do you believe that 2008 will be the hottest year due to the global warming?

Answer 1

Who knows? The weather can do anything in a single year.

Here's a very important picture to understand. Individual years jump around a lot. But the five year average (the red line) shows exactly what's happening to the world's climate.

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

Will 2008 be the warmest? I don't know. Will the average of 2008-2012 be the warmest 5 year average in over 2000 years? Almost certainly.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison_png

Answer 2

When I graduated from college the latest scientific model showed that by 2008 the growing glacier was to hit the Canada/US line.

Don't be a sucker. It's about influencing how you think, spend, vote. Global warming scare is this decade's vehicle to control you. Ask: "Who benefits when I believe in global warming?"

Answer 3

No,That global warming it's not something that is the first time earth has cycles that warmed the earth it is something that counties tries to pass the fault to the public to make us feel guilty to fix what our own countries tell us . If was something that we should take action to why there countries fighting each other look the USA.They have war with someone it seems to be like every 5 to 10 years after we stop one were looking for anouther that they try to jump into war with.Look it was saposed to be binladen.that were was gonna get after what he did 9/11 and how long did it take till usa looked over annd thought hey they have all the oil and bush can pass it on but his dad didn't get the iraq leader they figured hey we need the oil for usa and his dad didn't get him so the rejected son figured hell stay untill they get the leader and sooner or later he'll get the oil.Untill 9/11 you never heard anything about no weapons of mass distruction now they got the leader with no sigh weapons of mass distuctions.It is all about keeping the usa population down.Hey in china they limit how many kids they can have.Don't take this the wrong way but we didn't need the first gulf war the usa sticks there nose into every other countrys problems.I just don't think we should be killing our men blood in a war that we didn't belong in.And you want to ask about gloal warming hey we faught in vetnam war for what for us to loose our men and if you look at it we still have troops there and it looks alot better then before the war.And when usa desides that there done then we put the money to build it make it better then it was .There is no way they can say they don't know where biladen is.The do they will just save it when we need to slim the population then we gonna all at one time they kill more of our brothers again. They already looking at korea and saudi arabea.It will never stop untill the US has troops in every country in the would.I know i have alot of misspelled words and really don't care.Don't get me wrong 9/11 was done on purpose because after 9/11 there were alot of men had the patreotic prides.Iwould not live anywhere else because i'm proud to be animerican.Hell if i was not disabled i would have joined the military.I prey everyday for our men and woman. That they come home safe.

Answer 4

No. The warmest year on record will continue to be 1998 for at least the next 30 years. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation just went into its cooler phase and it lasts for about 30 years.

The high temps are an artifact of poor quality weather stations. When this is adjusted for, 2007 and 2008 will be seen as quite a bit cooler than 1998.

Answer 5

There's no way to tell.

The year-to-year variation in average global temperature due to natural causes is about 0.15C.

The annual increase in average global temperature due to AGW is about 0.03C.

Therefore, we expect that even though AGW is true, there will be a few 5-year-long periods per century in which the average global temperature decreases.

Answer 6

No.
Scientists don't know enough to predict when abrupt changes will occur, but they know from the Earth's history that periods of gradual change, like now, were punctuated by episodes of severe floods and droughts and sudden changes in average temperatures –

18 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 years in some places.

The committee that wrote the report was chaired by Pennsylvania State University's Richard B. Alley, who has made several trips to Greenland and Antarctica, where he and his colleagues have drilled almost two miles deep into the ice to discover what the climate was like thousands of years ago.
The records in the ice cores show repeated instances of large and abrupt climate changes in the last 100,000 years. The most notable occurred when gradual warming at the end of the last ice age triggered an abrupt cooling period, which finished with an especially sudden warming about 12,000 years ago. Since then,
less dramatic -- though still abrupt -- climate changes have occurred, including last century's rapid warming of the North Atlantic from 1920 to 1930 and the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 7

No, 2007 is on track to be the hottest year on record:

http://climateprogress.org/2007/06/14/2007-tied-for-hottest-year-on-record-so-far/

Partially because it's an El Nino year, and we're supposed to see hotter years after 2009, according to predictions based on a combination of meteorology and climatology:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0837368420070809

So 2008 will actually be one of the cooler years in the near future.

Answer 8

I doubt it.

None have beaten the record year of 1934.

That was the hottest year on record according to NASA.

Answer 9

It may be earlier also. From then onwards, it may be a regular phenomenon. Global Warming is not a threat but a reality. The way in which we are practising preservation and protection of natural resources is far from satisfactory. Even burning bulbs are contributing to global warming. It is our bounden duty to keep some natural resources for our future generations. Otherwise, they will be literally "power"less. Look at the following World Bank honored innovative project and be a part of a brigade which is out to preserve the world.
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Answer 10

it could be a hot year but i doubt from global warming.i remember some very mild winters/hot summers.when i was younger.i also remember when i was younger listening to a woman who told me when she was my age they had winters /hot summers. just like the one we had last year.we may have a global warming thing going on but its not as bad as they are saying.the media and scientists do tend to over react to get attention.