is global warming responsible for the "freak" weather we are experiencing?

Answer 1

Yes Global warming is responsible for global climate changes. Let me explain a few of them.

Excessive flooding. Despite this seemingly being contradictory to global warming, in fact it is not. Flooding is caused by rainfall and rainfall is caused by clouds reaching their water holding thresh-hold. This thresh-hold is reached due to the evaporation of groundwater into the atmosphere. There have been a few isolated rain deluges in the planet's history, what is changing is the occurrence of massive rain patterns around the globe which is culminating into even worse flooding in some area due to this cumulative effect. The United Kingdom and Texas are just the tip of the ice berg places like BC Canada, which are known for extreme amounts of rainfall broke all their records last winter and even experienced a tornado! This brings me to my second point.

Tornados. Tornados are caused by the meeting of two temperature fronts, one being warm and the other being cold. Typically this has been a problem of the Midwest and would go up as far as Edmonton in the prairie regions. The Mediterranean climate of BC had previously shielded it from tornados but now it seems that BC now falls within this new "range" which is affected by these phenomena. So too is Florida which was hit with a few tornados last year, one which was quite destructive and devastating. The destructiveness of these tornados is dictated by the temperature difference between the two temperature fronts, so global warming is not just responsible for increasing the range of tornados, but also their strength.

Hurricanes and Cyclones. Very closely related to Tornados are Hurricanes and Cyclones, except these beasts get their energy from the warmth and evaporation of the oceans. Global warming has a direct influence on the strength of these storms, and by warming the Atlantic and pacific oceans global warming also provides the ability for these storms to strike farther North on the Eastern Seaboard of North America and further south in Oceania into New Zealand and Australia.

Temperature extremes. Well this seems an obvious one, what is actually of utmost concern is not the temperatures in individual areas, but in the planet as a whole. In the past abnormalities would occur, but if you look at all of the global temperature stations as a whole while some areas were hot, others were cold and the overall "average" was much lower then it is today. Global warming has enabled many places on the earth to simultaneously come close to, reach or even surpass temperature records and, historically speaking, the collective global average is continually breaking new ground because their are less cool places to even it out.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as global warming it is political ploy to charge you MORE taxes.

There are however, holes in the ozone layers at the 2 poles caused by all the rockets that send up satellites and other things into space like probes and the spacestation that America and Russia are building.

As for "Freak" weather this is not so as the weather pattern becomes extreme not freak every 10 - 11 years usually when our sun has its sunspots which are storms, amongst other things it scrambles our radio signals.

20 years ago 1987 we had a hurrican that brought down millions of trees but before the great wind it had rained almost non-stop for 3 months making the ground so soggy that the trees had nothing to hold their roots to.

1976 was heatwave year hardly any rain from April until October.

Back beyond that in 1947 we had snow that lasted for 3 months not like the few days or weeks we have now.

So as I said above extreme is not freak.

Answer 3

previous announcing that rings real, the climate, all and sundry talks approximately, no person ever does some thing approximately it. reason it relatively is a kinda actuality. we could not greater initiate a hurricane than end one. we can't even make it rain in drought aspects. (see Lake Lanier) sure i've got have been given faith that the business enterprise revolution or era of coal and fossil gas burning did placed alotta junk indoors the greater effective atmosphere. And sure, i've got have been given faith that this had an effect on some atmospheric circumstances. inspect a Volcano, one erupts, and the worldwide cools. we could stay a 'greener' existence form if no longer for us then for the subsequent 3 generations of persons,flowers,animals and fishies. i do no longer see some thing happening in a posative way on a similar time as the inhabitants doubles each and every 2 an prolonged time, then 10 years, and now 3 years. it quite is an exponetial form that shows no sign of slowing, so enable the Earth shake us off and initiate over. we can't even 'keep' a community of wood, or a physique of sparkling water, i do no longer see human beings protecting palms and saving an entire planet. a concepts as climate and climate pass, sure, they're interconnected, inspect NOOA counsel sheets. An El Nino or perhaps if happens one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and temps pass up or down, we actually won't be in a position to be beneficial which inserts to be, nor are we waiting to stunt or slow any unfavorable impacts that it does carry. a rather clever guy as at as quickly as as suggested: there is one consistent indoors the common Universe. replace.

Answer 4

Having been on this planet now for over half a century, I've seen it all before, the three month winter of 1963, the drought of 1976, and loads of odd spasms in between.

We have always had these freak weather spells, so nothing is new.

Reading the Kyoto predictions, the predicted global temperature rise is far less than the computers predicted, mainly because computers can be programmed to give any desired result.

I don't like to use the term 'Global warming' as it gives a false impression as to global climate change, some places could get considerably colder, either of which, as humans, are able to adapt to.

Answer 5

"Global warming" is a term invented by the media to scare us. That is not to say that is does not exist as it does, but scientists call it "climate change" as not all areas of the world will warm up at first. The Earth naturally passes through phases of warmth, then cold ice ages and that is why some people will not believe that there is a problem. However since the industrial revolution, us humans building factories, expanding our population demands and burning fossil fuels has caused a period of warming that is much quicker and much faster than that which occurs naturally over hundreds of years and as a result we are encountering extreme, or "freak" as you put it, weather. Droughts in Africa are worsening, sea ice in the north pole is not freezing properly and polar bears are threatened with extinction, hurricanes and tsunamis are worsening in intensity. In the UK we are kept warm by the gulf stream, a warm water current from the Caribbean, if climate change continues this current will change direction and stop warming us and our climate will get much wetter and much colder. With all the flooding that has happened recently from just a few day's rain, you can imagine the impact this will have. So in short, yes 'global warming' is responsible for the freak weather - and it will only get worse unless we do something about it.

Answer 6

It certainly would appear so. The rain came out of season with a lot of force and persistence.

A lot of ice fell into the sea this year and a lot of water has been sucked into the air. Therfore a lot of rain has fallen upon the British planes and now Europe's getting it as well.

Even some top environmental scientists disagree on whether the "freak" weather is caused by GW. To me, it's an overwhelming "yes".

After all 2+2=4

Answer 7

That's a good question. The scientists I've heard think global warming is probably a contributing factor. This kind of weather is what we can expect as global warming gets worse.

But--given the complexities, they aren't making definitive statements yet. What they'll look for is a longer term trend--not jsut one year. If --over the next 3-5 years--we see a pattern of such weather continuing to recur, and analysis connects events to the temperature increases, then they'll be able to say for sure.

But--that's the conservative view. And on such matters, scientists tend to be very conservative about drawing conclusions. In practice, its pretty much a sure bet that the weird weathher is coming from global warming--at least in part.

Answer 8

If there's anything science has thought us is that nothing is impossible. It is likely that the global warming has caused the current as you put it "freak" weather within the last few years; resulting from the lack of deep water formation, which potentially can alter convection via water transport on the surface of the Earth. Of course this is all theory.

Answer 9

What is passing for freak weather is creating a milder summer where I live, so if its caused by global warming, then I'm an enthusiastic supporter of it.

Answer 10

omg MOST DEF! the heat waves, the strange weather at strange times... it's all because of this global warming. be sure to recycle as much as possible, try using your car less frequently (and instead take the trolley or use the underground), and switch your light bulbs to flourecent (they last 4x longer and don't produce as much heat). Hope i helped =]