Getting Warmer are you sure?

Question

Here its starting to get colder in New York started snowing in the polar icecaps the ice is started to freeze over so how much does Al gore know or is this starting to backfire? Or are they going to say its another ice age.

here is north carolina

oh so it couldn't be because its just winter

Answer 1

It's going to be so funny when temperatures start to drop.

Warmers will be just like the Y2K freaks who thought planes would drop out of the sky at the stroke of midnight on Dec 31, 1999.

Answer 2

If it's only just starting the freeze in North Carolina then it's certainly a lot warmer than normal.

Take Raleigh for example, the first snows usually arrive in Novermber and by this point in December there would normally have been 14 days below freezing.

For somewhere coastal and at low altitude such as Wilmington it's normal for snow to have fallen by now and in an 'average' year there would have already been 8 days of sub zero temperatures.

On the other hand, in somewhere such as Andrews the first snows normally arrive in October and by now there would normally have been 41 days of below freezing temperatures.

If it's just started snowing in New York then it's late arriving. If we take Central Park as an example then it's normally mid Novermber when the first snows fall - the same across the whole of New York City.

Bear in mind, these are the normal averages. Because of rising temperatures the number of frost days has been decreasing and the onset of the first snows has been getting later.

As for the Arctic, like the rest of the world it has seasons and in fall / winter it gets colder and the ice reforms, during spring / summer it warms and the ice retreats. The problem is that the retreat of ice each year exceeds the reformation.

There can't be another ice age - not for a very long time at least. The mechanisms by which the greenhouse gases retain heat within the atmopshere ensure that the planet will keep warming for 60 to 80 more years even if we cut our emissions to zero with immediate effect. Further, the long term natural trend is one of slow warming. An ice age could only come about in the foreseeable future as a result of a cataclysmic event such as a massive asteroid impact or as a short term 'ice age' following a large scale nuclear exchange.

Answer 3

This gives me a chance to write: The snow fall in the South Pole is less than ONE INCH per year. Thank you. Some think the snowfall in the Antarctic is much greater.
Did you know the Arctic Ocean lost a Million square miles of ice MORE this summer compared to last summer? Changing a million square miles MORE, from sun reflecting ice white to heat absorbing ocean blue.
The Northwest Passage opened from Atlantic to Pacific (1845 Franklin Expedition was trapped by ice while looking water passage to the Pacific and 129 died.)
And, in 15 July, 2007: British Lewis Pugh, swam in the North Pole wearing goggles, a cap and Speedo Trunks: 19 min.
Record low level in lakes: Superior, Mead and Okeechobee.
The Sierra Nevada lost 20 percent of its ice over the last 20 years, where is the water needed in Los Angeles and San Diego? California grows by 500,000 people per year.

Central Asia’s Aral Sea, world's 4th- largest lake in 1960, lost 60% its area by 1998, level dropped 60 ft, lost 3/4 of its water.
Do you plan to go to another planet and return 10,000 years from now, when the current Ice Cycle is completed?

Answer 4

OK, when we say GLOBAL WARMING that means the EARTH"S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE is rising, and the last time I checked New York does not make up the entire world! Sorry to burst your bubble.

p.s.
It is currently a few days before the start of winter in the U.S. and you live in a region that is typically cold.
In case you didn't know.

Answer 5

Relish the mild winters that you have experienced, they will be just a memory in a few years. Oh.. one more thing, I just love it when someone says, there just can't be another ice age. To mislead people by saying such nonsense is immoral.

From the link below.

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At the moment the Earth is passing through an interglacial period. This has lasted for around 10,000 years following the last Ice Age, which in turn went on for some 100,000 years. It would appear from historical climatic evidence that this ice age/interglacial pattern was established at the beginning of this ice epoch. Perhaps ominously for man, the pattern suggests that ice ages last around 100,000 years on average and the shorter, warmer interglacials around 10,000 – so we are nearing the end of our current warmer period.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/iceage_01.shtml

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Answer 6

One theory is that global warming is melting the ice near the poles, and the cold water from the melted ice runs in the oceans close to many cities, making them colder. But that's just a theory. (And it's not mine, so I didn't make it up.)

Answer 7

average temperatures are rising u stil get hot and cold days and localized weather patterns winters are getting shorter milder on average

Answer 8

in the 1980's they were preaching the new ice age.
now it's global warming.
I believe the earth has cycles.

Answer 9

global warming is a natural process, we are just drastically speeding it up.

Answer 10

agreed.

but WOW, i cant believe they have a whole section on global warming. That's just sad...