if global warming is warming the world then how come temperatures are down in this country?

Question

How come it was hotter last year than it is this year? and has anybody got any proven answers? i think that it is just part of earths natural progression.

Answer 1

This year has still been about two degrees warmer than average.

Last year was the *second* warmest year thats ever been recorded. The top eleven warmest recorded years have all occurred in the last 15 years.

When you compensate for things like water vapor, particulates, cloud cover, sea ice, and seawater temperature, the current warming trend follows the increasing rate of manmade CO2 emissions almost exactly.

Answer 2

Just because one place is cooling down doesn't mean global warming is happening. In fact, that could be even more proof that it is happening. It's like saying, "If the entropy of the universe and everything is supposed to always go up, why can we freeze things and lower the entropy?" You can because somewhere else, something is gaining the same or more entropy as the thing you're solidifying is losing.

Altering climates change what is expected with global warming; I live where it should be boiling from June to October, and it's rained multiple times over the last month.

If you decide to check out Africa, you'd see the massive migration that's being caused by drought. Or, you could check out the Southeast US, and see the droughts there.

In any case, we cannot ignore it. Are the environmental people right? Not necessarily. But we can't sit and do nothing. What if cropland shrinks, or waterways change? Why is the Arctic Circle being thought of as a new passageway for ships?

Answer 3

Are you getting your information from the right wing political nuts or the oil company disinformation agents? (You know, a couple of them confessed after they couldn't live with themselves.) Starting with incorrect information is always a bad premise for discussion.

Shadow wave and joker, I don't believe you've actually seen the curves you are talking about. The recent trend in global warming is ocurring at about 1000 *times* the speed due to the ice age cycle. So it isn't like a sine wave at all. It's like a parabola, and a very steep one at that, compared to normal geological trends.

While it is so fashionable for people who call themselves "conservatives" to decry the whole global warming phenomenon, we realize why you do it. You, or the people who have dictated your position to you, deny anything which would imply restrictions on corporate profits. It's about taxes, too. So you are concerned only with what will keep you in the money. You would rather have the whole country misled so that you can keep an extra $20 of your withholdings, than accept the truth and live with some sacrifices that will better assure the survival of your thousands of descendants who will be suffering in that unbearable world you are so eager to leave for them.

And what a misnomer and irony of terms! Conservative? Conserving what? The whole mindset is "Gimme, gimme, gimme," and "Use it all now 'cause I don't care what we leave for future generations. I won't be around, anyway." People who deny this fact at this late point are really damaging their own credibility, as there is not a scientific organization in the world which is not alarmed at global warming. So you Rush Limbaugh (et al) fans, *you* are the ones who need to wake up.

Answer 4

Ok global warming is a trend for a long period of time over the entire planet, not one country for one year. The planet is heating up, and has been for some time. The question of the day is how much humans are impacting and the consequences of our impact.

No offense, but what you think is irrelevant to the issue because you have not studied anything. This decision is one that should be made by scientists and not the public who only listens to biased television and maybe reads part of an article in Newsweek or Time Magazine.

Answer 5

All "experts" agree, especially if they live off government grants, that ManBearPig works in mysterious ways.

Personally, I think NASA is shipping excess heat to Mars, where the dry ice is disappearing. Personally, I'm older now and can't stand the cold in the morning. I'm glad the Ice Age that the same people predicted for the 1970s has finally ended.

(Current solar max cycle set to peak in 2011. By that time anybody who makes fun of the global warming "models" will be in re-education camp. I suggest you start purchasing indulgences immediately in attempt to prove your conversion to their religion.)

Answer 6

we're having a crap year cos the el nino effect in the south pacific is effecting the global weather. It has knocked the North Atlantic Jet Stream off course,and instead of this going between scotland and iceland it is heading straight for denmark allowing areas of low pressure to form over the uk.

The world is getting warmer, the ice caps and glaciers are melting. did you not hear of that guy swimming to the north pole last week?

Also, check the weather in southern europe, they're having it very hot!

Answer 7

what is the main goal for global warming?
save energy? use cheaper method to produce energy? plant more trees? save money on energy?
NO. all those things we do is for 1 goal, to reduce CO2. and dont tell me you dont believe CO2 can rise the global temperature. i guess venus has told us its story. Venus' surface is hotter than Mercury's despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun. why? mercury has only 3.6% of CO2 in its atmosphere while Venus has 96.5%. it is the planet that has the most CO2 than all other 7 planets.

Answer 8

It's nothing to do with global warming - simply a natural cycle which our planet is going through (and has done many times before!) So when the politicians ask you for extra car tax, it's money talking, not our climate!!!

Answer 9

i personally believe the global temperature average fluctuates. i think it fluctuates like a trigonometry sin wave (or a cycle if you will). i also think we as humans are misguided in that we are always concerning ourselves with the low points and high points of the wave when we should be concerning ourselves with the height of the wave, but that's just my theory

Answer 10

Dude, did you know they were sending an expedition to the arctic/antarctic to measure glaciers or sea level or something?

Guess what? It was called off because it was too cold. Irony, eh?

I think it is natural progression. I think people forget that that is what happens when a planet recovers from an ICE AGE! Think! The entire globe used to be tropical! What, did everything SUDDENLY become what the world is SUPPOSED to be like?

Come on, people! Wise up!