Are people becoming more sceptic towards global warming if they face a cold winter?

Question

Do you believe that every month and every year on a local level (or even global) has to be warmer than the previous year or corresponding month to make global warming true?

The average rate of increase/year is currently close to 0.02 degrees Celsius per year on a global scale. Will you notice and is global warming a fraud if you don't?

Answer 1

It seems a lot of people would do that but the would be incorrect in doing so because global warming refers to climate which is a long period of time.

Answer 2

Environmentalist groups will always want power over mans coming and going. If not global warming , it will be something else to scare us until proven wrong

Answer 3

Global warming is not a fraud. Everyone else in the world believes in global warming other than the USA, every other country is trying to convince our president to help stop global warming, but he it too concerned about more important things (sarcasm) like the war, money, oil, having another republican elected....

Lily

Answer 4

It has been very cold here.

Answer 5

it is a fact! look at the glaciers in Greenland they are vanishing! i know a doctor who visits there and Antarctica every year,he comes back very sad. the pictures in gores movie don't lie! he has first hand photos of his own, the doc i mean, and over the past 30yrs he's been going to these places the pic's of the same things are unbelievable too see! there may be climate cycles and odd weather , but mountains of melted glaciers do not lie!!! especially when 30 years worth are in your face! i have viewed them several times. WE ALL MUST ACT!!! BIG-G,,,

Answer 6

i saw a show a couple weeks ago about global warming leading to a mini ice age. the rise in temperature will continue till it affects the wind and ocean currents thus keeping warm air from reaching areas it used to.

when i started to learn about global warming i expected it to get hotter every year, but it's been the opposite. for the past 5 years the summers in Chicago have been shorter

Answer 7

I do believe Global Warming is true. More and more start to believe it is true, because they can see with their own eyes. Today, people are intelligent, we don't believe everything we hear from others. We're starting to learn how to see things and not influence by other people easily. Sooner or later everyone are going to believe Global Warming is true. No matter how hard we try right now, like recycling, or carpool. There is some help, but it will NOT completely stop Global Warming. Decades ago, scientists already warned Humans, but nobody listened. Now, we have to pay for what we did.

Answer 8

Since the observed global warming is a 100+ year trend,

would one cold January in one area disprove it?  Of course not.

A cool winter was expected this year in the Northern Hemisphere due to the strong La Nina cooling influence, just as the hot 1998 was expected from the strong El Nino warming influence.

Here's an excerpt from NASA Director Dr. James Hansen's response:

"The large short-term temperature fluctuations have no bearing on the global warming matter or the impacts of global warming..."

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2...

Dr. James Hansen also comments on the unexpected heat of 2007:

"The Southern Oscillation and the solar cycle have significant effects on year-to-year global temperature change. Because both of these natural effects were in their cool phases in 2007, the unusual warmth of 2007 is all the more notable. It is apparent that there is no letup in the steep global warming trend of the past 30 years (see 5-year mean curve in Figure 1a).  'Global warming stopped in 1998' has become a recent mantra of those who wish to deny the reality of human-caused global warming. The continued rapid increase of the five-year running mean temperature exposes this assertion as nonsense."

"The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990."

It's funny how the denialists won't believe 1200 months of data showing warming, but they're quick to make a lot of noise about a few cold months, no matter how expected that cooling might be (La Nina).

shapeshifter -

This chart was at the link you provided:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/...

It shows the net global ice anomaly (growth vs. melting) at pretty close to zero now, not the +3 million miles you claim.  That page also mentions that the ice forming in the Arctic is a thin single winter thickness, replacing the much thicker multi-year ice that melted last Summer.  Since the charts only show surface area, not volume, they hide the loss of thickness and mass.

Answer 9

No...when the global average is the coldest winter in decades, people question alarmists' doom and gloom predictions.  It's obvious we've been in a warming trend since the last Ice Age, man's contribution to this trend is immeasurably small.

Answer 10

According to the IPCC, if the co2 level rises, the temp should rise with it.  How can prolonged below average weather happen on such a large scale if this is true?  If it were accurate, we would have an above average winter, not a below average winter.  I know you are experiencing a warm winter over in europe, but im convinced the north atlantic current is to blame for that.

Currently, sea ice in the northern hemisphere is still increasing!  Usually by this time the thaw has begun.  In the southern hemisphere, the sea ice has already started increasing.  At this time last year, this was not happening.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/...

People always mention " there is a negative anomoly of sea ice at the northern hemisphere".  They never mention there is, and has been for some time, a positive anomoly of sea ice at the south pole.  The anomolies are almost equal, except the anomoly at the south pole is GREATER than the anomoly at the north pole, meaning there is a global NET anomoly of +.3-.6 million sq miles.

Answer 11

Most people are skeptical towards any subjective science, as they should be.  Global warming is a good example of subjective science.

Only objective science should be accepted as factual.

Answer 12

Some people think it is a fraud. But others dont. As long as there is scientific proof that will be the answer.

Answer 13

They rationilize everything by stating every weather pattern is the result of "Man Made Global Warming" so it really does not matter. The new term is "Climate Change" and they are sticking to their guns on this. Their untlimated goal is for a UN controlled world economy to bring down the wealthy to the level of the poor. They are against the rise of the poor because they need them to make people feel guilty about achivement in life. Environemtalists are the most evil of people on Earth. They managed to get DDT banned so millions of people are killed in Africa from Malaria each year, they make it so they can not build power plants to modernize and thus they will be forever in a state of poverty. 0.02 degrees celsius hardly seems like a major change in world average temps so I will continue to be sceptical.

Answer 14

No, that would be rather silly to think that each and every day, month, year must be warmer than the previous one. There are other influences on climate other the greenhouse gases. The article, "Doubts about the Advent of Spring" illustrates just how silly such a belief is.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

The real reason why the deniers become stauncher in their beliefs despite mounting evidence (and no winter and a La Nina do not prove that global warming is a “fraud”) is neocons party discipline. (I’d bet that these very same guys also believe that the war in Iraq is going great, despite the fact that ethnic cleansing was completed under our watch, one full year after the surge Iraqi leaders are still no closer to a political settlement, and the is still no exit plan in sight.)

"The more I've listened to global warming deniers, the more I've realized that for most of them, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SCIENCE. These guys don't go five minutes without attacking Al Gore or comparing climate activists to socialists who want to destroy capitalism. Deniers are part of a political culture that frames the world in terms of left and right, so they've absorbed global warming into that broader paradigm of partisan politics."[1]

See fellow answerer gcnp58 response here to a similar question:  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 15

Not really.  The people around here that claim to be skeptics, aren't real skeptics.  They are closed-minded ideologues that filter out any evidence that doesn't fit their belief system.  Neither a cold winter or a hot summer would change their beliefs, the cold winter merely causes them to post more nonsense and make more bogus assertions.

Answer 16

Global warming doesn't mean that every place on earth is going to burn to a crisp. Some places like No. Europe will actually get colder. And yes, you are correct, the abount of increase in the global temperature fluctuates, and is very small over a long period of time. Nothing on the planet happens overnight.

Answer 17

You must look at longer trends and geographic effects.

Answer 18

People are becomming more skeptical as they see behind the lies of the global warming crowd and begin to realize their true agenda.

Answer 19

There is nothing wrong with stopping polution. It causes cancer and a bunch of other things. But to think that global climate can be altered by a handfull of parasites with factories is absolutely arrogant.

Only the scientists who believe in global warming get noticed .The rest (most) who have actually disproven global warming, are ignored.

The cult of global warming only takes into account the last 100 or so years. It leaves out some serious measurements of temperature in "proving" its case.

For example, 1000 years ago, Greeenland was a rather hospitable place for farming. Now it is a block of ice. Global warming believers ignore this.

Want more recent "proof"? How about light houses? Many of the oldest ones in the Northeast US (like Sandy Hook, NJ) are miles inland. Why? Because when they were built, they were built on the ocean's edge. If global warming existed, the lighthouses would be under water. But instead, they are now inland due to the ocean receding.

In order to "believe" in global warming, you have to ignore numerous examples of facts disproving it.

GLobal warming is a religion, dependent on blind faith and the preachings of "experts". The same expert scientists  who, 20 years ago, were actually warning of global COOLING!

People are becoming "sceptic", because those understanding the global warming scam are speaking up.

Answer 20

I believe, the answer is in your question...

Ordinary people look at variation of the weather compared to the average for the season or the "average minimum/maximum" This variation can well exceed 10 or 15°C. Compared to that, the 0.02°C increase per year is unnoticeable. This means that it is around 0.1 to 0.15% of what their perception of what a major change is.

It is basically a Gauss distribution curve with an increasing average... but with a very large basis from the top 1 to 99 percentile (the 50% percentile being the average).