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would it melt the 12 feet of snow that has fallen in the last week which was obviously caused by global warming

2007-02-15 04:34:28 · 8 answers · asked by Libsuc 3 in Science & Mathematics Weather

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If we were to take away the effects of global warming due to an anthropogenic increase in greenhouse emissions, there would remain according to James Lovelock, author and progenitor of Gaia, a far worse fate awaiting the earth. Permit me to quote from his recent book "The Revenge of Gaia"; "In the very long term, solar warming is a far greater problem for life than our present-day battle with man-made global heating. In about one billion years, and long before the sun's life ends (forecast to be about 5 billion years from now), the heat received by the Earth will be more than two kilowatts per square metre, which is more than the Gaia we know can stand; she will die from overheating." This is not to suggest we throw up our hands and do nothing about our current problems in managing our bio-sphere but it does put it in a different perspective and if true throws out any concern again about global cooling.

2007-02-15 07:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by 1ofSelby's 6 · 1 0

Yes, if we were entering a period of global cooling we would still experience heatwaves, droughts, wildfires etc.

Global warming / cooling is a trend over a long period of time. For the last 18,000 years the world has been slowly warming up but there have been periods of exceptionally cold weather.

Over a period of 18,000 years the average temperature would only need to rise by one thousandth of a degree each year to have a very dramatic effect.

Heavy snow fall is a weather condition, weather is short term - a matter of days or maybe weeks. Global warming / cooling and climate change are much more long term - hundreds and thousands of years.

2007-02-15 13:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2 0

Yes, something that happens in one or two weeks, over an area of just a few 1000 square km, "obviously" cancels out the global warming that happens over 100's of years and 510 millions of square km.

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2007-02-15 12:42:00 · answer #3 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 2 1

No Way. Upstate Ny is hardly is ever above freezing in the winter. That snow they got will be with them until maybe end of March no matter what happens

2007-02-15 12:39:39 · answer #4 · answered by Justin 6 · 0 0

well if you lesson to the non sceince guy algore.. he said that global warming would cause global cooling in the oceans. which would lead the world to cool off and send us into an ice age is what I think he said... but.. i alway laugh at those type of people and walk away

2007-02-15 12:40:07 · answer #5 · answered by Larry M 3 · 1 2

Why are you so obsessed with global warming if you don't think it's real?

2007-02-15 12:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by derelicthypotheses 2 · 0 0

Al Gore would say so. And he is the Father of the Internet.

2007-02-15 16:31:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think you are confused.

2007-02-15 12:38:00 · answer #8 · answered by w00t 3 · 0 1

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