Do you think this heatwave is related to Global Warming?

Question

I don't think it is. A lot of people I know think this weather is what is gonna melt the polar ice caps. I know it's just a common thing that we have had in the past. We had some hot summers in the 80s and 90s. I remember the summer of 2002 when it was in the 100s for a whole week straight.

I remember when we all had the extreme cold on Easter Sunday 2007.
Even as far South as Florida it was cold on Easter Sunday.
With December like weather. Remember that?

Answer 1

No, I think it has to do with the fact that it is summertime. There has been heatwaves in summertime for as long as I have been alive.

Answer 2

Every summer they say there is a heat wave. This time last year San Antonio, Texas had the citywide water pressure lowered to help conserve water and the aquifer was dangerously low. This year about the same time frame the aquifer is like 10 ft from breaking an all time high record and not only that but the weather is way more mild than it was last year this time. Last year it was in the 100's for weeks on end then it finally died down. You have this year where I think it hit 100 back in may and hasn't again since.

I live in New Mexico and the weather here is great! high 80's to low 90's all month last month and so far this month with low humidity.

Read up on the Urban Heat Index. Sheds alot of light on what might REALLY be happening in or world.

Answer 3

Is the cold snap in Australia related to AGW as well?

Globally this may be the 2nd warmest first half of the year (Jan-Jun) in the Northern Hemisphere, but it is not even close to that in the Southern Hemisphere.

Besides, July was below average here in SC, but the western states were probably above average (though sacramento, ca was below average--just picked a city to check). August looks like it will be above average. It is rare for the temperature to be average, normally it is either above or below, but when you take the AVERAGE, it comes in somewhere near the average (or a bit above, because right now the earth's SURFACE temperature is a bit above the historical average).

Also, the upper atmosphere isn't nearly as warm as the surface and the highest levels are actually colder (this is from NOAA data as well).

Weather does not equal climate. Even environmentalists know this.

Answer 4

It's a mistake to say the short term weather in any one place is related to global warming. It's just weather, which doesn't prove or disprove global warming.

This graph shows the difference between weather and climate nicely, even though it's for the whole Earth. Year to year the weather jumps around a lot. But the trend in long term climate is undeniable.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2_lrg.gif

By the way, note that the unusually hot year of 1998 has now been exceeded, putting an end to that bit of nonsense ("the weather stopped warming in 1998" was often said by "skeptics")

Answer 5

In November it started to snow. Then it stopped around the end of it. Then it took it till the end of January to start again.
We had a major heat wave!!!

Now up here in Michigan its burning hot, and every other day, here it rains. In fact it gets hotter when it rains .

You can definitely tell if you have seen Al Gore's movie. Its Terrible.The Heat Wave is Related to Global Warming, because global warming started in the 80's so that's why we had a heat wave then too.

Answer 6

You, like many, seem to be confused by the name.

Global "Warming" (GW) isn't just about the temperature going up. Energy can take other forms than heat, heat just seems to be the most stable, or ubiquitous, energy frequency in the biosphere (I wish someone would explain why).

The excess energy described as "Global Warming" drives the water cycle at an increased speed. This in turn creates higher pressure and temperature differentials in the atmosphere. Pressure and temperature drive weather, but so does topography. Mountains, deserts, lakes, oceans, etc.
So you cannot say that a local weather occurrence is due strictly to GW. But it is definitely influenced by it.

Your cold weather in Fla at Easter was due to intense high and low pressure systems driving the jetstream south, drawing down arctic air with it. When the jetstream dips into the American midwest and then north to Canada we benefit from the warm air carried north. The intensity of the High and Low pressure systems is directly affected by GW, the weather that results from that increased intensity is variable.

GW expresses itself as weird or extreme weather in addition to increased temperature (he says as he recalls the weather forecast for Toronto saying it would continue in the high 30s to low 40s (90s to 100s F)with half the rain of last year and most of that fell in one day. It is so hot that the rain evaporates as fast as it falls to the ground. The Great Lakes are a foot lower than they should be at this time of year.

The true signs of GW are as much the cold as the heat. It is the wildly variable extremes in weather that are the true indicators. To say it doesn't exist is either fearful or foolish.

Answer 7

Here in Austin, Texas, we have had something like 48 days in a row below normal temperatures. We have not had a summer this cool since 1908.

Answer 8

Have you ever seen a dog that passes gas and then looks around, as if to say, "what was that?"

Well, the way some people view the weather, it's very much like that. Cold days when you think it should be hot, hot days when it "should be" cold, wet when it "should be" dry - well, you get the drift - all of this is pretty much normal.

It is no real wonder to some of us that it's mostly young people who are frightened by the scare tactics of GW Alarmists. They haven't experienced the great extremes we often see in the climate from decade to decade...and more importantly, they haven't experienced the great extremes politics will stoop to when power and money are to be had.

Answer 9

No its related to being summer time.

Back in the 30s was some of the hottest temps on record. The 70s were cold. Climate goes in cycles.

Answer 10

Global warming has apparently raised the median temperature worldwide by about 2 degrees, so this heat wave would be about 2 degrees cooler if we hadn’t used so darned much Aqua Net in the 70’s and 80’s.

DAMN YOU, POOFY HAIR STYLES!!!!

Answer 11

No it's August..I've lived all over this country and it's normal for it to 100 degrees in August but somebody will blame it on global warming