Look, this isn't one day, this isn't an isolated incident - after a moderate December and mild January it's been just frigid for most of the ensuing seven weeks - 10-20 degrees below normal.
The weather changes. The climate shifts over time. A few cold snaps don't disprove global warming - but a few heat waves don't prove it either.
And please don't respond with some rubbish like "well actually it should be called 'climate change' and this unusually cold weather actually is more evidence of it." Last winter was mild and THAT was supposedly global warming. Over the last five years every winter has been different and every time we heard the same thing - THIS is caused by global warming and THIS is what we can expect - - the story changes with the weather.
It's been said that the only constant is change. Now there's a new constant - that whatever the change is, it's going to be blamed on global warming.
Enough. You've used up any credibility that you ever had.
2007-03-09 02:51:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
if its hot...its global warming
if its cold...its global warming
if that fails blame bush
go big blue go
2007-03-09 02:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by short minivan 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Part of global warming (which isn't disputed by the way, everyone agrees we are warming, the controversy is whether or not man has contributed a significant amount to this cycle) is hectic weather... you do know that getting your cold streak in Boston at this time of year would be like getting your heat wave AFTER Labor Day.. that's some pretty jacked up weather.. sounds to me like the predictions are spot on.
2007-03-09 10:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try a logical argument. Just because it is 9 degrees in Boston does not mean that the world is not experience a major climate change, we have winter and will continue having winter. The current temperature in your exact place at the exact moment does not mean anything. Try taking a science class to understand scientific process.
2007-03-09 10:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your belief or non-belief in global warming is completely irrelevant. But just in case you haven't been paying attention, short, bitterly cold winters is a predicted effect of global warming.
No one is asking you to do anything about global warming. Drive your SUV, keep your thermostat at 80 in the winter and your air conditioner at 60 in summer if you want. No one cares about your personal life style. But I would guess you will start to care when you understand that you can't afford it.
When things get really bad, its people like you who will sob and complain that you weren't warned.. no doubt kept in the dark by those "evil liberal scientists."
It is amusing to see the vitriol with which some of the right wing denys the evidence before them. But that kind of denial is consistent with much right wing reaction ism to anything that is not consistent with their preordained notion of how the universe ought to operate.
2007-03-09 11:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You forgot the "global" part. The average temperature of Earth has risen recently. CO2 levels are at an all time high. A vast majority scientists believe the two to be connected. We are in the midst of a global experiment, with unknown consequences.
2007-03-09 10:58:04 · answer #5 · answered by Crabboy4 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your right. All that is is circumstantial evidence. The temperature of an area doesn't prove or disprove global warming. Only the hard science of the situation is what matters. That of course, does prove that humans are contributing to global warming.
2007-03-09 10:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was unaware that the weather in Boston was reflective of a global trend.
I always though that global warming has something to do with the melting of the polar ice caps melting. Which results in a change of ocean currents, bringing both warming and cooling trends to various parts of the world.
2007-03-09 10:56:04 · answer #7 · answered by smedrik 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's cold in Boston in March.
Stop the presses Global Warming is finally over!!!!
Thanks for pointing that out for us... or:
Maybe you may want to read up on what global warming is before you make ignorant statements that prove nothing.
2007-03-09 10:56:15 · answer #8 · answered by Rick 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Last Feb the global average temperature was 2 degrees below the average global temperature from 1901-2000
Last Feb was also the 34 coldest in 134 years. global average.
2007-03-09 10:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by kittenbrower 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yeah on average it's usually much colder in Boston in February.
And in the west there wasn't record forest fires that consumed millions of acres of unaccounted timberland last year. Igorance and bliss end up poor bed fellows when the fire comes raging down on your neighbor hood.
2007-03-09 10:57:12 · answer #10 · answered by andy r 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's 9 degrees in New England during the winter. Who would have guessed that could ever happen?
2007-03-09 10:53:31 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋