Is global warming responsible for the significantly cooler than normal temps in Phoenix the past week?

Answer 1

no silly u see global warming is just something that me and the goverment made up so we could get ur cash ummmm peraps i'v said to much

Answer 2

I believe the questioner knows full well that a week of lower-than-average temperatures in Phoenix offers no insights supporting or disproving global warming. Numerous answers before mine have explained why, I won't repeat what's been said. But here's another way to look at it. Go to Yosemite and watch a 900 year old redwood tree. Spend an hour or two looking at it. Do you see it growing? No? If you argued that this tree isn't growing, of course you would be wrong. It's all a matter of scale. Your perspective is too small. The measurements provided by scientists are able to give us a much broader perspective over both time and space.

Answer 3

Yeah I think it has a lot to do with it, for it proves that there is no Global Warming. Which I'm sure you were getting at :)...... For if the entire world is suppose to heating up then why on earth are different places around the global seeing below averages in temperature this year it just doesn't make any sense to me, well that and the hurricanes but that's another story :).....................

Answer 4

I quite have a chum that lives around there says it gets one hundred twenty levels in the summertime. Its a dry warmth too . climate has not something to do with climate? That sort of circle reasoning is like asserting ice has not something to do with water. perhaps it extremely is going to likely be a splash cooler this 300 and sixty 5 days do not permit the international warming enthusiasts scare you.

Answer 5

Is this question a joke, or are you really that uninformed about global warming?

Assuming you are, the answer is that one isolated weather event in one isolated location tells you absolutely nothing about global warming. Just like 120°F day in Texas doesn't mean global warming is happening, a 50°F day in Phoenix doesn't tell you it's not.

What are you even trying to argue here? That global warming isn't happening because Phoenix had a cool week? Look, everybody knows that global warming is happening:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/

If you want to dispute that humans are causing it, then at least come up with some sort of coherent argument to that effect. Don't come up with some ignorant question about how global warming doesn't seem to be happening in Phoenix. That's a joke.

Answer 6

Global Warming is a climate phenomenom that is averages over long periods of time. Local short term weather is not the same.

Answer 7

It's hard to tell. A week is too short of a time...it could have just been a random fluctuation in the weather....now if it's cooler or hotter than normal for the next ten years, then something bigger is to blame.

Answer 8

Actually, I think Elizabeth Edwards boycott of tangerines has brought the temperatures in Phoenix down. Maybe too far down, if they are below normal. She may have to eat a couple of tangerines to balance things out again.

Answer 9

There's no way to tell. Trying to extrapolate long term trends from shot term data gets us nowhere. So it's impossible to pin down any sort of short lived regional variation to climate change.

Answer 10

local variations but overall the entire globe is warmer. Even Bush et al. cannot disprove this one. So the debate shifts to is it a routine variation vs manmade.