Global warming question whenever we have unusual warm weather?

Question

It is immediately attributed to global warming, so if we have unusual cold weather should that be attributed to global cooling or is any variation in weather that's not considered NORMAL just blamed on global warming is my logic skewed or am I just a smartass.

Answer 1

It is both on the same situation, heating and cooling at a massive rate from the Greenhouse effect. It is cloud coverage consisting of pollution. The natural cycles are being modified causing the change. The problem is the alarming rate it is happening. Causes: Earth Quakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, and Tornado's, all detrimental to our lives. Besides the Oceans are rising as the ice melts, and floods are imminent. Look at the devastation to our own Gulf Coast and New Orleans.

Answer 2

Global warming is a general term which basically means that the earth is heating up. The effects of this could in some parts of the world lead to a massive cooling effect. When you look at Europe for example, it gains alot of its warmth by virtue of the Gulf Stream. This basically operates like a convection system. Warm water moves northward and gradully cools and sinks to the bottom of the ocean and returns back toward the gulf of Mexico where it warms up again and travels north. As the earth heats up the ice caps melt and add more fresh water to the system which disrupts the convection system and this leads to cooler weather. This effect will only show over time.

Answer 3

Global warming theory doesn't say that there will no cold spells. It doesn say that average GLOBAL temperatures have increased and will continue to increase. While there will still be cold days the number of those days will decrease.
One factor that I never hear anyone talk about is global dimming. The amount of sunlight researching the surface of the earth has been decreasing for at least the past 50 years. One of the effects of this is to slow tempurature increases due to global warming. I bring this up to point out that the world climate is more complicated than just having a cold snap in New York or a warm spell in Moscow.

Answer 4

some areas will cool with global warming.

Global warming just means the average temperature of the whole earth put together is warmer. Even though parts will get cooler, overall the planet is warmer.

There are reasons why some places will become cooler and thats because ocean/air currents will change creating alot of cool air in some places.... however the overall effect is a global climate change.

in otherwords, local cooling is an effect of global warming

Answer 5

We have been having extreme cold in my area, Southwestern Pennsylvania, for days. According to some weather experts, global warming causes disruptions in normal weather patterns. So, despite the extreme and unusual cold, it is supposedly evidence of global warming.
Just thinking about this lack of logic makes my head hurt.

Answer 6

IT STILL BOILS DOWN TO GLOBAL WARMING.

Unusual changes in climate, like cold weather experienced at an odd time of year, IS ALSO an offshoot of global warming because when global warming (i.e. greenhouse effect gone haywire) goes crazy and disrupts normal climate patterns, we get, like you said, abrupt reversals in weather and you get: voila: unusual cold weather. Wind currents change course and all that hooha.

global cooling, as you suggested is only possible during ice age periods which is essentially a few million/ billion years ahead. The earth will always tend to keep warm, not cool down, because:
a) there's an ozone and an atmosphere that traps all the heat-causing gases like carbon dioxide

and

b) to sustain life. If the earth weren't warm, you, my dear not-a-smartass, would be dead.

Answer 7

Trends are warming and ice caps are melting. I think the fact of global warming has been well enough demonstrated. However, given the various ice ages and their retreats, and the recent evidence that Antartica was once subtropical, I think they have a ways to go in showing causation. Now they are saying the warming correlates with greater use of carbon emission creating machinery. However, it also correlates with votes for women, free market treaties and other things and no one says they are causing global warming. Also, the scientists in the same report said that cleaning up air pollution was contributing to global warming since it removed 'shade'.

Answer 8

each body is people some do not realize technology some exaggerate what they have heard some purely don't have a clue, it really is authentic of both part of the GW debate and quite many subject matters like UFOs, WMDs, crop circles or what Elvis is doing lately. some propose the international is going to end in hearth some say that is a international communist plot or the U.N intending to rule the international or scientists wanting huge quantities of money (clinical funding would not artwork that way) quite a number of those are nonsense, study communities international huge making use of many 1000's of researchers from NASA, NOAA, WMO, British Met, NSIDC a lot of those scientists have decade of diagnosis journey are telling us it really is occurring. And yet (in this and a couple of different similar web pages) you've numbers of people putting ahead theories and data accrued from blog web pages, web pages that provide not something that should be pronounced as clinical data. Are there blunders contained in the study - purely about actual that is complicated Deniers attempt to leap on any small mistake and yell look I advised you it grow to be all fake, it really is purely infantile. because they're uncertain of the destiny consequences there's a form on the estimates given for such issues as sea element upward push e.g. the IPCC have the confirm at a minimum of 24in even this small volume added to organic activities like hurricane surges and king tides could have major consequences and expenditures. i'm not getting mad or calling you dumb yet user-friendly suppling authentic concepts, what you do with it really is as a lot as you. at the same time as denier mis-concepts ought to fool some who do not realize or are even interested in technology, such concepts has no bring about any respect on the actual climate.

Answer 9

If you check the weather reports lately, there are a lot of anomalies and you would think we're headed toward global cooling.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1250478,00.html?f=rss
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070206/D8N4HA9O0.html

There is a lot of controversy about climate change. For example, Top scientists have refuted man's affect on the climate such as Astrophysicist Nir Shariv who stated, "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming. Particularly because of the evidence that has been accumulating over the past decade of the strong relationship that cosmic-rays have on our atmosphere."

"The sun's strong role indicates that greenhouse gases can't have much of an influence on the climate."

Even doubling the amount of CO2 by 2100, for example, "will not dramatically increase the global temperature."

Oregon state climatologist, George Taylor said that "the global warming seen in the past century is caused largely by natural events, including cyclical climate patterns and solar fluctuations linked with cosmic rays and changes in cloud cover."

Even with anomalies, I don't think there is a debate about whether global warming is occurring, but the idea that it is man made is a myth. Remember, the UN that came out with a recent report about climate change is a political entity that has done many things to prove it is not a credible, un-biased source. A recent example is the oil for food scandal that diverted millions of dollars to UN members and others. Also, even if there was man made climate change, China (the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter) and India are not going to embrace fossil fuel consumption.

Additionally, many scientists disagree about climate change and 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. Unfortunately, the sales focussed media who know little about this, spin it to suit their own opinions. So, its highly debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Another thing to consider is that every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.

Source(s):

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=156df7e6-d490-41c9-8b1f-106fef8763c6&k=0

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


Winter Blast Brings Snow To West LA, Malibu
CHP To Escort Motorists Through Icy Grapevine
POSTED: 9:43 am PST January 17, 2007

http://knbc.nbcweatherplus.com/weathernews/10773559/detail.html

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
January 17, 2007:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528

Global warming 'just a natural cycle'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nclimate118.xml

Imminent Global Cooling
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V10/N3/C1.jsp

R.G Bromley (1979)and Kenneth J Hsu (1982) - Dramatic sea temperature changes in earlier extinctions
Norman D Newell - Sea level plunge before extinctions
Anthony Hallam University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.climatecentral.org/
http://www.iceagenow.com/

Answer 10

Ask Al Gore - he seems to be the know-it-all of global-warming. He gets nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize just for talking about the stupid issue. Sh*t, if I would have known that all you have to do is talk about something enough to get nominated for that, I guess I better get started and talk my a** off about some retarded issue. I completely agree with you - but you will never hear your point of view on main stream TV - because its run by liberals and they're all bowing to the left.