why is it getting hotter and hotter each year?

Answer 1

I dunno climate trends but its 80 in pa but its supposed to snow for easter soa pparentsly cold weather is coming from someplace ;p

Answer 2

it is geting hotter and hotter each year due to the fact that the human population is getting bigger and they are producing more methane with new products that are made such as cars, some old refrigerators that are illegal in the us, cows and much more. this is causing global warming and the greenhouse gas effect. the sun's rays are supposed to be bouncing back and forth from the sun to the earth and some get absorbed but others get bounced off back to the sun but now with the excess co2 there has been an accumulation of the sun's rays and causing the rise in temperature and the breaking off the ozone layer causing more heat to arise.

Answer 3

The globe is warming because of a few reason that are combined in effect.

First ok it is true theat carbon dioxides are in the air causing the ozone to have big holes in it thus; causing an increase in temperature. But thats the small part.

Second, I hope everybody has heard of the earth's axis woblle. As it woblbbles the earth has a increase or decrease in degree of dilt. This causes more or less solar declination. The less tilt the hotter it get the more tilt the colder it gets. We are moving towards 24 degress of tilt which would suggest we are moving away from any colder climatic changes.

Finally, orbit flux; it takes about 100,000 years to move in and out of our standard obit as we know it. The flux causes the earth to move a little closer or a little farther away from the sun. We are moving a little closer now.

Don't worry we will not burn up.

You can find all of the explanations under moranovick or steven hawkins yahoo searches.

Answer 4

The temp. of the surface of the Earth has risen 0.5-1degrees Fahrenheit since the late 1900's raising the eye brows of our government and scientists thus there is a huge difference of opinion when it comes to the cause. Here are the two major ones >1. Man - the burning of fossil fuels,car fumes,ect.. that releases carbon dioxide and >2. Natural factors- The out put of the suns energy fluctuates in every cycle which lasts about 11 years each.

I don't think that anyone will ever agree on the cause but I do believe that we all could take some small steps to slow it down.
*Recycling
*Hybrid Cars
*Planting trees
*saving energy
*Public transportation
*Protecting our rain forests
*Using our natural resources
And so much more check out

www.organically.com/news/savetheplanet.pdf
www.treehugger.com

Answer 5

I think it is partly due to the greenhouse gases .When infrared radiation from the sun strikes the surface of the earth, some of the radiation is reflected back into space and some is absorbed in the atmosphere and trapped as heat which heats up the ground again. Man made pollutants add to the situation and after a very long time the climate slowly changes.

Answer 6

Global Warming is a whole bunch of BS!! Al Gore needs to stop wasting his money on those stupid slideshows across the world. It's simply a phase...watch in like a couple of years the Earth will be colder than normal...look at the history of it...TRUE our Ozone layer is dying...but I'm sure that we'll be fine...and even if the ice caps do melt...I'm pretty sure they won't do it over night so some people will have time to get up and leave. Anywho...I'm not givin up my sexxy truck. I could care less about the damn fossil fuels ****.

Answer 7

There's natural reasons and there's manmade (anthropogenic) reasons.

Naturally the world is warming because of the way it 'wobbles' about in space. These 'wobbles' are called Milankovitch Cycles and relate to the way the earth tilts from side to side, bounces up and down and wobbles like a spinning top. The scientific terms are axial tilt, precession and eccentricity.

For example - land absorbs more heat then oceans and if the earth leans in such a way that the land 'faces' the sun it heats up more than if the oceans 'face' the sun. That's not strictly true because the earth rotates so it doesn't face the sun as such but that's the general idea.

Since the dawn of the earth it's either been cooling or warming - but it's never quite so simple as that. There can be warming periods within longer trends of cooling. In fact, the longest cycle is one spanning the last 50 million years in which the earth is cooling - the current warming is a blip within a much larger cycle.

The amount of heat that the earth receives from the sun is measured in Watts per square metre per year and is 1366. Natural variations cause fluctuations but only very small ones - just 1.3 W/m2/yr, not enough to have short term effects on our climate but enough over periods of thousands and millions of years to cause significant changes.

And it's significant chages we've witnessed in recent years. The rate of warming is currently 31.2 times as fast as the natural base rate since the world began warming of it's own accord 18,000 years ago.

The reason it's warming involves something termed the Greenhouse Effect and this is caused by Greenhouse Gases. The two main ones are carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) - there are many others but they occur in very small amounts of have very little effect.

The molecules of CO2 and CH4 allow heat from the sun in but prevent some of the heat from the earth getting back out. The reason this happens is that heat from the sun is in the form of solar radiation and this has a short wavelength which passes through the greenhouse gas molecules unimpeded. When the suns rays strike the earth, oceans, buildings etc they warm them up, when the temperature drops the heat is released - rather like a radiator. The heat is released as thermal radiation and this has a longer wavelength than solar radiation and has difficulty geting past the greenhouse gas molecules - they're effectively acting like a blanket and trapping heat in.

As more greenhouse gases are emited into the atmosphere it has the effect of thickening the 'blanket' so trapping more heat.

In recent years (the last 200), greenhouse gas levels have risen to their highest ever since humans first appeared on the planet and they're continuing to rise. Nature can absorb a certain amount of greenhouse gases through the sequestration of carbon dioxide (mainly absorption into the oceans and photosynthesis to make plants and trees grow), nature also releases CO2 (mainly from the oceans and when plants die). Each year 4 billion tons more CO2 is absorbed through natural processes than is released - the problem is that last year alone humans emited 29 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere - far more than nature can handle.

Answer 8

NO NO NO. Let's be clear here. "Global warming" in the literal sense is true. That is, yes, the earth is getting warmer. However, nowadays, the term "global warming" comes with the underlying insinuation that it is humanity's fault. That is not necessarily true. The debate is NOT over, despite what Al Gore or Gov. Schwarzenegger say. There is still a very strong scientific (not political) argument that supports the fact that the present global warming is natural, and it will naturally cool again too. People who dismiss the evidence against human-driven global warming are pushing political agendas and are blinding the rest of the world with them.

The important thing here is just to stay open-minded. Don't ever say that the debate is over....

Check out this link, or just manually look up the video The Great Global Warming Swindle by the BBC:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4499562022478442170&q=genre%3Anature+is%3Afree

Answer 9

Holes in the ozone layer (protective atmosphere that shrouds our planet, Earth, for most of us) that allow harmful amounts of CO2 to build up. Global temperature will continue to rise, heat is being trapped and intensified, and the polar ice caps are already beginning to melt, thereby raising sea level.

I just saw on the news that even though the temperature change has been rather small (3 degrees or so, over the past decade), the maple trees in Vermont are frying in the heat. Why do I care, you may ask? Because I love maple syrup and it will not be available anymore once global warming kills off that tree species.

Answer 10

NO NO NO. Let's be clear here. People who assert that global warming is NOT a concern are pushing political and big-business agendas. Science does not have a political agenda.

There is so much confusion and misinformation about it – please take a geoscience class!
Be skeptical about everything you read – even this.
Get information from multiple trustworthy sources, you can start with: http://www.realclimate.org

Learn how to recognize science vs. pseudo-science.
Learn that a scientific theory is the highest possible honor we can give to an idea, short of calling it a law.
Learn the difference between the ozone layer and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Learn that global warming is both natural and man-made – i.e. we are experiencing man-made spikes in global temperatures on top of natural trends. The man-made part of it is of significant concern because it is so recent and so rapid.

Don’t be fooled by those who claim the jury is still out on global warming – these people are either ignorant, believing what they hear from others, or they are very smart and have a hidden agenda.

Answer 11

Hotter??

It's April 3rd, the temperatures in New England are running
10 degrees below normal. We're expecting snow later in the
week.

SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING.