For those in the Northern Hemisphere: Do YOU think its warming up? How far north are you?

Question

I have lived as far north in Canada as 53 parallel. I am now still in Canada but not that far north. Yet at this time of year it is usualy cold and we have more snow. No snow here yet...the praries are dry. Not too cold yet either.

If you have noticed a difference in warming, what was it? Where do you live?

If you have noticed a difference...What do you want to do about that?

Answer 1

It's too late. In the scholarly film with the funny name, "Advertising and the End of the World", this is the analogy used: Imagine a super heavy barge or cruise ship bearing down on the coast. It's miles and miles out. There's still time to turn it or stop it. It gets closer to the coast. It's going to crash if it's not stopped. But, it keeps coming. Even if someone shuts down the engines or puts on the breaks, it's not going to stop right away. There's momentum that keeps the ship bearing down on the coast. So, with such a heavy barge or ship, how soon does it need to start slowing down? When's the point of no return? With global warming, we've passed it already. We must continue to reduce the human factors contributing to the impending changes in global weather and environment. And, we must support scientists and their research in many fields as they struggle to find objective, rational solutions and strategies and breakthroughs to help all life on this planet find a safe way through some of the more disastrous sequle of all these changes coming up. Life goes on.

Answer 2

i know what you mean with the cold. i've been homeless now for a couple years after my igloo melted. this is becoming a serious problem for canadians the homeless rate towards the south is skyrocketing.. . . . sorry had to joke a little. but seriously i am from canada also. in northern alberta in fact and i have noticed milder winters. still colder than what i'd like but definitely not as cold i had seen it when i was younger. personally i don't think it's a bad thing. if the ice caps melt and flood the coastal cities i don't see it being an immediate thing. i would imagine that we will watch them slowly flood over years. in this time we would be forced to rebuild our largest and most influential cities, allowing us to revamp and renew our cultural meccas. so then we can be a hip new planet when suffering from skin cancer and the other joys of a f***ed atmosphere.

Answer 3

I live in Minneapolis, and it STILL hasn't snowed yet. In fact, a couple weeks ago it was 80 degrees. Right now its about 40 degrees outside. Normally at this time if year its around 20 degrees and there's about a foot of snow on the ground. Something really terrible is going on in our world and something has to be done about it. Soon.

Answer 4

Global warming sucks. We used to have cloudy winters without snow. Now, every year there is snow that lasts for 45 minutes! it's getting so hot!

Oh... central Valley in CA, where the average winter temp is 40 +/- 3-6 deg F.

There is nothing that can be done about it.

Answer 5

Well, it snowed on October 12th, and it was freezing. But it was 80 on November 12? Interesting if you ask me, this was in Chicago btw.

Answer 6

Yap, it's normally like Seattle here @ this time of year. And I've seen two days of rain since April.

Man this 'conservative' propaganda guy above me is pissing me off. What is it going to take for you to be convinced? Hard data.. how much hard data do you need after the obvious corrolaries of CO2 rising and global temperature rising?

Skepticism is pretty stupid when the facts are so plain.
Retarded propaganda. I don't even really care that much, but it's obvious you're wrong. wtf.

Answer 7

The receding of glaciers is persuasive evidence that temperatures are increasing. It is not yet established to my satisfaction that this is attributable to man-made causes in general or to atmospheric CO2 level in particular, even though the level is increasing. Attempting to "fix" this possibly non-existent problem would be horribly expensive.