my calender says summer, but my thermometer says winter. is this global warming?

Answer 1

Just two weeks ago people were saying that the heat was proof that man made global warming was real. Now that the temperatures plummeted 20 degs or more, why don't you hear them say that global warming is now over?

There will still be the die hards that will prove that record cold is proof that the Earth is warming.

Answer 2

You are talking about instantaneous local weather.

The term is global warming. And it is actually Global Climate change.

Some places will get wetter, some will have less rain, some will get more snow, some will get less. some may even get cooler as a result of changes in weather patterns.

No true climate scientist, or any one that actually has taken the time to understand climate change theory, will ever point to a specific, short duration weather event and say that is proof or disproof of a climate change.

Please stop confusing the issue. If you wish to have real debate about climate change, learn what the theory actually says. Not what you think you heard on the TV.

Answer 3

I think it's unfortunate that this question was probably asked just to encite anger, and I'm glad that people have chosen to just ignore it.
You don't agree with all the global warming hype - personally I don't think it's everything it's been made out to be either, BUT that doesn't mean there's no truth behind all the fluff - and it certainly doesn't mean we need to be fighting about something like this when we have other issues that pose more immediate threats to focus on.
COME ON - how about spending your time trying to make the world a better place instead of an angrier one. SUGGEST A SOLUTION OR TWO maybe - it might be more rewarding!

Answer 4

i'm going to respond to this and check out to overlook approximately your insults and ranting. Frankly it would not extremely help your reason via seeming so antagonistic and it additionally seems as in case you do no longer actual choose to take heed to an informed answer in view which you have made up you recommendations already. even however, you point out snow and extensive quantities falling. the place does snow come from? From the sky. and how does it get interior the sky? Evaporation. So, if this is been warmer than common in a moist place there could be greater evaporation and for this reason greater snow could fall in a chilly place. i'm in New Zealand and we are having an extremely heat summer time and a drought....... mmmmmm, i ask your self the place all the water has long previous....? additionally, i think of that in case you are attempting to be a climatologist then you definitely ought to do greater analyzing exterior Washington state, perhaps somewhat of heating could help your 'little nugget recommendations'

Answer 5

Yes and No

It could just be caused by several cold fronts coming at once without a warm front. Or it could be Global Warming effecting the climate that you usually see. The seasons are getting longer so it could just be a cold spell or Global Warming.

Answer 6

Short term weather can do pretty much anything. The trend in long term data is clear. This graph illustrates both points. Year to year the weather jumps around, but the long term trend is obvious:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

People tend to make judgements based upon what weather they see in the short run. Unfortunately climate change involves changes over many years and data. Scientists are used to dealing with that stuff, it's what they do. So they know global warming is real (and mostly caused by us). Non-scientists tend to ignore the data and go with short term perceptions. So they argue about it way more than scientists do.

There's vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686 and:

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

As Mr Jello points out, judging global warming by your short term perceptions of weather is wrong.

Answer 7

Specific examples of cold temperatures are not counterexamples to climate change. There is little doubt that average worldwide temperatures are, on average, increasing.

Answer 8

no lol. That ridicoulus. It depends on where you live...i mean summer's in Maine are colder than onees in Georgia

Answer 9

Mr Jello,

You say that you dislike accrediting specific weather events as proof for climate trends. Why not see to what the global temperature trends are instead of using alleged examples of this sort of misuse as evidence that global warming is not occurring?

Answer 10

Don't take that to the environmentalist nutjobs. They'll probably die of heart attack before they die of global warming. hahahahaha.