some areas) and more violent storms (leading to increased flooding and mudslides -- more wind damage and possibly more lightning damage. ) Hotter hots and colder colds as well, as the earth tries to equalize. I leave it up to the individual to decide whether or not we have been seeing that. I happen to think we have, and will continue to --- the increase is particularly evident in the patterns of oceanic heating and cooling.

3. Shrinking of polar ice caps and a rise in average ocean level. This is not a matter of opinion, we KNOW this is happening.

Now, in the past, under certain circumstances there have been significant climate shifts -- global warming and cooling that had nothing to do with humanity. In this particular case however, logic seems to indicate that we are probably seeing global warming as a human effect.

So, is THIS particular heat wave in THIS particular country the result of global warming? Not in a direct sense. Are heat waves like this one, or worse than it more likely than they would be without global warming, everywhere on the earth? I would say yes.

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Answer 3

No, global warming isn't the issue. It;s been hot all across the country before. Plenty of times. Global warming is just a media hype.

We probably are headed for an ice age, but it will take thousands, maybe millions of years before it becomes a problem. People are concerned about global warming becuase industries are producing chemicals that harm the o-zone layer, causing more sun rays to hit the earth. Though the science behind this may be true, there is no cause for concern. One volcano eruption probably causes more damage to the atmosphere than all cars in America over the span of a year. The o-zone is probably the healthiest it's been in a long time.

Why are people afraid? Media hype caused by enviornmentalists. The theory is that the increased temperature will cause the ice caps to melt, causing the ocean to rise, and dramatically effecting the earth's land by flooding it. the o-zone's been in horrible shape long ago in history and this never happened, so why are people afraid now?

Answer 4

First of all you have to separate global warming from man-made global warming. The planet is one degree warmer now than it was 20 years ago. Is that global warming? I guess so, technically. But there is nothing that ties Man to the warming.

The planet is a living, breathing thing. It warms and cools in cycles. In the 1970s, people were warning about global cooling and the next ice age.

And if Man's industrialization, and the emitting of more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, is causing global warming (as is claimed by climatological clowns), then why is it that the industrial revolution started in the 1800s and yet over a hundred years later we were being warned about an ice age? And now, all of a sudden, we're supposedly causing global warming?

The planet is a bit warmer, and it might stay that way for awhile, and that might even cause some problems for the planet's inhabitants. But the warming is not caused by Man, and there's nothing we can do to prevent it.

Answer 5

Absolutely. The jet stream shows. A few months ago a good article in Time magazine about global warming.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. It's the middle of July and its always going to be hot. Now, if it was like this for a straight two months, that would be different. Do you remember last Year? Every day higher than normal and dry as a bone.

Answer 7

It's probably just that armageddon thing. Nothing to worry about.