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Global Warming
2010. According to news reports this looks like being the coldest December for a century, since records began in 1910, and there's still January to come. I expect it won't be long before we hear the familiar warnings about global warming. I shall take a bit of convincing after this. What do you think about it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I have already read stories about global warming, instead of threatening high temperatures they are warning of perilously cold winters, personally I think they are now just guessing/clutching at straws.
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it's "global" warming, not "my street" warming. This month might be cold in Britain, but other places, and other times, have seen above average temperatures.
17 countries experienced record highs this year:
http://www.guardian.c...rd-temperatures-world
17 countries experienced record highs this year:
http://www.guardian.c...rd-temperatures-world
I recall a professor being interviewed on the BBC tea time news tellling everybody that there was an artesian well (in the south of the UK) that had almost completely run dry and he said that was due to the amount of co2 being pumped into the atmosphere. He also said that this well would never regain its total capacity because it needed severel years of heavy rain to fill it, not just the odd downpour. This was in 1995 after a series of long dry summers. For the next 5 yrs it poured down regularly, I know because I lived in a property with rising damp, which had been solved by the dry spell. I didn't see the professor on the news 5 years later apologizing for his scare mongering
My view on Global warming / cooling - and it's just my opinion - is that it's a naturally occurring cycle determined by changes in solar activity.
To presume humanity is directly responsible and that in some way we can effect it is both arrogant and ignorant.
That doesn't stop government sponsored scientists promoting gloom and doom so their paymasters can levy green taxes and push eco - technology they have a financial vested interest in though.
Massive con.
To presume humanity is directly responsible and that in some way we can effect it is both arrogant and ignorant.
That doesn't stop government sponsored scientists promoting gloom and doom so their paymasters can levy green taxes and push eco - technology they have a financial vested interest in though.
Massive con.
Understand the difference between weather and climate. At present you are experiencing particularly cold weather. That is not "global colding".
The average global temperature for 2010 is on track to be one of the highest on record.
http://www.japantoday...nd-highest-since-1891
The definitive global figures for October are available.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
I shall be interested to see December when it comes out.
While no computer can predict the weather months ahead because of many variable details, the climate is the average weather over time. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than previously and the planet's average temperature is rising. It is not rocket science to see where this will lead.
I guess you have already forgotten the recent norther summer where high temperatures and lack of rain resulted in thousands of fires burning out of control.
The average global temperature for 2010 is on track to be one of the highest on record.
http://www.japantoday...nd-highest-since-1891
The definitive global figures for October are available.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
I shall be interested to see December when it comes out.
While no computer can predict the weather months ahead because of many variable details, the climate is the average weather over time. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than previously and the planet's average temperature is rising. It is not rocket science to see where this will lead.
I guess you have already forgotten the recent norther summer where high temperatures and lack of rain resulted in thousands of fires burning out of control.
I remember way back in the 1980s Global Warming was being characterised as producing an overall rise in global temperature, measured in single digit degrees Celsius, while observed phenomena would include greature extremes of seasonal weather i.e. hotter summers, colder winters and increased likelihood of droughts or floods depending on your location.
dtgblue:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not the only mechanism that influences the retention of heat by the planet. Some of these are no understood. However the presence of these other mechanisms in no way discredits the effect of Carbon Dioxide.
There is no doubt that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere causes significantly more heat to be retained. Half of the CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activity since the start of the Industrial Revolution has occurred since 1978.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not the only mechanism that influences the retention of heat by the planet. Some of these are no understood. However the presence of these other mechanisms in no way discredits the effect of Carbon Dioxide.
There is no doubt that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere causes significantly more heat to be retained. Half of the CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activity since the start of the Industrial Revolution has occurred since 1978.