is all this extreme weather today do to global warming?

Answer 1

Global warming is undoubtedly a contributory factor to overall climate change but it's unrealistic to blame global warming for any or all individual adverse weather events.

We have a good understanding of the drivers of weather and the changes to our planet as a result of global warming are more condusive to the building of many types of adverse weather conditions.

There always has been extreme weather and unless something of catastrophic proportions happens then there always will be. It's not so much the fact that some places are experiencing extreme weather but the frequency and intensity of such events.

What we as climatologists and meteorologists do is to document adverse weather events and assign them a 'return period' value. This is a value indicating the expected frequency of such events and is measured in years. When we start seeing events with a return period of say 100 years happening every 10 years, then we know something is very wrong.

We can measure the intensity of weather events (temperature, wind speed, rainfall etc) and compare these to historical data. When we do this there's a marked increase in the intensity of adverse weather events, especially storms.

As a further measure we plot the number of instances of extreme weather against events which are not affected by climate change. This provides us with data showing the number of storms, droughts, floods, wildfires, volcanoes, earthquakes etc. What we find when we do this is that the frequency of natural events such as volcanoes and earthquakes is pretty much constant whereas there is a marked rise in the number of climate change related events.

So in summary, global warming is causing more extreme weather but it's not the sole cause.

Answer 2

I have lived in Oregon for the past 35 years! And over that period, there has been a distinct change in the weather patterns! Would some of you 'so called global warming experts, that say it isn't happening, pray tell just what has caused the changes?Just the idea that we 'Could' be harming our planet due to global warming is enough to make me try to change the way I dispose of the things i buy! Why is everyone else so determined to bury their heads in the sand?

Answer 3

Global warming is happening faster than in the recent past. But you must understand that the terms 'fast' and 'recent' are on a geological (not human) time scale.

Thus it is extremely unlikely that any 'once off' extreme weather is due directly to climate change. It is more like random and one of those things that happen from time to time.

I am not dissing the climate change / global warming arguement and all us humans should be worried about it. I think we have (as a species) some nasty challenges coming up (and not just with the climate). Just understand the scale and timeframes we are dealing with when it comes to global warming.

Answer 4

A simple volcano eruption in china would affect weather patterns here. Its very complicated, global warming doesnt help but if you look at history before the Industrial Revolution weather wasnt all that nice either. As far as temperature, Mars has gotten colder for the past 50 years, maybe its global cooling? There just isnt enough scientific evidence to point weather its the ozone or just another spell the world is going through like it has since the beginning of time.

Answer 5

It's wrong to blame global warming for specific weather in a specific place. That's called "weather" not "climate". Weather can do just about anything.

But heat is the fuel of storms. As global warming occurs, more heat means stronger storms, on average.

But that's just a general rule, and individual storms can be very strong or very weak, regardless.

Answer 6

yes quite sort of.if u seen in the past so we can see the climate was not like this.like now a days weather is changing very quickly.like when winter then extrem winter when hot then extrem hot cause of climate change.u can also call it green house effect.like from the all over the country people just cutting a huge amounts of tree. as a result in our earth the percentage of CO2 is just increasing .so its just makes a small Small hole in our wheather balance system.as a result world become warm and at the north and south poll's ice is melting.so its very dangerous for us .so we should always be aware for this and get ready to solve it .and this is why our wheather is changing very quickly.

Answer 7

If the weather here is due to global warming, its exactly the opposite of what the global warming alarmists predicted for here.

They said this area would become uninhabitable desert....
We've got record rainfalls.

Seems the Global Warming alarmists were wrong about the effect...

Maybe they are wrong about other stuff too. (most likely they are wrong about a lot)

Answer 8

yes , All extreme weather today is due to global warming.
Global warming means the hole in the layer of ozone .
We cannot fill the hole , but we can stop the hole to become big by growing more & more trees .

Answer 9

The only "scientists" who say NO are paid by companies who want to exploit resources....

"In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation."

It's NOT what YOU believe... ;)

Answer 10

Yes. Unfortunatly.