Are people from cold places more likely to be worried about global warming.?

Question

On my cable service I sometimes see BBC reporters getting worried about global warming. Ironically they look like they're freezing in their heavy winter coats while they worry about what will happen to people somewhere else in the world.

I don't doubt the sincerity of people in cold climates worrying on behalf of people in other places, but they do seem to be more worried than the people they are worried about.

Is it just my imagination, or does cold weather make people worry about global warming?

Answer 1

yes it is true

Answer 2

As global warming progresses and melts the ice caps, people who live near the ice caps (i.e., at the poles where the weather is cold) will be more affected than those who live further away.

Answer 3

ben

"global warming" isn't just about the planet getting warm, it's also about it getting cold, if that makes any sense.

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

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Answer 4

first of all, you have to bear in mind that 'global warming' means that average GLOBAL temperatures are rising, averaged for the globe, and averaged for whole year. what this means to people on the ground, is that climate patterns start to change. although on average the world is warming relatively fast, this may mean in some places, for example, extremely hot summer, but cold and fierce winters, and in other places, not much change in average temperatures, but more frequent and furious storms and typhoons. and in some other areas, it may mean a big increase in precipitation, making big floods more likely, and yet other places may experience less rains and more droughts where previously they had no water issues.

this is because temperature rise influences global weather patterns in a complex, interactive way. that's why although the problem is that the earth is warming at a rate that's worrying, i.e. global warming, when people talk about the consequences and effects, they say 'climate change' - because it is a change in climate that is visible to people experiencing global warming, although many people do experience a warming trend, if their region is one of those whose climate changes by warming.

remember, 'global warming' means AVERAGE global temperature is rising.

i don't know whether it's true that cold country people are more worried about global warming. it is perhaps plausible, because warmer regions near the tropics and equator are either dominated by developing countries (whose people are still not very much exposed to advanced science, and who have to balance climate change worries with development), or the US. and at the moment the US has only just agreed that global warming is a fact, but still denies that humans have anything to do with it (with the implication that humans can't do anything to mitigate). which sort of leaves the other countries, who happen to lie around the colder regions.

it could just be a coincidence. two things that correlate with each other does not necessarily mean that one causes the other.

Answer 5

If they did, they would be idiots.

It's a nightmare living in freezing weather.

There's nothing good about it at all.

Global warming, if it's even really happening, is not a problem, because it benefits exactly as many people as it hampers.

Answer 6

Not the cold weather but the level of the oceans.  Local weather besides the point.  If you live on the coast and the polar ice caps melt and the level of the ocean rises you will get flooded.

Answer 7

Global Warming has been going on since the ice age. Remember glaciers use to cover half the United States. Now, here's the BS: Socialists, Marxist, and Communists started this whole concept that it was man-made by that evil empire, the USA. While leading the world in production, energy usage and having the highest standard of living, it's easy to blame capitalism for global warming. Unfortunately too many Meat-Heads have bought into this idea. Global Warming is a natural phenomenon beyond our control and is created by an imperfect wobbling of the earth and circumnavigation of the sun. It's easy for someone to buy into this man-made warming theory and appear as though they are the enlightened ones. Maybe they can explain why half the USA was once covered with ice and the glaciers began to retreat and melt many thousands of years before the combustible engine. Or, why the south pole use to be warm and tropical. The argument isn't whether global warming is occuring, but rather what's causing it. Don't let those so-called enlightened one's talk you into turning your life over to them in the name of saving the planet! The rotations & wobbling of planets, the varying temperature of the sun, and the weather is beyond our control. Oh yeah, follow the money and those thirsting for power and you'll easily see who the alarmists are...