its 40 degrees in minnissota
2007-07-20 03:22:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
What makes you assume Al Gore can think?
2007-07-20 04:27:27 · answer #1 · answered by labdoctor 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Global warming is an unfortunate name given to Global Climate Change when it was first noticed by science. The warming trends were picked up first so that was the initial name given to the phenomenon. The media picked up on the story and "Global Warming" became a popular term in our culture for what is going on. Scientists have long since moved on to the more general and accurate title of global climate change.
What is going on is that more energy from the is being trapped by the in our atmosphere due to the amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases that are being released by human activities. The atmosphere and oceans are getting warmer on overage. However the temperature of the air and sea are not homogeneous over the entire earth. Otherwise there would be almost no wind or sea currents.
The global climate is all one big system, nothing happens independently of anything else. So global drops in temperature can cause heat waves and droughts in local areas, and likewise global increases in temperature can cause cold weather in regions.
Simply put you can't look out the window for a week and make broad assertions about the overall state of the global climate.
2007-07-20 11:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by Science Guy 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Global warming is a bad name for what going on. It should be called climate change instead. I know this doesn't seem logical but this process of global warming will actually cause some places to get much colder. The changing climate will disrupt the natural systems in place that transfer heat energy from low latitudes to higher ones. So the equator will get much much hotter and the higher latitudes will get much colder.
If you want more info you should look up information about the Greenland ice sheet and the "global conveyor belt". This is a good example of what I'm talking about.
2007-07-20 10:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by Gwenilynd 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Global warming deniers often bring up Al Gore (who has nothing to do with science). Or say the short term weather in one place proves something about the long term climate around the whole world. In doing that, they simply admit they have no credible scientific arguments that global warming isn't real.
Congratulations, you've hit the Daily Double.
I've never seen anybody combine these two pieces of nonsense before.
2007-07-20 10:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Global warming was predicted in 1896. I heard about it in 1977. I have a "New Scientist" magazine from 1989 with two articles about global warming in it. This is about chemistry and physics, not the arrant stupidities of US or other politics.
The world is a lot bigger than locations like Minnesota or the USA.
2007-07-20 10:58:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global warming doesn't mean that the world is going to be hotter everywhere all of the time. It is a general pattern of change. In fact, some parts of the world are expected to get colder, as the melting of the polar ice caps cools nearby ocean water.
2007-07-20 13:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore is raising awareness, which he has done really well since you mention his name a lot. Cold fronts and localized weather will go up and down, the global average temperature is going up.
2007-07-20 12:45:02 · answer #7 · answered by russ m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A man once told me "Once cold day in Minnesota doth not a global trend make".
He was a babbling fool. Why, anyone with half a =brain= knows that the best way to determine long term climatic trends is with short term weather data. In fact, I can't think of a =single problem= with this method, can you?
2007-07-20 19:17:09 · answer #8 · answered by SomeGuy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same as I think about the heatwave in Europe, the droughts in Australia, the floods in England, the record temperatures in Africa - they're all weather events.
It may be cold in parts of the US at the moment but globally this has been the hottest year on record so far.
Don't confuse weather with climate, that's like confusing dentistry with surgery - two very different things but both related.
2007-07-20 10:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by Trevor 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
One cold front in one isolated location tells us nothing about global warming, which is simply the consistent increase in average global temperature that you can see here:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
In fact, I'll see your Minnesota and raise you the entire planet.
"2007 is expected to be hottest year on record"
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/
2007-07-20 12:05:28 · answer #10 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋