Is it Global Warming if it's colder than normal??

Question

NOTE: Coldest temps in 2 YEARS. Oh, what will AlGore do about THIS "inconvenient" truth????

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wcom/20061208/we_wcom/bitter_cold_continues

for all you "Global WHINERS" out there, we are STILL in an ICE AGE, an ICE AGE in its waning stage. Just a few years ago, geologically speaking, NYC was under 2 MILES of ice. I should HOPE we are warming up.

An Ice Age is when BOTH polar caps are covered in ice.

Imtd.. if it gets COLDER, how can you call it Global WARMING?? Have you read about the natural cycles that occur? Did you know that Antartica was once a tropical rain forest? That was long before human beings were on this planet. Did you know that termites emit more CO2 than all the cars in the world? Did you know that TREES are a RENEWABLE resource and there are now more trees than in the early 1900's in the US?

Answer 1

Global Warming does not exist, it is just the Earth going through cycles. Its as easy as that.

Answer 2

The inconvenient truth is that we just don't know enough. Another inconvenient truth is that politicians like Gore use whatever they can to scare people into giving them power. If you look at the avererage temperature in the last 100 years, yes, it's going up. But that is an incredibly small chunk of time when you look at the age and history of the world. It would be like you taking temperatures for a 3 hour period and claim that the world is getting warmer or colder based on how things are going this afternoon. Or polling 3 people and saying that they represent the views of 3 million. Or even better, worrying about the position of the sun and it's affect on our daylight and temperature based on a 12 hour period. "Look!!! the Sun is setting!!! Oh no! what should we do!!?? We'll be doomed!!! It will be dark forever!!!"
Take a look at this site: http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/watch/climate_change/change.htm
Look how drastic the changes are over 500,000 years. True, this is proxy data, because we obviously didn't take recordings. But it's a better set of data than 3 people out of 3 million or observing that the world is getting darker because the sun is going away. It seems by this data that it is more likely for a "Global Cooling" era to begin soon (soon being relative to 500,000 years).
So - I ask you - based on a better set of data - Is it worth BILLIONS, maybe TRILLIONS of dollars to try stop the sun from setting? Aren't there much more important things that we could be fixing? Things we actually have good information on?
I'm not saying we shouldn't continue to study it. We should. But let's be honest and fair and stop trying to scare people to get power.
The intellectually honest can see right through it. Unfortunately, there are many people who just believe what they're favorite political party tells them to believe. Not very intelligent. Think for yourselves people.

Answer 3

Global warming is a somewhat misused term. As others have noted in their answers, the earth goes through normal cycles of warming and cooling. However, there is no question that humans and the industrial age are contributing to the current phase of global warming. As we burn coal and other fossil fuels, we are putting CO2 into the atmosphere, which creates a "greenhouse" effect, where heat is trapped with the Earth's atmosphere.

How much of global warming is due to man and how much is just a normal cycle is being hotly debated. Some critics totally dimiss the evidence, while others are ignorant of the uncertainties associated with measuring the human factor.

See this site for some recent debate on these uncertainties:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3569604.stm

Answer 4

Global warming actually does exist. It is gradual but there are still signs of it. Global warming does affect the atmosphere. Ten years ago I could go to the beach in Daytona in the dead of winter. Now it is too cold. Global warming breaks down the protective atmosphere so it will gradually get colder and colder. If our atmosphere is destroyed there is nothing protecting us from the cold of space. Anyone who thinks any differently just need to read more on what is going on.

Answer 5

Global Warming exists, and the melting of the polar ice caps have an adverse effect on the surrounding environment. Just because it is unseasonably cold this time of year does not mean that global warming doesn't exist.

Answer 6

A few days of cold are not going to change the fact that our planet is experiencing global warming. I do not see the winters we experienced of the past. Very little snow for a number of years now.

Answer 7

Global warming throws many natural processes out of order. More heat in the atmosphere means more energy for storms and colder weather as well as heat waves.

Answer 8

Sometimes, when the fluctuation between minima and maxima cross normal bounderies. Taking up median temp., the answer is no.Proof lies in receding snowline and warming of oceans.

Answer 9

yup global warming is a natural cycle of the world. it is said that humans cause it by the left.

Answer 10

No.... in fact the earth cools and warms in various cycles. Silly Al. His speech writers are not doing enough research.