If there is such a thing as global warming then why is it so cold in England in July?

Question

I really don't believe in global warming at all. This must be the coldest summer in England ever!!!!! Heating on in the house day and night. Lets have a word with God instead and ask him to put it right for us.

Answer 1

Actually it is not the coldest summer in England ever, not yet anyway.

The reason we are 'enjoying' such cool weather here in UK and much of northern Europe is because the 'jet stream' is sitting somewhere over northern France.

Normally the jet-stream moves north in Summer and hovers over Iceland somewhere. [No, not the store, the Island].

What the jet stream does is to draw warm or hot air northwards from the Equator. Because the jet stream is stuck over France, that is as far north as the warm/hot air is getting.

So, we have to be patient and wait, [possibly forever] for the blessed jet stream to move north. If and when it does, it will suck warm/hot air up from the Azores and hopefully dump it on us, causing a heatwave which will last for ever. Well, a few days in late August perhaps, before it gets too dark.

Global Warming - why are the global warmists so obsessed with the icecaps melting? If I place an icecube in a glass of tap water and allow it to melt, there is no massive tital surge as predicted by the high priests [left wing gooks] of the Global Warming temples of doom. The ice cube melts. That's all that happens.

All I can say is, that if this is Global Warming, lets have more ot it, because here in London we're having about as much 'heat' as we would normally expect in late April or early May.

What Global warming? When is summer coming?

Answer 2

I hear this argument from Neo-Cons all the time.

The answer is what I call "The Zero Sum Effect", and it all has to do with the Jet Stream trying to find equilibrium.

To best understand The Zero Sum Effect, take a simple necklace and drape it over a bowling ball. The bowling ball represents The Earth and the necklace represents The Jet Stream.

If you were to pull down on one end, the other side would raise up because it's all one piece. Savvy?

The Jet Stream acts the same way. As High Pressure and Low Pressure systems tug on it, it bends and ripples. BUT! It never grows. Thus, the sum of the two is zero.

Obviously, The Jet Stream has dipped over the UK, but I assure you, it's raised over America. While you freeze, we're roasting. As you may recall, Russia had one of its mildest winters ever. In fact the bears at the Moscow Zoo wouldn't hibernate. Warmer than normal winters. Cooler than normal summers. Inconvenient for us, but perfectly normal for an Earth that's trying to reach equilibrium.

I also do not want to rule out the melting of Greenland to the equation. If melting ice were to cool the Gulf Stream, Europe would get a lot colder. Could it be happening already?

Answer 3

Well the climate changes all the time so we should expect wet summers such as 2007. The Global Warming hysterics are trying to predict the future with kindergarten computer models. In 'open systems' such we have in the fields of climate change, stock exchange movements, etc., it is simply not possible to give sensible predictions. You might as well ask the guy next to you in the pub. James Lovelock, the ageing nutter who invented Gaia, the terrible, vengeful, Earth Goddess, came to the fore in the 1970's predicting a new Ice Age. The M4 was going to under a mile of ice. Now he has led the 'charge of the loonies' predicting global warming driven by industrial carbon. Its all King Canute type drivel. The changes in climate, to the extent that they can be linked to anything, look more likely to follow solar activity. The Russian Academy of Sciences and the American NASA predict a lessening of solar activity from the middle of this century so expect to hear the loonies going back to Global Cooling in coming decades.

Answer 4

Being cold in the middle of Summer IS CONSISTENT with global warming. A brief geographical lesson:

The heat melts the ice on the Polar Ice caps. That causes Icebergs to drift further south in the Atlantic. We obtain a large portion of our heat from the North American drift - an ocean current that crosses the Atlantic from the Caribbean bringing both warm water and air currents. The existence of Icebergs in the Atlantic cools that current and turns it further South - as a consequence we get colder, stormier and wetter weather here in the UK.

Answer 5

that's why they call it "global" warming and not UK warming. the idea is that they AVERAGE the temperatures of all the countries and then average those numbers every day. That final number is getting higher by the year, and only by a fraction of a degree per year. But that little fraction is a HUGE problem because weather is chaotic. and the main property of a chaotic system is sensative dependence, which is basically that small things can make a huge difference in the big picture down the road.

Answer 6

UGH how can you not believe in global warming when the signs are very clear?? Look at the ice caps in the North Pole and Antartica. They are melting! Global warming does not just mean that everywhere is warm, it causes extreme temperature changes. That would explain why it is so cold in England and so hot in other places.

Answer 7

Don't take the phrase "global warming" so literally.

The idea is that we humans are impacting how our activities affect the planet. The science is there. We are making a contribution because rabbits are not driving cars and putting CO2 molecules into the air. Humans are the only species who change the environment to suit themselves.

Answer 8

Funny you should mention that...-the British Isles seem to be the ONLY place I can find- that ISN'T suffering from the heat this Summer! I know LOTS of people in places who would LOVE to trade homes with you (myself included- as today it was 113 & the 11th day in a row of 110+ temps here in Phoenix, AZ.). So be CAREFULL what you ask for...

Answer 9

Tell that to the people who run the ski hill where I used to live. They haven't been able to keep it open for more than a week or two every year for the last decade. Turning it into housing lots now because of lack of snow. Terrorism is what the government made up to scare the people.

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure Global Warming just doesn't heat things up.. I'm pretty sure it just makes the temperatures very different from before like extreme freezing weather or extreme heat.