I know the talk is about global warming but i have been hearing a lot on this forum from users that the earth is starting to cool down from the 90's.
is this really true or is it crap.
2007-11-11 09:41:45 · 11 answers · asked by inside and out 1 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Yes - 1998 (or 1934 depending on who you want to believe) was the warmest year recorded. We haven't had a year as warm since. The Earth is cooling down even though co2 has continued to increase.
Proving the Sun is the cause of warming, not co2.
2007-11-11 10:37:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not true.
Some people will try to trick you by drawing a line between 1998 and Present. 1998 was an abnormally hot year due to El Nino, so it's the hottest year on record. So if you draw a line between 1998-Present, it looks like the planet has been cooling.
However, if you do a scientific analysis and look at the 5 year trend, you'll see that the planet continues to warm quite rapidly:
http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/t1998.jpg
The only way to argue that global warming has stopped or that it's not primarily being caused by humans is to manipulate the data in a dishonest way.
2007-11-11 16:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely false. The earth has been cooling since 1998. The only way to say it has continued warming is to manipulate data. In 1976 we were "headed for a new ice age by 1990". That failed to happen. In 1989 we were "headed for global warming which will cause droubt and famine worldwide by 2000." That failed to happen. In 2006 it changed to "climate change". Now any change in temp or precipitation is caused by "climate change" which is "man made. Truth is its complete hogwash. Its a computer model that lacks the necessary data to project the weather 1 week from now much less 20 years from now.
2015-08-05 12:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by dustin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly crap.
Individual years jump around a lot. And 1998 was unusually warm. But the long term trend is still warming.
This graph shows all of that very clearly.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif
Individual years are weather. The trend is climate. A "rolling average" is the way climatologists separate the two.
Super_T has it backwards. 1934 was unusually warm in the US, but not the World (which is what you see on the above graph). In the US it was a few hundredths of a degree warmer than 1998, in the World it was over a half a degree cooler.
2007-11-11 10:03:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not true. The earth is heating up. 2006-2007 are the hottest years to date in centuries.
2007-11-11 09:45:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Recent years have been among the hottest years in the USA, but 1934 was the hottest year over the whole Earth.
2007-11-11 09:52:12 · answer #6 · answered by TBEau 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. I heard that 1998 was the warmest year, and that the last decade the Earth has cooled down measurably.
2007-11-11 09:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Frito Bandito 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I live in California near the coast and last winter we had frost every night for 30 days straight. Many of my plants froze to DEATH. On top of that, it snowed here and I went mountain biking in it. I also went hiking at Point Reyes and there was frost in the shadows at 1:00 PM. Go figure. I think you are right.
2007-11-11 11:40:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
its very much true,if u r still in school ask you teacher, or go to a library to find out or better yet tune into your local news web site.................
2007-11-14 17:23:02 · answer #9 · answered by Jae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont even know anymore. a month ago we had reccord high's and now were getting reccord low's. i have no clue anymore
2007-11-11 09:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋