Since it's so cold all over the US, why are people concerned about Global Warming?

Question

It's so cold in many parts of the US. Even here in Florida it's dropping below 50 at night 2 -3 times a week for the past 4 weeks. Why are people so worried bout global warming if we are getting all these cold spells?

Don't get my wrong, I actually like Global warming becasue I love summer. And You ever wonder why I moved down to Florida

Answer 1

We could use some global warming in Chicago today. It's cold!

Answer 2

Global warming can cause strange weather . Global warming is here and it will continue to get worse but it isn't like it happens overnight. The 10 most hottest years on earth have occured within the last 15 years. Overall the temperatures are warmer. It might not seem like it when it is very cold but it is happening. Heck here in CT we had 70 degree weather the 2nd week of January and now it is -9 with the windchill.....strange weather is occuring all over the world.....

Answer 3

Don't worry about it, there is no such thing as Global Warming... well as everyone is making it out to be! It is all a cycle, it happens, and it has been happening for as long as the Earth has been around! We are actually colder than many years. It was a lot hotter in the 30's and 40's then we are now. I know up here in Canada, we are experiencing seasonable temperatures for a change, but that leads people to believe we are "warming" up. When the fact is, we just haven't had our cold snap yet this winter.

Granted we are starting to affect what is happening in our world, like polluting the waters and cutting down trees, but as for making the temperature of the planet change, don't make me laugh!

When you listen to people talk about Global Warming, think of it as watching FOX News, a story is taken and twisted into something fake!

Answer 4

This iciness's arctic chilly is truly going to make international Warming a not ordinary promote to those dummies, deniers, poopy heads, and stupid those that are literally not really, really smart like us, rather if we favor to gouge them for yet another few bob on inspite of necessity they purchase. So, the following is the plan: a million. We cool down until eventually the elements warms up. 2. it truly is going to be warm with assistance from that element and we tell human beings it truly is via international warming. 3. next, we convince the ninth Circuit court docket of Appeals to provide GWB climate gadget to Obama. 4. we've Obama fireplace the GWB climate gadget into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. 5. the end result we be massive hurricanes, bitchin' tsunamis, gonzo flooding, drought, winds, fires, and chilly climate. warm dang, lets even fry some chickens contained in the barnyard! 6. we are going to then have adequate info, inventory pictures, and destruction to coach international Warming is cereal. God damn it, we ought to do this! i do no longer favor yet another multi-year international warming typhoon/disaster hollow!!

Answer 5

People sometimes confuse weather with climate. At any time the weather can be anything. The climate is the long term average. If an IPCC scientist made that argument, first they'd laugh at him. Then they'd kick him off the project.

This is hardly Al Gore's thing. The science and the data based and peer reviewed IPCC report have settled the debate. These people think so, and they vote Republican:

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Governor, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

John McCain, Republican, Senator, Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush

The IPCC report will be available in a few weeks. It will cost money, it's 1600 pages. But someone will put it up online at some point. It addresses "solar variation "volcanoes", etc. every one of the "it's a natural thing" arguments, and more. Not with opinions pulled out of someone's ear, but with hard, peer reviewed data. You can read the 21 page summary here:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

The IPCC report is the biggest scientific paper ever, with the most data, the most authors, and the most peer review, in the history of science. It is the very pinnacle of hard scientific research. The last paper to hold that title was the last IPCC report in 2001. You can look at that one here.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/online.htm

Science does not get any more solid than this. The scientific debate is over.

It's not going to be just a little warmer. Very gradually coastal cities will start to flood, first in storms and then just all the time. Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns will severely damage agriculture. Rich countries will be able to cope, but it will cost them huge sums of money and lower their standard of living. In poor countries people will die of starvation.

It's a disaster in very slow motion. The worst disaster in human history. It will take another 20-50 years for the worst effects to appear, but if we are going to reduce those, we need to start now.

Answer 6

The term "global warming" actually is a catch-all phrase which alludes to a normal climate balance out of whack.

Much of that "warming" is the changes in the oceans, which alters current and air flow, which alters the highs/lows, wet/dry patterns.

And this gets back to the "warming" part, as in "why are the oceans warming?".

Carbon, ozone and related gases are the possible culprits.

As to who or what is to blame (people, industry, cow belches, etc..) is still a bone of contention.

However, one thing is certain (at least if you are NOT a creationist) and that is, over millions of years, the Earths' climate continues to fluctuate.
There have been ice ages, periods of drought, warming trends, etc.
The Earth is a living entity - we are merely organisms in a continuous state of decay (i.e., we are born to die).

And there you go!

Answer 7

Global warming means the weather is changing. Some places that used to be hot will become colder and vice versa. The last thing that will happen is that it will become hot all over. And with melting ice caps, cities and land near the oceans will be under water. We must write and call our representatives and ask them to support plans to stop global warming. Vote against the administration that will not support help on this subject. like BUSH.

Answer 8

You will still get cold spells with global warming. The temperature differences are small but in the life of animals and plants it will drive them towards the poles. So for example borderline crops in Georgia will fail and instead will have to be grown in the Carolinas instead.

Answer 9

People overreact, myself included. We get upset over things like Global Warming even though warming the planet a few degrees has advantages too.

Answer 10

Exactly, Cuddly. Check out these links. They'll give you a much better idea of what's really going on in our society where the big "global warming" hoax is concerned. And by the way...up here on the West Coast of Canada we've had the snowiest winter in ten years.

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/speeches_quote04.html

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm