Fun facts about global warming?

Question

i'm doing a project on global warming and i need some facts

Answer 1

Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2007) — The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F...

...Since the start of the 20th century, the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74°C. But this rise has not been continuous. The linear warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice that for the last 100 years...

...2007 global temperatures have been averaged separately for both hemispheres. Surface temperatures for the northern hemisphere are likely to be the second warmest on record, at 0.63°C above the 30-year mean (1961-90) of 14.6°C/58.3°F. The southern hemisphere temperature is 0.20°C higher than the 30-year average of 13.4°C/56.1°F, making it the ninth warmest in the instrumental record since 1850.

January 2007 was the warmest January in the global average temperature record at 12.7°C/54.9°F, compared to the 1961-1990 January long-term average of 12.1°C/53.8°F...

Global 10 Warmest Years Mean Global temperature (°C) (anomaly with respect to 1961-1990)

   1. 1998 0.52

   2. 2005 0.48

   3. 2003 0.46

   4. 2002 0.46

   5. 2004 0.43

   6. 2006 0.42

   7. 2007(Jan-Nov) 0.41

   8. 2001 0.40

   9. 1997 0.36

  10. 1995 0.28

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

Answer 2

its funny that they are running out of new hot spots to keep the average temp. from going down.

last year they found a hot spot in central Asia to keep the global average from falling dramaticly.

the funny thing is you cant find any data from that same area from 25 or30 years ago.

its also "funny" that while rising temperatures in the arctic is all over the news, you never hear any discussion or news about the abnormally LOW temperatures in the antarctic in the same time period.

Answer 3

funny fact, global warming never came true so they change the name to global cooling or global climate

Answer 4

If we didn't have global warming we'd be up to our highpockets in glacial ice.

Answer 5

YOUR QUESTION SAY FUN FACTS, DO YOU THINK ITS FUNNY FOR PEOPLE TO DIE AND BE HOMELESS DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING TRIPPLE SIZE DISASTERS? http://www.socyberty.com/Activism/First-...  THIS IS HOW people in school groups can help to delete global warming. but I'd get a salvage license so you can keep the treasures you'll find in the sands of time that man has never touched forever and at the same time help us to find the certain locations to put the mineral that dissolves their equiptment.   HAVE A NICE DAY

Answer 6

Global warming hurts the polar bears. The Las  Vegas strip is powered by solar-thermal energy. Or it is going to be I can't remember. Global Warming increases hurricane intencity. Recent cyclone was linked to global warming by Al Gore. Hope I helped!

Answer 7

Funniest fact? It's a scam perpetuated by ignorance of Global and Solar cycles.

Answer 8

I agree with justpassingby there is nothing fun about global warming.

How about just some plain old not so fun facts.

1. 2006 was the hottest global temperature on record

2. 2007 was the hottest temperature on record for North America

3. 19 of the 20 hottest years were since 1980

4."Using new data from NASA's ICESat satellite, researchers over the past year detected the steepest yearly decline in "perennial" ice on record..... the percentage of the Arctic Ocean with stable ice cover has decreased from more than 50 percent in the mid-1980s to less than 30 percent as of last month."

5."The area of thick Arctic ice lost over the past two decades equals 1 1/2 times the size of Alaska."

6. "the very old ice, which remains in the Arctic for at least six years, made up more than 20 percent of the Arctic in the mid- to late 1980s, but by this winter it had decreased to 6 percent."

7. Global warming is strongest at the poles. "The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004."

8. "Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later."

9. Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent."

10."Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies."

11. "The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850."

12. "The global extinction rate now exceeds the global species birthrate by a factor of a hundred. It is soon to be a factor of 1,000...If present trends of global warming and loss of habitat to deforestation, agriculture and urbanization continue unabated, half of all species of life on Earth will die out by 2100."

"The Dalai Lama has written:

We are facing the most massive wave of extinction in 65 million years.  This fact is profoundly frightening.  It must open our minds to the immense proportions of the crisis we face…This blue planet of ours is a delightful habitat.  Its life is our life; its future our future.  Indeed, the earth acts like a mother to us all.  Like children, we are dependent on her.  In the face of such global problems as the greenhouse effect, individual organizations and single nations are helpless. Unless we all work together, no solution can be found.  Our mother earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility. "

Have we had enough fun yet. I sure do hope your report opens some eyes as we will need as many people working together on this as possible.

Answer 9

Fun is a tall order.  Here's what I got:

Observations show a global-scale decline of snow and ice over many years, especially since 1980 and increasing during the past decade, despite growth in some places and little change in others.

On average, eleven of the past twelve years (1995–2006) rank among the twelve warmest years on record since 1850, and the increase in average temperature is expected to accelerate in the coming decades.

Global warming is causing sea levels around the world to rise at an unprecedented rate due to a combination of thermal expansion of the oceans and rapidly melting glaciers and polar ice caps. The average sea level is expected to rise 7–23 inches before the end of this century, and perhaps as much as 31 inches over that time if the rate of ice melt from Greenland and Antarctica increases as some models predict.

Scientists who study the climate are still arguing about how fast the earth is warming and how much it will warm, but they do agree that the earth is warming and that it will keep warming if we don’t do anything about it.

Answer 10

In New Zealand, over 50% of their greenhouse gas emissions are caused by sheep and cows (i.e. they burp). They are now trying to curb their emissions. (I am completely serious)

Answer 11

Well, I think the most important fact about Global warming that the general public doesn't seem to understand is that The Earth goes thru natural warming and cooling trends.  We are naturally in a warming trend currently.  The reason it is such a big issue right now is that we are INCREASING THE RATE of the warming.  So in other words, global warming would be happening right now regardless of human activity.  But making it happen this quickly is the part that is BAD.  

Also, somewhat connected to this and worth knowing for your project:  Did you know we are currently in an ice age?  People seem to think that an ice age is ONLY when the whole earth is a frozen tundra.  (Technically an ice age is anytime there is naturally ice on the planet.. and as long as we have one or two glaciers that haven't melted, we are in an ice age.  We are in the 5th one in earth's history if I remember correctly)

Oh, and try watching An Inconvenient Truth (the Al Gore documentary).  Lots of facts about Global Warming there!

Good luck with your project!

Answer 12

THE SKY IS FALLING! OH MY GOD!  

Panic whores.  Instead of playing into fear, why not do your own small part to "reduce" your carbon footprints if GW is what you believe in.  

To the original poster, just watch Al Gore's movie -- plenty of fun facts in there.  

Oh, and I'm still waiting for those K!LLER STORMZ!

Answer 13

well some might not agree with me but i think that global warming is a natural occurring thing and that the earth goes through natural stages in warming and cooling.  I'm not saying that we didn't help though. and did you know that polar bears in some areas are not declining in number, they're actually doubling their size.

Answer 14

How about this for a "fun" fact:

There are 326,000,000 cubic miles of water on Earth,

it takes 1 calorie of energy to raise 1cc of water 1deg C,

to convert cubic miles to cubic centimeters you multiply by (5280 X 12 X 2.54)*3,

10*15 calories is a MegaTon of TNT

When you do the math it means that a one degree rise in the temperature of the oceans takes this much energy:

(326000000 X (5280 X 12 X 2.54)*3)/10*15 = 1.358 billion MegaTons of TNT

It means a one degree rise in the temperature of the oceans is the equivalent energy to 1.358 BILLION one MegaTon atom bombs.

The temperature is predicted to go up 3-5 deg C in the next 50-100 years.  That is the equivalent to one atom bomb for every man, woman and child alive on the planet today.

Have fun!