Is there a such thing as Global Warming seriously I want a really smart person to answer this!!?

Question

It is almost December is Global Warming the reason it isn't even very cold here? It usually snows the 1st 6in in October were I live!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The climate can never be the same. Over time the climate will either warm or cool. This is only natural.

Yes, the climate has warmed slightly. The last 10 years there has been a very slight cooling.

In time, the Earth will cool again. Change is the only thing that stays the same.

Answer 2

Bob always sites that admiral as "proof" but the truth is that there is no proof that humans have influenced the climate significantly. Those that suggest that we have are ignorant of their own ignorance and don't understand the limits of our current knowledge and technology. Generally they are pushing an agenda, generally a leftist agenda, and generally that involves suggesting that everything that has to do with human beings, industry, corporations, and free markets is bad. That is why they pretend that a little warming is going to be destructive. They refuse to acknowledge what common sense tells you, that some warming will also have beneficial effects and probably will outweigh the negative effects. By ignoring the positive effects, they prove they have an agenda and also prove that the modern "global warming" is more political than science. Is there some warming? Yes. Is man responsible? Possibly for a little? Is it all negative? Of course not. Rejoice in your warm late November because you are likely to be pretty cold soon and wishing for more global warming.

Answer 3

Global Warming isn't to blame for one warm December. Yeah the warmest 10 years on record have occurred in the last 14 years with 2005 being the hottest. Global Warming is happening but its not responsible for a warm December, at least not yet. What is going on here, is the weather pattern is a bit off. Weather is a current state of the atmosphere and climate is the average of several 100 years. One warm December doesn't really mean anything, all it means is an abnormally warm winter.

And yes i do believe in "Global Warming."

Answer 4

Yes, global warming is serious and real. But the question should be, is it due to our polluting the atmosphere or is it a normal part of the earth's evolutionary cycle?

There have always been variations in weather due to various atmospheric anomalies. Next year may well bring snow earlier than this year.

Someone wrote recently that they were reading a child's book on dinosaurs, and it referred to at time when the earth was much warmer than it is today. So are we just headed back to a warmer climate, or should the earth be normally cooling and we are interfering with that process?

There are compelling thoughts on both sides of this issue. For sure, the pollution we spew into the atmosphere cannot be healthy for the environment. Whether or not this contributes to global warming is an issue I hope can be resolved before it's too late.

Answer 5

There are a lot of reasons for global warming or global cooling, and it's called natural climate change. This is what the planet does. Nothing is constant. We have been in a warming trend since the end of the last ice age, approx. 10,000 years ago. In another 100,000 years or so we will be in a cooling trend and eventually Canada, most of No. Eastern U.S.A., and northern Europe will be under ice sheets as they were before. Yes, it's true. Read any book on climatology and you will have the facts.

Answer 6

just because it isn't snowing yet, may or may not be an effect of global warming. for those who say it is a theory need to catch up on the gossip. it is no longer a theory but a process the earth goes through continuously through its lifetime. However, man is speeding up this process, and carbon dioxide emmissions are depleteing the ozone layer. Which means our "protective layer" is no longer protecting us from the sun like it should be. therefore, it gets hotter and hotter each year. and it's not just Co2, it's chlorofluorocarbons as well.

Chlorofluorocabons(CFCs) come from aerosol cans such as hairspray and other cleaning and household items. When chlorofluorocarbons are released into the atmosphere, the carbon molecules detach and "meet up" with other ozone molecules, the detach again, "killing" the ozone molecules. the cycle continues over and over. but since there are so many CFC molecules the ozone molecules cannot replenish them selves. Therefore, the ozone is vanishing.

for more facts on global warming go to stopglobalwarming.org

Answer 7

The earth naturally goes through (and has gone through) periods of warmer and cooler temperatures (like the ice ages). So climate change on a large scale is nothing new, and not controversial. What is controversial is whether man's activities on this planet can, and are, pushing us toward a warming spell. What is proven are instances in history of large volcanic eruptions cooling the planet for decades (and I even read one that posited that the great plague led to less deforestation, which led to more carbon absorption and cooler temperatures in the decades following). You get a lot of really impassioned people on both sides of the debate yelling without really presenting convincing evidence - only 'soundbites'. It's silly to think that all our pollution and destruction has no effect on our delicate ecosystem, but what the consequences will be may be more complicated than we can predict (look at global dimming). We're already experiencing more extreme weather. And while I, personally, think global warming is a pretty likely hypothesis, we will all get to see for ourselves in the coming decades.

Answer 8

If you haven't chosen a side on this by now maybe it would help if you look at the bigger picture. The climate does change and weather or not people have caused any of it does not matter. The real issue is polution of the air, land and water and pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is just a small part of the total problem of polution. Why not fix the problem and stop the finger pointing and dumb projects to reduce the use of energy? This is a problem that has been growing for a few centuries and there are lots to things that need more attention than global warming.

Answer 9

Global warming is very real and we are the contributors to the unnatural side of this.

Weather is the interaction of 3 things which are water vapor, air pressure(warm or cold air) and temperature. It is changes in any of the three factors that will change weather.

There has been a misconception about surface temperatures of the planet and UV wasn't considered for what it is.

Why do you protect your skin from UV?

The same UV that burns you is causing the excitation of solar exposed buildings and generating heat close to boiling temperature. That heat is contributing to lower air pressure and changing weather. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html to see a brief summary of 17,000 hours worth of research supporting the science.

Answer 10

Yes. But your local weather right now is not proof. Global warming is a slow, global change. This is proof.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html
summarized at:
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

It's (mostly) not the sun:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html

And the first graph above shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.

Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html

There's a large number of people who agree that it is real and mostly caused by us, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many:

"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/412.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=412&nid=&id=

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know... Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point. You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 11

Sure there is. Cooling, too. Right now, we're in a warming trend. The warming, though, is very slow and gradual. Any difference between colder or warmer on a given date, is almost entirely due to normal seasonal variations. Where I live, N.E., I have seen it snow 6" on the 6th of Nov., and also seen no snow at Christmas. Mert