2007-10-03 01:32:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
It seems like temps are always significantly above the average and almost never below.
2007-10-03 01:33:08 · update #1
Well, Indian Summer is the warm temperature we experience after a killing frost, or below freezing, 32 degrees farenheit. You must have the freezing temperature before the summery temps for it to be consedered an episode of Indian Summer.
However, global warming is having a much more significant and negative impact on the world than indian summer. I like Indian Summers, but global warming needs to go.
2007-10-03 04:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by endpov 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to check your "seems like" against what the "consensus" says about global warming. According to the IPCC (AR4), man-made global warming is due to warmer night-time lows and fewer cold days, NOT an increase in the daytime highs. For example, if your normal day time high were 90 F and night lows were 65 F, then with global warming, you might have the same high 90 F, but a low of 68 F - the net effect is an increase in the average temperature.
This is how they say the world has heated up by 0.7 C in the last 160 years.
BTW, do you ever wonder why or when they came up with the term, "Indian Summer"? It goes back at least to the 1700s, long before the auto and the Industrial Revolution...
http://www.answers.com/topic/indian-summer
2007-10-03 03:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by 3DM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Indian summer by definition is a warm spell after a hard frost before actual winter sets in. Warmer temps are not Indian Summer.
2007-10-03 03:15:15 · answer #3 · answered by Kathi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We must distinguish between weather and climate.
Weather is what is happening now. climate is the general trends in the weather.
Just because one summer is hotter than another isn't indicative of global warming; this is weather. A series of warmer weather over a few years tends to indicate climate change; this is climate.
It is really important to realise the difference between the two, as the press and media seem to label climate change on every extreme singular weather event, which is wrong. However, this currently sells papers so they will continue to do so to keep the profits coming in.
2007-10-03 02:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by ktrna69 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in Austin, Texas. We had an unusually cool and wet summer here.
2007-10-03 02:09:57 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋