Do you now realise that the global warming scenario is pure scaremongering rubbish ?

Question

Right around the the globe we are seeing record "low temperatures", and many countries are in the grips of on going record blizzards.

Sceptics of the climate change rhetoric, like Ozzygob, are saying "TOLD YA SO ! ?"

The east coast of NSW AUSTRALIA, has, especially around the Sydney area has just had a whole summer of non-summer !

It has been described as Autumn !

Answer 1

i dont think you know what you are talking about. Do some real research before passing judgement. the facts are there.

Answer 2

what we see is exactly was was forecast by the global warming supporters, the climate is going wild, and it is going to be even wilder, so we will see More storms, cold a tropical ones, sudden droughts and big floods, we are seeing all of these right now, and it is all because the main effect of global warming, away from the polar regions, is adding more energy to the climate machine.

Answer 3

Obviously you have no idea what you are talking about. I live in New Zealand so I think you could say that I am slightly closer to the truth than you.....

In Australia, February was generally cool, although averaged over the country as a whole February wasn't as cool as January was hot.

The west coast of Western Australia and central and southern Northern Territory were warmer than normal last month.

The Australian average summer temperature was 0.16 of a degree above normal, which ranks 22nd out of 58. Daytime maxima were 0.14 of a degree below normal and overnight minimum 0.45 of a degree above normal.

No conclusions on climate change could be drawn from one month in one country.

What you need to be looking at is trends over a much longer period of time and preferably trends over a wider area.

But just focusing on Australia, we have seen a consistently upward trend in temperature over the past 50 to 100 years.

Answer 4

the actual term is 'global climate change' and it is having an effect on our weather, if you care to study the phenomenom you will discover that the only question is whether or not humans can do anything to reverse the destruction to our environment

Answer 5

I can't wait to see how people react to this.

For the record I never believed global warming was as HUGE a threat as the media/some politicians made it out to be. They acted like we were all going to die tomorrow.

Answer 6

Apparently you know something about Global Warming that the worlds top 2500 climatologists don't know. (who were unanimous regarding their statement last Feb that GW was 'unequivocal' and caused by man)

Please share it with us!?!

Answer 7

The warming of the earth is not the side effect of global warming (well it's part of it).  ONE OF the side effect are EXTREMES in weather and temperatures! Just because we're having "Global Warming" Doesn't mean that our next phase isn't an Ice Age.  

  So yes actually I did not know we were having record lows, now I am more convinced then before I opened your question that global warming is going on...c**p.

Answer 8

No, my brain still works, thank you.

Answer 9

Where I live it is warmer on average than it was say 35 years ago. We still can get some cold temperatures, but only for a day or 2..

Answer 10

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS LOW TEMPERATURES c**p!  So we had a few cold years.  fine.  That has been happening since the firts day this planet had an atmosphere.  There are these things called short term weather cycles.  And DON'T EVEN THINK of saying that global warming is just one of those cycles.  It does not fit the Earth's cold-hot long term cycle pattern that is recorded in ice cores and other things of that sort.  We are early for the warm period.  Sure, some of global warming is natural, like the gasses made by volcanoes.  That is natural, but our fossil fuel burning is not.  It added more heat trapping CO2 than the environment can cope with.  Just because you want to not feel guilty as you drive your huge SUV and live in your cheap, energy wasting home doesn't mean global warming isn't happening.  Ifg you deny it, it doesn't go away.  if you think it does, try it out in a relationship problem.  Then we'll see what happens.  you'll lose your friend, just like the earth will loose it's ice caps and we will loose our shore lines.  IT'S HERE, SO WAKE UP ALREADY!

Answer 11

Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

Seriously though, the denialists' seeming inability to distinguish between short term weather patterns and long term climatic trends is kind of sad. The cold weather we're experiencing in the northern hemisphere is because it's winter here, not because the planet is plunging into an ice age. Yes, temperatures have been slightly lower this winter than the last few years, because cold-phase la Niña conditions have prevailed all through the November-February period–likewise for Australia (which is having a slightly warmer than average summer all told). That doesn't mean global warming has gone away. Only fools and GW denialists think otherwise.

On a humorous minor note, the temperature record that's showing your supposed "global cooling" is the exact same record that you denialists were blasting for being untrustworthy and fraudulent a couple months ago. Hypocrisy much?  Is the temperature record fine and dandy so long as (you think) it shows what you want it to?

Answer 12

one cool summer proves nothing, its the overall trend that counts.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/F...

notice that each year can vear allot but overall its trending upwards as the 5 year average shows.

also you are forgetting that Australia just had one of the hottest years on record it would have been the hottest except for unusually cool northern Australia so i dont know what you mean by a non summer.

Answer 13

Yeah I realise and I do everything in my power to help peole understand thats its not behind the mountains if we continue so the humanity will die. and I can say that I in some ways managed to do it. my ex gf didnt care about the environment at all but now when she sees big cars or peole who pollute the environment or smth else she always complains that how cant peole understand thats its dangerous

Answer 14

That's funny, and here I was reading from peer-reviewed journals like Science, and Nature, that the global mean atmospheric and oceanic temperatures were rising. I thought there had been an increase in droughts and desertification in sub-saharan Africa. I also heard that Antarctica's ice shelves have been fracturing and breaking up, and that glaciers around the world are retreating, but I must have been mistaken. I mean, if Sydney had a mild summer, there's no way the world could be heating up, right? Right?

Answer 15

Come to Greece and you will the major climate changes! Last year we had the highest temperature ever!!!! 44 Celcius under the shadow! In Cyprus now is nearly summer also reaching amazing high temperatures! Last year in Russia the bears couldn't hibernate! In France and Germany last year people died over heatstroke due to the peculiar high temperature! Oh dear the climate is changing! I remember 20 years ago we could stay under the sun for hours without getting burned! Now only few minutes and we get blisters!

Answer 16

ITS NOT RUBBISH, Can't u see the changing environment everywhere & melting glaciers, soon you will see some countries sinking in the ocean as well.  By Soon I mean 10-20 years.

Also go to national geographic , howstuffworks.com websites and learn more about how you can contribute in preventing this to happen.

Answer 17

Really why would anyone worry about global warming? Unless they just do not believe in God. According to the Bible once we get through Revelations which is world wide earth quakes, famine, meteor showers, and all other kinds a chaos. We get to live on the Earth for another 1000 years with Jesus.  Global Warming is just a part of the overall plan.

Answer 18

Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants

In 2002 about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions stem from the burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. Coal accounts for 93 percent of the emissions from the electric utility industry.

Coal emits around 1.7 times as much carbon per unit of energy when burned as does natural gas and 1.25 times as much as oil. Natural gas gives off 50% of the carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, released by coal and 25% less carbon dioxide than oil, for the same amount of energy produced. Coal contains about 80 percent more carbon per unit of energy than gas does, and oil contains about 40 percent more. For the typical U.S. household, a metric ton of carbon equals about 10,000 miles of driving at 25 miles per gallon of gasoline or about one year of home heating using a natural gas-fired furnace or about four months of electricity from coal-fired generation.

Carbon Dioxide Emitted from Cars

About 33% of U.S carbon dioxide emissions comes from the burning of gasoline in internal-combustion engines of cars and light trucks (minivans, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, and jeeps).US Emissions Inventory Vehicles with poor gas mileage contribute the most to global warming. For example, according to the E.P.A's 2000 Fuel Economy Guide, a new Dodge Durango sports utility vehicle (with a 5.9 liter engine) that gets 12 miles per gallon in the city will emit an estimated 800 pounds of carbon dioxide over a distance of 500 city miles. In other words for each gallon of gas a vehicle consumes, 19.6 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted into the air.  A new Honda Insight that gets 61 miles to the gallon will only emit about 161 pounds of carbon dioxide over the same distance of 500 city miles. Sports utility vehicles were built for rough terrain, off road driving in mountains and deserts. When they are used for city driving, they are so much overkill to the environment. If one has to have a large vehicle for their family, station wagons are an intelligent choice for city driving, especially since their price is about half that of a sports utility. Inasmuch as SUV's have a narrow wheel base in respect to their higher silhouette, they are four times as likely as cars to rollover in an accident.

The United States is the largest consumer of oil, using 20.4 million barrels per day. In his debate with former Defense Secretary d**k Cheney, during the 2000 Presidential campaign, Senator Joseph Lieberman said, "If we can get 3 miles more per gallon from our cars, we'll save 1 million barrels of oil a day, which is exactly what the (Arctic National Wildlife) Refuge at its best in Alaska would produce."  

If car manufacturers were to increase their fleets' average gas mileage about 3 miles per gallon, this country could save a million barrels of oil every day, while US drivers would save $25 billion in fuel costs annually.

Carbon Dioxide from Airplanes

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that aviation causes 3.5 percent of global warming, and that the figure could rise to 15 percent by 2050.

Carbon Dioxide from Buildings

Buildings structure account for about 12% of carbon dioxide emissions.

Methane

While carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas, methane is second most important. According to the IPCC, Methane is more than 20 times as

effective as CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. US Emissions Inventory 2004 Levels of atmospheric methane have risen 145% in the last 100 years.  Methane is derived from sources such as rice paddies, bovine flatulence, bacteria in bogs and fossil fuel production. Most of the world’s rice, and all of the rice in the United States, is grown on flooded fields. When fields are flooded, anaerobic conditions develop and the organic matter in the soil decomposes, releasing CH4 to the atmosphere, primarily through the rice plants. US Emissions Inventory 2004

Water Vapor in the Atmosphere Increasing

Water vapor is the most prevalent and most poweful greenhouse gas on the planet, but its increasing presence is the result of warming caused by carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Water vapor holds onto two-thirds of the heat trapped by all the greenhouse gases. As the Earth heats up relative humidity is able to increase, allowing the planet's atmosphere to hold more water vapor, causing even more warming, thus a positive feedback scenario. Because the air is warmer, the relative humidity can be higher (in essence, the air is able to 'hold' more water when its warmer), leading to more water vapor in the atmosphere, says the NCDC. There is much scientific uncertainty as to the degree this feedback loop causes increased warming, inasmuch as the water vapor also causes increased cloud formation, which in turn reflects heat back out into space.

Nitrous oxide

Another greenhouse gas is Nitrous oxide (N2O), a colourless, non-flammable gas with a sweetish odour, commonly known as "laughing gas", and sometimes used as an anaesthetic. Nitrous oxide is naturally produced by oceans and rainforests. Man-made sources of nitrous oxide include nylon and nitric acid production, the use of fertilisers in agriculture, cars with catalytic converters and the burning of organic matter. Nitrous oxide is broken down in the atmosphere by chemical reactions that involve sunlight.

Deforestation

After carbon emissions caused by humans, deforestation is the second principle cause of atmospheric carbn dioxide. Deforestation is responsible for 20-25% of all carbon emissions entering the atmosphere, by the burning and cutting of about 34 million acres of trees each year. We are losing millions of acres of rainforests each year, the equivalent in area to the size of Italy.  The destroying of tropical forests alone is throwing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. We are also losing temperate forests. The temperate forests of the world account for an absorption rate of 2 billion tons of carbon annually. In the temperate forests of Siberia alone, the earth is losing 10 million acres per year.

City Gridlock

In 1996 according to an annual study by traffic engineers [as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle December 10, 1996] from Texas A and M University, it was found that drivers in Los Angeles and New York City alone wasted 600 million gallons of gas annually while just sitting in traffic. The 600 million gallons of gas translates to about 7.5 million tons of carbon dioxide in just those two cities.

<>Carbon in Atmosphere and Ocean

The atmosphere contains about 750 billion tons of carbon, while 1020 billion tons are dissolved in the surface layers of the world's ocean.

Permafrost

Permafrost is a solid structure of frozen soil, extending to depths of 2.200 feet in some areas of the arctic and subarctic regions,  containing grasses, roots, sticks, much of it dating back to 30,000 years. About 25% of the land areas of the Northern Hemisphere hold permafrost, which is defined as soil whose temperature has been 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) for a period of at least 2 years. Permafrost is under 85% of Alaska land surface and much of Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia and holds about 14 per cent of the world's carbon. The hard permafrost on which is built homes and other buildings, can, with rising temperatures, turn into a soft material causing subsidence and damage to buildings, electric generating stations, pipelines and other structures. Ground instability would cause erosion, affect terrain, slopes, roads, foundations and more.

Svein Tveitdal, Managing Director of the Global Resource Information Database (GRID) in Arendal, Norway, a UNEP environmental information center monitoring the thawing of permafrost, told a meeting at the 21st session of the United Nation's Governing Council in Nairobi, Kenya on February 7, 2001: "Permafrost has acted as a carbon sink, locking away carbon and other greenhouse gases like methane, for thousands of year. But there is now evidence that this is no longer the case, and the permafrost in some areas is starting to give back its carbon. This could accelerate the greenhouse effect."  



In a December, 2005 study climate models at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that climate change may thaw the permafrost located in the top 10 feet of  permafrost, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. "People have used models to study permafrost before, but not within a fully interactive climate system model," says NCAR's David Lawrence, the lead author. The coauthor is Andrew Slater of the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center. "Thawing permafrost could send considerable amounts of water to the oceans," says Slater, who notes that runoff to the Arctic has increased about 7 percent since the 1930s. According to the NCAR press release (December 19, 2005) permafrost may contain 30% of all the carbon found in soil worldwide. In areas to a depth of 11.2 feet climate models (assuming business as usual scenarios) show permafrost presently in an area of  4,000,000 square miles shrinking to 1,000,000 square miles by 2050 and 400,000 square miles by 2100. With a scenario of low emissions (assuming a high degree use of alternative energy sources and conservation) permafrost is still expected to shrink to 1.5 million miles by 2100.........In a USA Today (December 26, 2005) interview David Lawrence says, "If that much near-surface permafrost thaws, it could release considerable amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and that could amplify global warming," ….."We could be underestimating the rate of global temperature increase."

In a study reported in the journal Science June 16, 2006 (see San Francisco Chronic