What are the effects of global warming that you have seen personally?

Question

Have you seen any effects of global warming in your home country, in your own backyard?

For example, lack of rainfall or shorter winters?

It would help if you could tell me which country you're from, and which part of that country. Thanks!

Answer 1

Irrational panic on the part of the political left.

Kansas--Right smack in the middle of the USA.

Answer 2

No effects here; same ole same ole. The summer is cooler than last year, and the winter was longer and colder. I admitt that it is warmer than it was 10 years ago when we first moved here, but the earth goes through many warming and cooling cycles. This isn't really as big of a deal as most people are making it out to be. But whether it is or not, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to conserve energy and try to make this earth a better place. Despite the fact that the pretty holey idea of global warming is being used, people are becoming more aware of the ways they are harming our universe and are doing more to help save it.
~Erin

Answer 3

Well, in 2006 we had no hurricanes in North Carolina, where I live. If global warming can create more extreme weather, it can create some extremely "good" weather too.

In North Carolina, temperatures vary about 90 F over the course of a year. Over the course of a day they can vary by 30 F.

Those natural cycles are so large, that effects from a gradual average increase of 1 F over the past century is really difficult to sort out.

You can collect a lot of anecdotal non-confirmed information from people by asking this question, but it won't be statistically significant or considered reliable. People's memories are just not that good.

Answer 4

Well yesterday my ice cubes melted faster than normal.

Come ON!! This question is dumb.


No one has seen or knows for sure if global warming is really the issue that some scientists say it is. The average temperature in the US was up last year, yet I personally think maybe it is just a polar shift or a natural cycle of the sun. Also, they say that there is supposed to be mass cooling first. So no one really knows.

Answer 5

I live high up in the mountains of central Mexico. I think it was very cold last winter, and now it is so HOT....opening the metal gate with your bare fingers is painful. Opening a car door is painful too. I am finishing a house and I have solar hot water and radiant floor heat for this coming winter. I have ceiling fans, no air conditioning as one knows it in the States.
We all talk about global warming here. We are doing all right for rain right now, it is the season, we are getting the normal amount.

Answer 6

Lack of rainfall in Perth, Western Australia.

We used to have soooo much rain, but as of late we are in a huge drought and have really tight water restrictions. It's winter at the moment and we have had very little rain, whereas it used to rain all the time.

Here is some information from the Australian Bureau of Meterology:
Rainfall: Winter rainfall this year was below average. From June to August, Perth received 411.4 millimetres over 52 days compared with the average of 486 mm over 50 days. This winter was the driest since the 384.8 mm in 2002. Last winter, 464.4 mm over 51 days was recorded. Historically, winter rainfall has ranged from a low of 260.0 mm in 1940 to 957.1 mm in 1945. The wettest day this winter was 12 August when 26.4 mm was recorded. The rainfall for individual winter months was: June 123.2 mm (average 179 mm), July 112.6 mm (average 172 mm) and August 175.6 mm (average 135 mm).

Answer 7

I live in Doon Valley, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
It is a longitudinal valley within Himalayan foothills with general elevation varying from 400m to 800m. Mussoorie ridge lie in the north with elevation reaching to +2100m and Siwalik hills lie to its south with elevation reaching +1000m.

Yes, following changes during last 45-50 years are very striking for me:

(1) Change in the rainfall pattern and annual distribution. Though total annual rainfall has not changed any significantly but its distribution in time has changed. I remember we use to have a good spell of pre-monsoon rainfall which has changed. The rainfall and fruiting of trees in orchards has become miss-match.

(2) In winters I have seen snow line coming down to Rajpur (1100-1200m) at the foot of Mussoorie ridge, a part of Himalaya. Now the period and quantity of snowfall has reduced considerably and it never comes down to Rajpur.

(3) The urban and sub-urban areas have become heat emitters/radiators.

(4) discharge in natural drainage lines has reduced etc.

Answer 8

From the UK, Yorkshire Pennines.

This last winter was the warmest on record with almost no snowfall. The ski resorts I go to in Scotland were closed due to lack of snow as they have been for much of the winter season these last few years.

I do a lot of ice climbing, snowboarding, skiing etc and in recent years the scope for this has been very limited. Where there should be large accumulations of snow there's been hardly anything. In the past snow would lie year round in some sheltered northern facing corries, this hasn't happened for many years now.

The winters have been much shorter and the summers considerably warmer. Last year there was a serious drought, the year before that record high temperatures were recorded, two years before there were heatwaves that killed a great many people (France was much worse hit).

Crops are being harvested earlier, the growing season has been extended, certain crops are now growning further north than previously occured, bird migration times and patterns have changed, butterflies, birds and insects are being seen in places they don't normally visit and are being seen earlier in the season, flowers are blooming earlier, trees are regaining their foiliage earlier.

I also take part in a lot of water sports and the seas and lakes have gradually been getting warmer, at sea there's added dangers from sharks, whales and jellyfish that are now found in waters they wouldn't normally visit and at times they wouldn't normally be seen.

Answer 9

if global warming is true, then the avg. temp will rise 2 degrees in 90+ years. I don't think that anyone has felt it yet. There are natural cycles to weather and climate on earth. If the weather is slightly different, don't jump on the bandwagon of global warming. Don't tell the world how uneducated you are by blaming it on global warming.

Answer 10

the heat wave here in the south, properly from global warming,as well as lack of rain. we haven't seen rain for a mouth, as of today.

Answer 11

Yes I have seen global warming in my country.
The sun is extremely hot i have to use umbrella whenever i go outside. my plant are dried up cause of lack of rain and the sea level rises