What are signs of global warming in your area?

Question

Do you believe it is real? I see signs of it everywhere in Calif.

Answer 1

The Ponderosa Bark Beetle infestation! Normally cold winter temperatures kill the Larvae. If this keeps up... Flagstaff will become a desert.

Answer 2

I believe global warming is real I also think there are cycles the earth goes through warming and freezing.

If you watched Matt Lauer yesterday in the Arctic you saw how the waters are not completely solid ice yet and here it is november. They haven't been for about a decade. This affects the habitat of the polar bears and other animals, although man thinks it's hunky dorey because now they can ship things all year long and there's going to be a fight for the oil and gas reserves there.

The great lakes levels are down. The honeybees disappeared and now some of the song birds are disappearing as well. Canada has had its hottest summers since record keeping started in the past few years.

Southern Ontario which rarely had smog alerts ,now has them regularly each summer sometimes up to a dozen a year.

We get strange weather, monstrous rain storms, heavy snow blizzards but temps in my part of Niagara are not as cold as they were fifty years ago in winter when I was a kid and then there are the dry spells and huge forest fires and idiot arsonists whether they are children or adults .

All I know is with governments saying it doesn't exist and trotting out their paid scientists to fight with other scientists who say it does and big multimational corporate oil and gas threatening to leave if they don't get their way wherever they are , something is definitely different in and on the planet. And we all bear the responsibility .

Answer 3

OF course it is real...the only ones in a state of denial are residing in the White House, where ALL are instructed to edit all scientific studies to delete Global warming. Here in Orange County, CA, we have not had significant rain for 4-5 years! The midwest and Eastern shores were in such a state of drought this year that the crops have died, lawns are a great tone of brown, little color will appear in the trees. And it will be argued that it is a natural cycle..well of course it is...but NOT at this rate....the amount of CO adn CO 2 are 43 times all known records dating back to ice core samples from the artic and antartic! We are building a monstrous green house here, and the windows cannot be opened to let in cool air. I won't be here to see NYC, Miami, hell, 1/2 Florida, New Orleans all be under water...but it is happening now, islands in the Pacific are disappearing with populations having to move, Hong Kong is home to millions upon millions and it will be under water...where are all those people going to go? There are some real advantages to being a Senior. Love and Peace, Phil

Answer 4

properly it is November and that i'm nevertheless donning shorts / short sleeve shorts up in north east TN. We used to get snow right here all of the time, now we are fortunate if we get an inch or 2 whilst it does snow... which finally ends up being possibly 3-5 days the completed season. Lakes are down any the place from 15 - 30 ft. Leaves are frequently long gone by way of now, yet an incredible variety of timber have not even began changing colorings yet. we are 20 inches under favourite rain fall.

Answer 5

I see climate change! The humming birds arrive three weeks earlier in the spring than they ever have before. We used to get deep snow and weather below zero every winter. Now if it gets into the 20degrees range it is really doing something and there is hardly any snow these days. It is much hotter in the summertime than I've seen in the past. Perhaps it is a normal Earth cycle but is certainly different.

I still want the air and water cleaned up..simply because it is better for the health of all of us--human and animal. If it eventually changes the climate back so much the better.

Answer 6

Of course, it's real. The climate does also go in cycles.
While global warming is real, scientists say that we are
also in an interglacial period.
I live in the same area of the country as Sage Seeker,
and have noticed the same things. It's November here
and some of the trees still have green leaves, where
normally they have lost them by this time.

Answer 7

I do believe it's real, but I haven't seen any major changes in my area. I always think that winters get colder and summers get hotter, but that may just be in my own mind. I've started keeping a garden record this year, noting what I see as unusual changes in temps and weather. Next spring when it's time to start planting again I will have something to compare with.

Answer 8

yes it has been the driest year ever on record here in Tennessee,we dont have many snows eny more and it has just now turned a little cold.and the trees are in full color finally.also the birds dont seem to be many like their was before. i use to wake up every morning to their wonderful melodies now all i hear is a occasional hawk or the sound of a distance crow.i have seen wild life out in the open looking for food and water like i have never seen before. in 2 weeks time we counted 4 dead red foxes where we had never seen them out of the woods before. also 2 bears were shoot and all the elk that they released in the south fork area almost half they found to be in a starvation state. i worry about my grand kids future and wonder will their be ONE?

Answer 9

Yes, of coarse it's real! And it's dangerous and about to flood people who live near the oceans. Some signs of it in my are are:
- warm winters
- going from cold to hot in just a day
ex: on June 14 its hot outside, but the nest day, it's 31 degrees farenheight!
- ice caps are melting every where!( this isn't in my area, but it's a big sign of global warming)

Answer 10

The eastern bluebirds are arriving earlier along with the white throated sparrows and ruby throated humming birds
chicadees are nesting earlier
it hasn't fallen below zero in 8 years
We have preying mantis reproducing in our prairie. It used to be too cold