No one knows for sure. The best anyone can do is take a guess. Sure, the believers will all say that it will be warmer in 5 years, but they will never show you how they came to that conclusion.
Anything they say is just a guess. Global warming isn't a science. This is why a "consensus" is needed.
2007-11-08 05:51:24
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answer #1
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answered by Dr Jello 7
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Global Warming is a natural trend that we can do nothing about. Just like the Ice Age was a natural trend making the earth grow colder so is Global warming simply making the earth warmer. Just like the seasons make the weather warmer or colder over the year so does these weather patterns over hundreds of years. It gets colder and then warmer then colder again. The earth must adapt to these changes and some animals will not survive and new animals will evolve but we are not in any way causing these changes.
2007-11-08 08:52:51
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answered by valleygirl 2
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If you look at the average temperature record since the little ice age (LIA), globally averaged temperature trends cycle over 25-30 year periods. The last 30 years shows a rapid warming trend, and the 30 years before that shows very little warming if not some cooling. The thirty years before that shows rapid warming.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif
The periodicity of those temperature cycles coincides with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Since the little LIA, the sun has been increasing it's output gradually until just recently. In 1976 researchers noticed a rapid warming in the deeper waters of the pacific, and global surface temperatures began warming immediately after this phenomena. There are signs that the PDO has began shifting into the 25 year cool phase, there are also predictions that solar output levels will begin a steady or possibly rapid decline over the next two decades.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10may_longrange.htm
http://www.longrangeweather.com/images/gtemps2.gif
If the PDO does in fact continue to cool the Pacific and solar energy levels continue to decline, those two very powerful cooling events converging will more than likely force 5 years from now to be noticeably cooler.
A qoute from the link below:
"The subsurface tropical Pacific has shown a distinct cooling trend over the last eight years, so the possibility exists that the warming trend in global surface air temperature observed since the late 1970's may soon weaken," Giese observed."
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2007-11-08 06:54:22
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answered by Tomcat 5
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The planet may be heating up, but how can we be sure it is global warming. Are the temparatures on mars staying the same? The temperature of the surface of the sun varies from 1-3 million degrees. What if it is the heat of the sun that is changing? The earth does not rotate in a perfect circle or even on a perfect axis.
2007-11-08 08:58:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Who knows? A local meteorologist in MN, Paul Douglas, is a huge man-made GW disciple.
Even he has a blurb in the local paper concerning his forecast today that reads:
"Predicting the future is fraught with peril. Just ask CIA analysts (who failed to correctly anticipate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989). Bookies in Vegas may have a better track record, but beware of economists. There’s a saying, “God made economists to make weathermen look better.” That’s hard to do. What tech bubble? What housing bubble? We can look to the past for clues about the future, and supercomputers can input millions of variables which may nudge weather or climate in a certain direction. But, as much as people don’t want to hear this, some things are, and always will be, unpredictable – unknowable."
2007-11-08 07:22:49
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answered by Anonymous
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dana...you've always brought great arguments, even though I don't agree with you. But you baffled me with this one...
"The odds are that the planet will be warmer in 2012 than now, given the current warming trend.......But 2012 could easily be a relatively cool year.
Honestly it doesn't take a scientist to say a certain year could be warmer but it could be cooler.
2007-11-08 06:31:54
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answered by Splitters 7
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Just remember in the 1970's they were talking about the impending ice age. so will it be warmer? who really knows until we get there, it could actually be colder. The temperature will be decided by when the natural cycle of the earth changes.
2007-11-08 09:16:12
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answered by julvrug 7
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um .06 degrees Celsius isn't really that big of a temp raise stop listening to the propaganda its called a pole shift the magnetic Fields are changing that's all that's happening
i live in the north east and this summer was milder then any i have remembered in yrs so what the north east isnt getting the global warming?
if you believe what gore sold you i got a bridge to sell you
2007-11-08 06:22:24
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answered by djominous20 5
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It is absolutely impossible to predict what the Earth's temperature will be in any given year.
The odds are that the planet will be warmer in 2012 than now, given the current warming trend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png
But 2012 could easily be a relatively cool year.
However, according to a combination of meteorology and climatology, global warming is set to accelerate rapidly after 2009, with with at least half of the five following years expected to be hotter than 1998, the warmest year on record
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0837368420070809
so the chances are very good that 5 years from now the planet will be hotter.
2007-11-08 05:51:33
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answered by Dana1981 7
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well its very simple you can even feel it every year its warmer and the seasons are changing differently... well the on both north and south poles is melting and its because the atmosphere is no longer clean so it doesn't protect the earth from the sun like it used too. but yeahpeople don't realize the importance of trying to save the environment...
2007-11-08 05:54:39
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answered by JUST ME 5
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