does anyone think its weird that we are having a cold global warming ?

Answer 1

i know! because usually when there is global warming the weather is hotter not colder. we can all now see that global warming is just a bunch of crap.

and to all you people that say it is just a short term of an unusually cold climate, i think global warming is just short term of an unusually hot climate.

Answer 2

Actually the temperature of the earth has increased less than 7/10 of 1 degree (C) from 1880 to 2005. That is an increase of about 1 degree (F) in 125 years. You may choose to believe that is global warming or you may not. Source: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif There are numerous charts all over the internet showing the same. Some say that 1 degree is enough to impact the global climate, others say it's not. Most proponents of global warming think the earth's temperature has risen much more than that and don't even know that it has only risen by 1 degree. But the charts do not lie as do the proponents on both sides of this issue. The average temperature in the Antarctica is 109 degrees below zero. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Climate It seems to me 108 below (one degree warmer) is still pretty cold and not enough to melt anything. But there are those that say it will.

Back in the '70s all the hype was about global COOLING and another ice age was coming. I remember that they blamed pollution for that too. They said that all the pollution was darkening the skies and not as much sun was coming through so the earth was cooling off. It took many years to discover that they were mistaken and it was all just hype. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling So when someone says, "the sky is falling" don't believe everything you hear on either side of the issue. There are Spin Doctors galore out there.

Most of the time people will form an opinion and not really be informed about the subject with which they become so opinionated about. So it's best that you not form your opinions from other's opinions, (as in this forum) but on the facts presented. (Many do not provide any proof or links to prove their point, just their opinion.) With that said we do have a responsibility to do our part by doing whatever is within your power to keep our planet alive and well.

I hope that helps...

Answer 3

"Global Warming" is possibly a misnomer. Although in global warming, the average temperature increases, there may be a number of areas where things get colder. Also, the variation in temperature from year to year or time to time may become greater.

Possibly a better term would be "Global climate destabilization"; some scientists have started calling it this.

The essential idea is that the earth has natural cycles which regulate climate and temperature and heat distribution. These cycles include the water cycle, ocean currents, air currents, and the absorption of solar heat as well as the emission of heat radiation into space.

Greenhouse gases affect the emission of heat radiation into space, causing more of this heat to be captured in the earth's atmosphere before reaching space. This in turn affects the air cycles and the whole changes can affect the water cycles as well.

The net effect may be that the Earth gets warmer on average, but some areas will get colder. Since the change is rapid, the effect everywhere will be that the climate will get less stable everywhere--there will be more variation.

Answer 4

It is well established that global warming is occuring.

The important thing is not to confuse climate with weather.

Climate is the longer-term characteristics of a region -- average temperatures, average humitity, etc.

Weather describes the shorter-term phenomena -- is it raining, what is the current windspeed, is it warmer this month than last month.

Global warming describes changes -- man-made and otherwise -- to the climate. The current El Nino is affecting this year's weather.

Answer 5

No....not really. We're just having some extreme weather... If you listen to the experts on global warming...they do explain that it involves some pretty extreme weather changes.

Answer 6

Where I'm at the weather is unstable, one day its 60 degrees and sunny and the next day I am freezing my cuticles off

The global warming is here and obvious

Answer 7

you should buy or rent the movie called the day after tomorrowthat will help you understand globle warmming it a cool movie.

Answer 8

no, sort of expected it. any outdoorsman will tell you how it gets really cold on cold mornings just as the sun comes out.
sounds like one of the laws of thermodynamics.