Are you ready?

Question

we are suppose to have our first snow tomorrow being brought in by 45 mph winds! I am not ready to look at snow for 6 months, When is the greenhouse going to take affect, I have to ask myself.

Answer 1

It's clear that you got this forecast from a weatherman, not a climatologist.

Weathermen don't have a clue to what's going on. They are almost always wrong.

You should ask a climatologist to predict the weather. That way it will always be warmer in the future.

Answer 2

Sorry; but where do you live? Let me guess..... Yep, I thought so.

The greenhouse effect is a whole of world problem, not specifically isolated to your insular part of the world that does not know the rest of the world is out there.

The greenhouse effect has caused the oceans to warm slightly, which has a marked effect on the carbon dioxide levels that the sea can hold dissolved, and we continue to pump more out into the atmosphere (don't give me the line that volcanoes produce more CO2 than the rest of the world.- probably still true; but humans are narrowing the gap).

Heating on all winter, air-conditioning on all summer. Yes I know, you need it. I don't. Only when there are extremes. Even then, maybe not. I'm not a zealot; and in fact not a very efficient energy conserver; but at least I know I can do better, and am trying. Though I do relapse occasionally.

I know there is a problem, regardless of the politicians, the ostriches, the greenies, the extremists (at both ends of the spectrum).

If the greenhouse was so warm that you wouldn't need to look at several months of snow, don't worry, there'd be none, and also there wouldn't be you (or me).

Check out the California fires, the recent Greek ones, the ones in Australia that have started months earlier than usual, the receding of the polar caps.

The world's average temperature is going up; but the distance you are inland from the oceans means that the oceans have little to no effect on your local weather conditions. Hence you won't notice too much of a change until it's too late, perhaps. And in any case, you have crazy, unpredictable, dangerous, violent weather at times.

Answer 3

There is no doubt that CO2 in the air makes the lower atmosphere slightly warmer, but climate sensitivity has been over estimated.

Stephen Schwartz of Brookhaven National Laboratory published a new peer-reviewed paper with a much lower estimate of climate sensitivity based on ocean heat content measurements. It appears that the warming is coming more from internal climate variability than most climatologists thought.

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation just went into its cool phase. If the is the climate driver it appears to be, we may have cooler temps for the next 30-40 years. The PDO was in a warm phase from 1905-1945 and temps went up. It was in a cool phase from 1945-1975 and temps went down. It was in a warm phase from 1975-2006.

I think you will have to wait a while for warmer temps.

Answer 4

Ya..I'm ready for some cooler temps. That's probably why God made 4 seasons for us....so we don't get bored with the weather.
I don't think that snow is in the immediate forecast, at least not for where I live, but it is coming this winter and I'll have a lot of fun playing in it.
I'll have even more fun watching the yuppies in their 4x4 SUVs stuck in the ditchline because they don't know how to drive ...LOL....just like last winter...as I chug along in my Miata.

Then will come spring which has to be my favorite season next to summer, fall, and winter..my other favorite seasons.

Answer 5

In England, within my lifetime, so by 2050 its estimated that average temperatures will be like 40/45 or even 50 degrees in summer. Thats the middle east nowadays
England only peaks 30 max in summer.... :(
I don't like the heat

Answer 6

wat a question