is 30 yrs of recording the earths temp enough history to predict global warming or an ice age?

Question

gloabl warming is a myth. I remmeber winters in Mi in the 70s that were with out snow and i remember spring in michigan with blizards and at the time you environmental nuts predicted a new ice age.

Answer 1

Nope, neither one.

Answer 2

No, I don't. But that doesn't mean we should not change the way we do things. Pooping in our homes ,in some place other than a toilet is frowned upon. Why should it be any different in regards to our environment? Do I think we should go running around like Chicken Little? No, I don't. But we have to take a thoughtful, non panicked approach. We cannot expect to keep up this pace. I read somewhere that America makes up 6% of the global populace but we use around 55% of the resources available. The math of that is cause for concern. Things have to change, everything changes. How we adapt to the change is key.

Answer 3

While we can record things better this year than 5 years ago, much less 30, there have been competent recordings for hundreds of years.

More importantly we can find CO2 levels and temperature information that goes back hundreds of thousands of years, sometimes directly in bubbles of air trapped 600,000 years ago to the present, and sometimes less directly by looking at tiny fossils in mudstones that go back for hundreds of millions of years.

Just because you do not look at all the reasons why this data reflects reality, has no relationship to that reality.

Answer 4

We have over a hundred years of temperature records.

Nobody disputes the fact that the average temperature per year is slowly going up. (one degree over the last one hundred years.)

What is disputed is how much human activity is the cause of this rise. Would it be happening anyway, simply another cycle the earth goes through? Or are we all bad people, killing mother earth with our cars and cow farts?

Answer 5

You should have fun with your state of denial, instead of making idiot remarks. Global warming is a fact and we are starting to see climate changes to prove these things. Is it something that we have to worry about now, yes but not for our generation but more for your kids and grand kids. How we leave the future is how we will be perceived as taking care of our world.

Answer 6

This is a pretty comprehensive break down of the hows and whys of the present finding.http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/

Whether it is correct or not I don't know.As always with science it is best to wait a few years and see what changes.

Answer 7

1. We have been keeping trakc of temps for far longer than 30 years (although not as acurately)

2. We have other gauges such as growth rings of trees, ice core samples from the arctic, etc... that go back thousands of years

So simple answer, no it isn't. Practical answer, we have far more than that.

Answer 8

better techniques.. better science.. they can take ice cores from Antarctica and tell you about the thickness of the atmosphere for the last millennium and one thing is for certain.. there are more greenhouse gasses now than ever before.. deny it if you want.. it just means that in 40 years I'll be laughing my *** off at your ignorance :)

Answer 9

NO.

and when they start telling you the weather has been recorded for hundreds of years, well, the Earth is far far older, and has had climate change long before man ever came along.

Answer 10

absolutely not.

there are records that go back farther then that, but I think you are making reference to the fact only recently we have had modern and accurate means to Gage weather patterns.

Answer 11

no. That's why we have more than 30 years of recorded temps.