Are you having trouble adapting to the 0.6 degree temperature change over the last 100 years?

Question

Are you having trouble adapting to the 0.6 degree temperature change over the last 100 years?

Answer 1

We as humans maybe aren't having trouble adapting but most everything around us is.  Especially when it comes to the oceans.  I spent 4 years working with tidewater glaciers in Alaska and in that very short amount of time personally watched almost all of them recede 50 to 100ft.  I worked on a ship that recently surveyed the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound Alaska.  In less than 20 years the glacier has receded 10 miles.  That is a lot of ice.  Gone

When you can see it for your own eyes, you might believe.

Answer 2

How much energy is needed to warm the entire atmosphere and oceans .6 C? I am betting it is an awful lot. With the CO2 levels rising rapidly your sarcasm will not help you in 20 yrs. Enjoy the world as it is now, soon we all will wish for better days!

Answer 3

I am not quite that old ,but I remember that 60 years ago it was difficult to find a thermometer that had an accuracy of plus or minus 2 deg.F.

Answer 4

oh yeah, boiling to death over here

Answer 5

0.6 C.    Let's be fair, even after the temperature drop over the last few months it's still about 0.9 F.    Most people think in terms of F degrees.

Your point is entirely valid, but we need to be vigilant about being 100% accurate in our statements, or even understating our case, to maintain that contrast with the AGW proponents who do the opposite.

Answer 6

Yes.  I no longer commute, so I use my car irregularly.  That leaves mostly my personal greenhouse gasses.

I've been trying to retain my methane, but that only worked for a while.  I haven't yet been able to exhale less than I inhale.  I'm hoping to reduce the CO2 I expel that way.

I believe the greatest source of CO2 and methane is probably not from industries and vehicles.  Most of those are in use only part of the day, part of the week.  However, greenhouse gasses are spewing out of both ends of all 8 billion humans, their pets and livestock, all the wild creatures, and off the land every moment, all the time.

I'm worried that if we don't do something  about our gasses in the next few years, the temperature will be .61 degrees higher.  Then what will we do?  It might eventually become .65 or even .7 degrees higher than a century ago before it continues sliding into the next ice age.

See the natural 100,000 temperature cycles at http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cry...

Answer 7

I wasn't here 100 years ago, so I haven't noticed much of a difference.

Answer 8

You get adapted to it, but if it passes a certain level then it get tought to survive. Excessive heat or cold changes the type of your living

Answer 9

Yea, and the extra 100ppm of co2 over the last 100 years (1 molecule per 1,000,000 per year) is causing all sorts of problems with my breathing.  It's like I can't get any oxygen anymore.

Answer 10

How come CO2 loses it's energy every day?  I mean it was 80 yesterday but down in the 40's last night..... Does CO2 have thermal saddlebags and an alarm clock????

Answer 11

No, most people don't. Only some people in some special vulnerable areas have.

The problem however is not in the past, it's in the future. Even if we stopped increasing greenhouse gases today, there would probably still be a 0.5 C rise in pipeline due to the slow responses from the seas. Considering that we cannot stop emissions right away even if we try, the goal is to limit future warming to less than 2 degrees above today. If temperatures rise more than that  - Yes, we will definitely have trouble to adapt and it will cost lots of money.

I think this is where the "skeptics" go wrong. You think it's just to "switch a button" when we don't want the warming to continue any more. In reality, it doesn't work that way.

Answer 12

0.6 may not seem much, but consider its effect on the big engine of planetary climate made up by the Oceans and the Oceans currents. Given marine life in some cases is extremely sensitive to temperature (there is one species of fish in the Eastern seaboard that matures sexually according to temperature; not to mention coral survivability and reproduction), and the small arithmetic number can be huge in biology. Climate consequences unknown.