Global warming! I'm sat in the north of England waiting for a heat wave, can't wait for it to warm up a bit

Question

Do you think we should keep filling the kettle to the top even when we are only making one brew? after all, use more energy and we will get better weather won't we? I need to get a bit of colour in my face and a bit of global warming may just do the trick, what do you think?

Answer 1

Me too!This man made CO2 warming up the planet is a complete load of nonsense.Man made CO2 comprises only one percent of atmospheric greenhouse gases and that after 250 years of industrialisation.I like the warming of the seasons and can remember the winter of 62/63 when the temperature remained below freezing even at mid-day for 3 months.My enduring memory of childhood is the cold,thank goodness it's gone.Infallablejeff.

Answer 2

When global warming hits, the ice on Greenland melts. That changes the salinity of the North Atlantic. That interferes with ocean currents that warm England.

The results:

You get very cold. England's agriculture is ruined. You pay a lot more for food.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/05mar_arctic.htm

Appealing prospect? That's why your government signed the Kyoto treaty, trying to prevent or at least reduce global warming.

Global warming doesn't mean we all get nice and toasty. It means massive disruptions to climate which will really hurt agriculture. Drought, floods, even freezing.

Answer 3

Yeah Game on. Maybe it won't matter if the unpredictable effects of global warming include, massive droughts, famines, loss of plants and animals, increase in malaria in the UK, and an increase in sea level by 100s of metres, because hey, it'll be a few degrees warmer (on average globally). Genius.

Why don't we test the limits of this experiment by increasing our emissions as much as possible? With a bit of luck we can get a runaway greenhouse effect just like on Venus - wouldn't it be great to do something so world changing by just drinking cups of tea?!

Answer 4

Earth is already showing many indications of world climate replace. • popular temperatures have climbed a million.4 tiers Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the international when you consider that 1880, a lot of this in modern-day a lengthy time period, in accordance to NASA's Goddard Institute for area study. • the speed of warming is increasing. the twentieth century's very last 20 years were the hottest in four hundred years and likely the warmest for countless millennia, in accordance to a variety of of climate study. And the United international locations' Intergovernmental Panel on climate replace (IPCC) comments that 11 of the previous 12 years are between the dozen warmest when you consider that 1850. • The Arctic is feeling the consequences the most. popular temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and jap Russia have risen at two times the global popular, in accordance to the multinational Arctic climate impact evaluation document compiled between 2000 and 2004. • Arctic ice is promptly disappearing, and the area would have its first thoroughly ice-loose summer time by using 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already plagued by the sea-ice loss. • Glaciers and mountain snows are promptly melting—as an celebration, Montana's Glacier nationwide Park now has in trouble-free words 27 glaciers, as against one hundred and fifty in 1910. in the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come per week earlier in spring and freezes start up per week later. • Coral reefs, that are noticeably mushy to small differences in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in accordance with rigidity—ever recorded in 1998, with some parts seeing bleach charges of 70 %. professionals assume those sorts of activities to extend in frequency and intensity in the subsequent 50 years as sea temperatures upward thrust. • An upsurge in the quantity of severe climate activities, jointly with wildfires, warmth waves, and robust tropical storms, is likewise attributed partly to climate replace by using some professionals.

Answer 5

I'm afraid Bob is right. The temperature warms up and the Gulf Stream that keeps this country warm will shut down, plunging us into freezing temperatures. The UK is at the same latitude as Canada, so we will get severely cold winters with lots of snow.
So, keep down the CFC emissions, that's what I say.

Answer 6

I've been saying this for ages, if global warming means that it wont be so frigging cold I wish it'd get its skates on, the mentals have been telling us this for years but its still freezing - and blowing a right bloody gale up in't north.

Answer 7

Five chins, I'm sat in the North of England, and I feel the same way as you!

Answer 8

We get warmer weather up north, sorted. The Londoners all drown, sounds good to me, the sooner the better.

Answer 9

Empty all your aerosols, turn on all the lights, go outside and fart like hell!
I am in the North East too!
Just look for the house with all the lights on, and me in the garden......lol

Answer 10

Hey, it's nice here in Chicago.
No snow!