Is the unusually warm weather because of global warming?

Answer 1

Not necessarily. There are millions of factors that can effect local weather. Warmer global temperatures tend to make weather more extreme, so hurricanes get stronger, highs get higher and lows and get lower.

When looking at numbers, you may read things like 'the global temperature is half a degree warmer than in 1920' or something. The degree of change is small, but even that little bit can really screw up the climates to which we are accustomed. The global temperature during the last ice age was only a few degrees cooler than it is today.

Answer 2

Here is part of my answer to a panic stricken question asked about this same subject several minutes ago:

We've had a wet cold winter here in the Pacific Northwest. It has snowed about three times this year in the Seattle area and rained almost every day. Next week temperatures in the mid-teens are expected. Denver has been socked by huge snowstorms a couple of times this year. Calgary, Alberta has seen some of the coldest weather ever recorded for December. Anchorage, Alaska is having record snowfalls. There are places in the Oregon Cascades that have had over two hundred inches of snowfall.

I have a question for you:

Is the weather here unusually cold because of the global cooling that was predicted in the mid-1970s?

Answer 3

For any given date - say, January 5th - past weather data shows us that in different years, the temperature on that day can easily vary by tens of degrees from one year to the next. Global warming has raised temperatures by about half a degree in the past century. That makes it kinda silly to say that every bit of unseasonably warm weather must be caused by global warming.

Global warming is at best a pretty tiny factor in causing "unusually warm weather". Anyone who thinks otherwise will be hard pressed to explain how we can ever have unseasonably cool weather.

Answer 4

In the 60's and 70's Environmentalists were warning of another Ice Age. Now they claim the Earth is Warming, which is it?

Answer 5

in my opinion, sure, i think of so. those "warmer days", and now annual warmth waves, woodland fires, flooding, drought, and greater violent climate types are the end results of our larger pastime international and the everlasting scaling down of forests and exchange with pavement and homes that improve and compound the life of warming, the two on a close by scale (warmth islands of better cities and city aspects) and a international scale (everlasting disappearance of most of the international's glaciers and the accelarated shrinking of the ice caps, maximum exceedingly Greenland and the Arctic Ocean). you do no longer ought to be a scientist to observe everlasting differences, possibly on your section besides , that are no longer going away each time quickly. it somewhat isn't any longer alarmist to declare those issues the two, it somewhat is in basic terms basic reality...

Answer 6

This winter we are experienceing an 'El nino' weather pattern which usually means warm drier weather in the northeast.

Answer 7

I wish it was unusually warm here in Iraq, we're freezing our buns off.

Answer 8

Warm weather

Global warm-ing.

Notice the "warm" in both phrases?

Of course it's because of global warming!

Try to ask a question that doesn't make me go, "duh!" as soon as I read it!

Answer 9

yes, and it will cause more insects & worse storms & coast to flood because the ice shelves are melting

Answer 10

It's el nino again, but CNN won't tell you that.