when is global warming going to kick in?

Question

last 5 years winter has been below normal -40f for most of the winter near the end of may was snowing here last week. last 5 years summer rain every second day with temps high reaching 78f and no i dont live at the artic circle

Answer 1

global warming is already starting to happen.

Answer 2

When is going to kick in? Try several years ago. Global warming concerns the disruption of previous climate conditions. It's not the weather from day to day, or even year to year, it's the bigger picture.

WIth global warming the weather becomes less stable. There are more extreme changes in more locations, floods where there previously were none, fires and droughts were there were none, rising sea levels and coastal erosion, poorer air quality. More and more places on the planet are experiencing extreme storms and weather changes that make it difficult to support the same plant and animal life, including crops. We hear more and more about the food supply being tainted and people being evacuated from their homes due to storms and extreme weather conditions.

Global warming is a much larger issue than the weather forcast.

Google "global warming" and see what comes up. Both National Geographic and the Environmental Protection Agency (a US government site) have sites that deal with the topic.

Answer 3

that is global warming, it changes very subtly warmer in parts of the earth and cooler in others. Where I live the winter has been milder and the summers have been very dry. In England they had there first 100 degree day EVER about 2 years ago. Watch the movie "A Inconvient Truth" whether you agree with Al Gores politics or not it has a very alarming message. You can browse livescience.com and find news of global warming or simply google it and go from there. It is happening, right now.

Answer 4

Global warming is very much happening, some of the consequences having been mentioned in the previous answers.

What you're experiencing is perhaps best described as local weather conditions. Global warming is a worldwide trend and whilst some places will be cooler than average there will be other places that are warmer than average with an overall trend being one of gradual warming.

For instance, where I am (the UK), we've just had the hottest April on record, this came after the hottest winter on record which came after the hottest year on record and follows on from the hottest decade on record (the UK has the longest weather records of any country, stretching back to 1659).

The key thing to remember is that global warming is based on worldwide trends over long periods of time. What you're referring to is local to where you are and over a short period of time.

Answer 5

From the way you stated your question, it seems that you have caught onto the fact that global warming is not going to kick it. Just as has always happened in the past, it will be colder sometimes and warmer at others. We will spend some time with our normal weather patterns and then we will get spikes one way or the other.

As the global warming community has set things up, everything and anything that happens in our weather can be blamed on global warming. Too hot? Global warming. Too cold? global warming. Too many tornadoes? global warming.

Not to say that climate cannot change... it has throughout history and will throughout the remainder of our existence.

Best thing to do is to try and not pollute because it makes your personal area look worse... and try not to let all this global warming claptrap scare you. Once you feel fear over it, they have a degree of control over you.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Its here, now.
1. The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
2. Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like theColombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
3. The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
4. At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.5

If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic consequences.

5. Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to 300,000 people a year.
6. Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.
7. Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense. Droughts and wildfires will occur more often. The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
8. More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.

Refer to the following link:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Answer 7

According to statistics and scientific research, Global warming has already 'Kicked in'.
IPCC scientists claim, that sea-level rose by 0.2 meters during the last century, and give an average predicted rise of 0.4 meters for this century.
Icecaps and glaciers are already melting at an unprecedented rate. Satellite data shows that, since 1960, sea-ice in the Artic has retreated by 15% and 40% less thick.
The release of water at present held on storage as ice and snow in the hydrological cycle could raise the world's sea-level by a further 5 meters. Even a rise of 1 meter could flood 25% of Bangladesh, 30% of Egypt's arable land, and totally submerge several low lying islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. At present, 40% of the world's population live within 100 km of the coast many people being vulnerable to rising sea-levels and storm surges.
IPCC's super computer models indicate that places with:
-insufficient rainfall are likely to get more, resulting in increased flooding.
-insufficient rainfall are likely to get less in terms of both amount and reliability, giving increased drought (e.g much of Africa)- a prediction which claims that the 1.7 billion people (one-third of the worlds population) already short of water in 2000, this could increase by 5 billion by 2025!

Answer 8

No it has not been normal anywhere in the country. i live in new york and two weeks ago we had a tornado rip through my town, something that never happens here ever, and certainly something i havent seen in my life long stay in new york state. states are getting more extreme weather patterns on all fronts, states that never see hurricanes or extreme rain are starting to get that type of extreme weather, snow, extreme heat they are all playing a major role in the shift of americas climate and weather to set the state for a rapid increase in the change with global warming. the proof this is occuring is that your saying it was snowing in may, since when does it snow in may? global warming isnt just warmth it is the rapid shift of climate and weather, this could mean hotter or colder do not be fooled by the word "warming" it does not only mean that warming is occuring. but absolutely you can see the shift and change in all parts of america and the world with regard to weather and climate.

Answer 9

Scientists are generally agreed that although it has been creeping up on us the real effects kicked in in 1980 and have been growing steadily since then.

Whilst warmth increases in some areas there will be areas that get colder. The amount of rain falling has not changed - where it falls has, thus causing draughts and floods.

Winds and the superhaline currents in the deep oceans have steadily swung West and continue to do so.

Answer 10

global warming is already happening.It has been really effective since the 1970's.scientists also predict that by 2020 and in the near future there will be more,frequent, & intense hurricanes,also,loss of beaches along the east coast.there will be more trouble causing pests and more dangerous diseases being carried by mosquitos such as the WEST NILE and malaria, as it gets warmer every season so they can stay around longer.This past winter it was the WARMEST January EVER recorded to date.Finally if you look at the warmest years ever they have occured in the past decade,the warmest:2005

Answer 11

people were already talking about it in the sixties
where i am it is in the 40ties
42 to 45 degrees celcius the whole day
At least the nights are a cool 32 degrees
Global warming has been kicking for some time