Are you having trouble Adapting to the 1 degree Temperature Change over the last 100 years?

Question

and are the AGW alarmists the ones who are having the most difficulty adapting to the temperature change?

Answer 1

After reading all the AGW fear propaganda, YES. It was h**l! I could hardly stand it. I kept turning my thermostat down, but it just could not keep up.

Answer 2

No.  Do you wait until you've been robbed before putting a lock on your door?  Do you put your seatbelt on after you get in  a car crash?  Do you wait until you're caught in a downpour before deciding to carry an umbrella or at least a hat with you?

The level we've reached thus far is clearly starting to have noticeable effects, but it's the effects down the road that are of real concern.  As long as the glaciers are there and continue to provide water to the people around them, there's no problem.  But clearly no one in their right mind would wait until the glaciers were gone before they made serious efforts to prepare for that or delay it (if possible).

Answer 3

so how do you feel about up to 6 degrees C then? that will cause massive loss of fertile land and as a result food shortages. can we really expect to feed our growing population on less land then we current do?

Answer 4

It is called ....evolution, thanks Mr. Darwin, micro, or macro take your pick....those who will survive are the fittest.... it is really just that simple... also, I have not been around the past one hundred years to notice....guess you will have to limit your answers to 100 year old persons...

Answer 5

So far no major impact on human life, thank goodness.  The real issue is what's coming:  "Climate model projections summarized by the IPCC indicate that average global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the 21st century."  This is already having an effect on species in marginal climate zones like the arctic and antarctic, with lesser effects elsewhere.

"Increasing global temperature will cause sea level to rise, and is expected to increase the intensity of extreme weather events and to change the amount and pattern of precipitation. Other effects of global warming include changes in agricultural yields, trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in the ranges of disease vectors."

It's hardly alarmist to show concern over those likely outcomes.

It's hardly alarmist when a vast majority of legitimate scientists and scholars in these fields show concern.

Try reading a little further:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warm...

Answer 6

Since 1998 it did not get warmer.

That's 10 years ago now. It seems to me that we are starting a slow but sure cooling trend.

I liked 1998. but I don't think we will see it that warm again for a long, long time.

Answer 7

http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/posters/bc...

You want to really know what's happening then research here.

Answer 8

And that 1 degree started when the temps were 0.6 degrees below average.  What we're talking about here is a scant 0.3 - 0.4 degrees above what scientist think is a normal average!

Look at your responses.  Because the temps went up a scant 1 degree, there are some that believe that the temps will rise another 6 degrees!  Do they think making the claim, make their statement true?  They are just pulling numbers out of their, er, hat!

Answer 9

2 years ago it got up to 115 at my house so cut the c**p on this "global warming is fake" stuff

Answer 10

Personally, no.But who doesn't notice the changes going on all around us.It seems to me that the alarmists are saying that we will be flooded worldwide.If you know the bible a little bit you would know that the lord made a covenant not to flood the world again.On the other hand I'm not so worried about flooding as I am about freezing to death.Mother nature always sets the record straight.We may think we are in control, but, thats a human for you.We must be in control.Truth is we have no control, global warming or another Ice Age!

Answer 11

The issue is not the past, but our future. Everyone will have troubles adapting to a rise of 4-5 degrees Celsius or more over the next 100 years which might be the consequence if we continue on this greenhouse gas track we're currently on. If we start to make urgent changes we can limit that future increase to 1-2 degrees Celsius which would make a whole lot of difference to most people. Some people, especially in low areas and poor will still have serious troubles adapting to that (and already have) but most of us in the rich world will manage though not really prosper from it. Please note that the goal actually is to keep the increase down to 1-2 degrees in a best case scenario. I don't think anyone believes we can limit it more than that, so by continuing on on the normal track we are heading towards the higher figures.

The real problem is that our emissions is accelerating every year and there are signs of that our current CO2 sinks are becoming less effective making the CO2 build up faster in the atmosphere than in the past. Finally, nobody serious denies the greenhouse effect on earth without showing their ignorance. It's a scientific fact.

Answer 12

As any teenager will tell you - OMG, it's NBD.

And for the AGW believers, it has been as hot or hotter in the past - before SUVs and factories - and the world did not end. In fact it flourished.

Answer 13

No but I am having trouble getting used to a wind chill in the minus 20s,30s,40s range.

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