Is global warming getting too much credit?

Question

Not all the weather problems are caused by global warming, but the media seems to think so. What about La Nina?

Answer 1

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 2

The severity of La Nina, El Nino and other weather related events are in direct proportion to the state of the atmosphere. If humans are causing changes in the balance of the environment that result in the greenhouse effect (aka global warming), then the obvious answer would be no.

A better question would be "What credit can each of us take on a daily basis that helps reduce the advance of global warming?"

You really should watch "An Inconvenient Truth"-- everyone should. I saw it 2 days ago for the first time and my eyes were opened to a lot of things I never knew.

Watch it, then make your own decisions about global warming hype...

Answer 3

Indeed.

I can’t help thinking that, if no one had told us about the horrors of global warming, we wouldn’t even have noticed any change yet.

Despite this we regularly get told: “How can you not believe in global warming? Just look around you!”

Equally concerning is the way that the global warming supporters confirm that an individual weather event cannot be linked to global warming, but then go suspiciously quite whenever anyone makes such a link. It seems to be a case of “They may be wrong, but as long as it scares them onto the bandwagon, that’s fine – so I’ll keep quiet.”

Frankly, this kind of dubious behaviour makes me doubt the confidence they have in their own claims.

The best example of this kind of behaviour is An Inconvenient Truth. It was labelled as alarmist and exaggerated by a British court of law recently, but the Alarmists still support it as a valid source to use to teach our children.

They *should* be saying “Our case is strong enough that we don’t need Gore’s exaggerated nonsense to convince people.” Instead we hear “It got the basic science right so it’s a valid source.”

I say rubbish! An Al Qaeda recruiting video may get the basic facts about Islam correct, but does that mean it would make a good source to teach our children about the Islamic faith? Hardly.

As ever with global warming - don't believe the hype.

Answer 4

All I hear on this forum is how global warming caused this flood or that storm was so severe due to global warming. I don't think it is because of the media, it is because of the mis-informed global warming crusaders.

Answer 5

You're confusing climate with weather. Weather can't be predicted with any accuracy more than 5 days out.

Climate can be accurately predicted 100 years from now without any error because the computer models are that good, and because the climate is so well understood by the consensus.

Anyone who says differently just doesn't understand the difference between climate and weather.

Answer 6

If somebody says that an individual weather event is due to global warming, then yes, they're giving it too much credit.

It depends on who you're referring to. If you're talking about scientists, then no, they don't give global warming too much credit. If you're talking about weathermen, then maybe they do.

Answer 7

Well, the world as we know it is dying, for the first time in history, scientists have found polar bears that have drowned because they couldn't find ice.And thats only one of the many disasters that have happened.

The real question is: why isn't global warming getting more credit?

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Simply put....yes!