Why in the 1930's was the hottest the US has been. Why wasn't it global warming then?

Question

I wanna ask Al Gore this. *cough* dangit im sick. Must be Bush's fault for my cold, huh?

yes it was thr hottest. Death Valley California 136 degrees. Was 100's everywhere in the USA

Answer 1

Actually it was in the middle of the Great Depression,and there was a massive drought in the nation's mid-section.All that hot,dusty,dry air naturally headed east,and states along the East Coast suffered.
Ever heard of The Dust Bowl?

Answer 2

The Earth has had ice ages, they were cooling periods, between them were warming periods. This has been going on for all of Earth’s 4 billion years. This all happened before any of the modern day came into being and will continue after we are gone.

The Earth is going through a pole shift right now. A pole shift is when the magnetic poles swap polarities. During pole shifts the magnetosphere is weaker and more of the Sun’s rays strike the Earth, this causes extra heating of the Earths surface, and makes global warming more pronounced.

These are natural cycles of the Earth. We puny stupid humans can no more stop or even reduce a natural cycle of the Earth, than the man in the moon. This is 9th grade science, and one would think that scientists and politicians would be better educated, but it seems that this not so, and they could remember 9th grade science class too.

This may just may be another smoke and mirrors propaganda campaign to cover our governments lies and con games. There are so many conspiracies running rampant it’s hard to tell which are real and which are just simple stupidity. The idea we can stop global warming IS stupidity at it’s highest form.

Answer 3

It wasn't the hottest it's ever been in the US. It is RIGHT NOW the hottest it's ever been. In a single day in this heat wave, more than 180 US cities broke record high temperatures. You don't look at temperature in your neighborhood, your city, or even your nation to judge a global trend. You use global temperatures. And globally, it's hotter now than it was in the 1930's.

It was Global Warming in the 1930's to a certain extent. Scientists didn't understand it at the time. This trend began in the late 1800 with the industrial revolution.

In the natural cycle of CO2 in the atmosphere, the highest it's ever been prior to the last 1000 years was 300 ppmv. Since 1800 it has increased to 375 ppmv and is projected to be near 450 ppmv next year. That's 50% more CO2 in the atmosphere than the natural cycle has produced.

You tell me why CO2 emissions are nearly double their highest levels of all time and simultaneously, the last five years have been the hottest years in the history of the world - and nearly each of them hotter than the previous?

Do you have explanations for the fact that, right now, we are NOT following the natural cycle?

Do you understand that the average world temperature between the Medieval heat wave (when Greenland was partially exposed) and the last ice age was just over 4 degrees Fahrenheit? And that right now, the average temperature is more than 1.4 degrees hotter than it was when the Greenland glacier receded and that average temperature keeps going up?

You have NO understanding of the science, so you shouldn't even pretend to make fun of something you don't have the ability to comprehend. Before you come back, don't read a couple of articles from website and pretend you know something. Why don't you read articles published in scientific journals, learn something on your own, and then come back and discuss.

Answer 4

it wasn't. you are full of it. the 1930s was not the hottest.

you can see this here graph shows that you are profoundly retarded. in 1999 the hottest year on record was 1998. what have you got?

woz, i'm not going by what the news says, because they are such enthusiastic cassandras they frequently inflate death tolls and what not. i went to noaa, because they are not usually as ridiculous as the press.

i used this article because it shows a graph charting the pattern over time. that is what is incriminating. playing individual years off each other out of context will never make much of a pattern... and it also explains why no one noticed it until there were a few decades of surface measurements to compare.

hands down the only evidence i've seen against global warming is the documented melting of the martian polar ice caps. but even that implies only that we aren't directly or totally responsible for it. we're probably going to be really upset when it happens though, so if there's anything we could do to make it uh... less dramatic, why shouldn't we do that? the earth will probably pull through... but i'm concerned what we'll do. i am very interested in trying to not piss in the pool, especially while some giant ball in the sky does so at the same time.

Answer 5

Because the issue of global warming has not been scientifically proven - and there are two sides to this issue. The earth goes through periodic cold and hot spells that last for a number of years. A long time ago, the entire earth was covered in ice. You are right about the heat in the 1930s. This is not caused by mankind but on changes in the earth and space. Stay cool.

Answer 6

Because now there's glaciers melting so fast that there are literally waterfalls20 or so feet tall rushing with water, along with dead zones in the gulf of mexico, desinigrating ozones, and the ocean's waters have warmed a degree, which were once steady for hundreds of years, setting a dominoe effect towards all species in the ocean and on the land. Besides, you SHOULD be blaming bush. Don't beleive everything the news says. If you were smart and honestly cared about our dying planet, youd do some research on some of the cause and effects of laws, products, oil drilling plants, etc. Bush didnt cause this, weve brought it upon ourselves, and Bush, being the highest and most powerful politician right now, shouldnt just ignore it and hope some other persident or politician does something. Hes just like every one else, trying to dump it on soemone else. Im mad at him for not standing up for America and the planetinstead of following every other politician's stupid decision. So you shouldnt blame ot on science. Because right now, science is the most stable and truthful thing going on. No one can honeslty say that politics are truthful. Politics is all about faking it and looking good and prettending "to care". So you better stop making accusations with no knowledge of whats really going on. I could go on and on, but you're propably so stupid that you're not even considering what im saying. Just remember this - IN POLITICS, NO ONE IS RIGHT AND NO ONE IS WRONG.

Answer 7

The state temp in Fla has steadily gone up over the past 12 years. That's because it has become a big parking lot. You may think it's bullshit but with the loss of trees in the environment I can assure you it's not. There is a green house effect even in your town. Yup, just keep cutting down the trees as the sun keeps beating on the earth and soon all your have is sand. Just like in Irac, seen the pictures. ROCKS. My father used to say, Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Years from no you may not even find that.

Answer 8

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Pew Center on Global Climate research, the 1990s were the hottest decade of the 20th century, and 1998 was the hottest year.

Perhaps it was the hottest in the U.S., but aren't we talking about GLOBAL warming here?

Answer 9

Hey unlce osbert, check the news before you blow off--news reports today reported that while this July was hot, it was not the hottest, and no new records were broken. It was hotter in the 1934.
oh yeah, and Ocean waters in the Atlantic are COOLER this year than last, which means less hurricanes and *oop!* maybe that global warming nonsense is just that...

Answer 10

Didn't know about global warming had to find something else to blame it on, not that was the chief concern. Working and getting and/or staying out of bread lines was of far more importance; and a way to get this country out of the great depression.