Please state why you feel global warming is causing the recent warm weather this country has experienced?

Question

Many recent answers to weather has related global warming as the cause for the recent warm weather the country, specifically the Northeast, has experienced. What is your basis for this claim?

Answer 1

I think it is possible. However, what I'm seeing right now is that people are blaming EVERYTHING on global warming.

In the 1970s the huge scare was "global cooling".

The planet has been warming since the end of the last ice age, and there was nothing that we did to cause that.

All in all, I'd take the climate models with a grain of salt, as they can't even tell me for sure if it is going to rain today.

Answer 2

Here's the problem:

People seem to be selective in their choice of the weather phenomena to count as evidence to support so-called "global warming." This year, since we've had a mild early winter, all the Henny-Penny's are hurrying to tell the king about "climate change."

When there's a cold hard winter, though, such as we had in the northeast in the years 2002-2005 inclusive, they seem to forget completely. Or, less commonly, it is claimed that a cold hard winter is ALSO evidence of "global warming."

I saw a Yahoo news story that Australia is said to be suffering more from "global warming" than other parts of the world. What was the evidence? One of the pieces of data is that they had some extraordinary summer snow in the higher elevations. But when I ask forlornly, shouldn't summer snow be considered as a point AGAINST "global warming," people look at me as if I'm some sort of holocaust denier.

Perhaps the most remarkable feat achieved by the "global warming" crowd has been to make a lot of ordinary people feel guilty on a pleasant winter day. It was once the case that a mild January day, like today in New York, would make people feel gladness, a bit of respite from the winter blah. Now, people are exhibiting feelings of guilt! Imagine! They're personally guilty that we don't have two feet of snow on the ground!

I think that's something about which to run and tell the king!

Answer 3

I have no firm evidence, but I think it's a combination of global warming and an El Nino year. I heard a weather forecaster mention that this was probably going to be an El Nino year, and it was causing the jet stream to bring warmer air across the midwest and northeast. I'm sure global warming is involved, too. Global warming exists - how else could we have had the unprecedented string of warm years over the last 50 years? None of the historical evidence shows anything like this in all the records and all the physical evidence - IE, ice cores, sediment layers, tree rings, etc.

Answer 4

There is no basis for this claim. Below is a link taking you to a NASA chart showing the temperature change from 1880 to 2005. As you can see this chart shows both yearly mean temps. as well as 5 year mean temps. Since 1880 the earth's temperature has risen less than 7/10 of 1 degree C. See for yourself here:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif There are numerous charts all over the internet showing the same. The fact that people choose to ignore the facts of these charts shows that they have an agenda to convince the masses of something that really is not happening. I'm not sure why they want to deceive those that fall for it, but the fact is they do want to do that.

In fact here are some links to secular scientific articles that the earth was actually warmer in the past than it is today.
http://www.msu.edu/course/isp/203/raeburn_old/fulltext/class9.pdf

And here's an article from a Harvard University study that says: "...scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia declared that the 1990s had been hotter than any other period for 1,000 years. Such claims have now been sharply contradicted by the most comprehensive study yet of global temperature over the past 1,000 years. A review of more than 240 scientific studies has shown that today's temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor are they producing the most extreme weather - in stark contrast to the claims of the environmentalists.
The review, carried out by a team from Harvard University, examined the findings of studies of so-called "temperature proxies" such as tree rings, ice cores and historical accounts which allow scientists to estimate temperatures prevailing at sites around the world.

The findings prove that the world experienced a Medieval Warm Period between the ninth and 14th centuries with global temperatures significantly higher even than today."

The full article is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886197/posts

Answer 5

What we're experiencing is a pause in an uptrend. From here, we can't be sure where temperature will go. The cycle? Sunspots. Temperatures do not track exactly with sunspots, but as the 11 year cycles get closer together and larger numbers of spots, temperatures tend to get warmer. As the cycles spread (or stop) temperatures tend to get colder. You can try to explain this away, but this correlation works better than anything else we know. We don't have to pretend to know how it works, it just does. If it stops working, I'll happily admit that I was incorrect.

Answer 6

I don't feel global warming is causing the recent warm weather this country has experienced.

Because there's no such thing as 'global warming'.

Answer 7

Global warming is not just caused by something hanging up there; it is the result of recent rapid progress all around the world coupled with an equally ever-increasing population with the resultant repurcussions! What goes up must come down!

Answer 8

Because global warming makes for warmer weather, otherwise they would call it global cooling.

Answer 9

the only possible answer would be - I am misinformed or I buy into pseudo-scientific theories