Don't you wish it was just a little warmer?

Question

Isn't it hard to sell "Global Warming" when the temperatures have been declining 0.06 degrees per year for the last 10 years?

Wouldn't a couple of years with record droughts and high temperatures help to force governments to take more action quicker?

When a tropical storm forms in the Atlantic, do you find yourself routing that this will be "The Big One"?

What do you wish the climate would do to help people see that "Global Warming" was real?

Answer 1

Dr. Jello is right -- there has been NO warming for the last 10 years. Face it the computer models are wrong-- the data is manipulated and or "filled in" as needed. The ground station data is a big joke-- 70% of the Earth is water -- so not many weather stations out in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific-- climatology is a very young science-- and the politicians see a way to make money and are now right in the middle of the discussion. However the SAT data conflicts with the ground data-- and is not very long term--

So why not wait 10-15 years for more SAT data --- ? This year will add one more year to declining global temp trend--

A separate question is "How do we move from an oil economy to something else?"  and I agree that we MUST move as quickly as possible to a Comprehensive energy plan that uses nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, drilling where the oil is on shore off shore-- and anything else to stop sending 700 billion per year to dictators, and despots, and tyrants who control the world's oil market. On this I agree with the GW advocates.

http://www.neighborsgo.com/blog/boatman2

Answer 2

Now there's a visual image.  Deniers the world 'round lining up at wishing wells and flipping a coin into the well, saying, "I wish ...."

Instead of wishing I'm reading, listening, learning, and I'm hanging onto my pocket change for the grandkid instead of tossing it into the water.

Answer 3

I am rooting for a blizzard or at least a few snow flurries in Denver next week to steal the show. And Rush is as much a bore and loose cannon in his own way as Gore, only irrational pundits listen to either of them. I do not hope to much for rationality from many though because the Exxon sponsored publicity blitz has been going on to long and with to much effort to bring rational discussion or facts to the table now. It is going to take jail time for the leaders of the game to bring back rational viewing of facts rather than religious mantras.

Answer 4

I wish, that is even less likely to happen anytime soon, since 1.5 million tons of SO2 was recently ejected into the stratosphere.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...

Answer 5

It's been a little too dry and hot as h**l here since early June...but then what exactly does weather by zip code prove besides nothing.  All I wish is the climate would settle down a little and somebody besides the Rush Limbaugh minions knew exactly why.

Answer 6

GW is a farce. Bring on the heat.

Answer 7

Interesting 0.06 per year, that would be 0.6 over ten years which is what the temp rise was from the late 70s to 98, funny how the amount of drop you are talking about doesn't seem to show up in this.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

Deniers like your self keep asking for evidence but seem quite happy to ignore direct evidence that show your comments are wrong.

Answer 8

H*** yes, I like warm weather.  So do all the folks that move to Arizona and Florida.

Asking the body politic to pay higher taxes for COLDER winters with higher fuel costs ... is kind of a non-starter.  I think that is why politicians squelched this issue back in 1997 with Byrd-Hagel.  Their pollsters (and probably gut feel) have figured out no matter how much the legacy media bleats, people just don't like winter.

What happened to the good old days with an upcoming glaciation that ends-the-world-as-we-know-it?  The geological evidence is overwhelming and the effects are devastating.  Folks might even figure out some convoluted reasoning that blames it all on mankind this cycle so they can feel good about themselves.

In school I used to be incredulous that events like the Inquisition, Salem Witch Trials, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, etc. could happen.  I think I know the answer now -- the conformity experiments of Asche.  Under peer duress people gave at least one wrong answer 75% of the time, the error rate without duress was less than 3%.

By the way, congratulations on being the "top answerer" in the environment section.

Answer 9

Jello is wrong, again...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/res...

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temper...

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...

Unfortunately for you, scientists know what they are talking about. I wish the climate were stable, but that just isn't happening. And your playing to an American audience, because the rest of the world is warmer...

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/rese...

Answer 10

yea i live in Alaska its been the coldest year on record

Answer 11

No

Global warming is something difference between Peak Summer temparature to Lowest Winter temparature .

It means today if Peak summer Temparature is 47 Degree C and Lowest Winter temparature is -25 Degree C . It is really harsh climate .

20 years Back Peark summer was 33 Degree C and Lowest winter temperature was -10 Degree C.

It means that we are facin 12 C higher temparature during peak summer and -15 C lower temparature during winter .

This huge differance in Temparature will kill people .