Global Warming = Fake - its not real and i have evidence?

Question

Climate Summary

January 2008

The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.

2.21 inches of precipitation fell in January. This was -0.01 inches less than the 1901-2000 average, the 65th driest such month on record. The precipitation trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is -0.01 inches per decade.

See, it's not the end of the world after all!

Answer 1

thats not evidence supporting anything. hate to break your bubble. and i think i answered this yesterday too... do you keep reposting?

Answer 2

"Global Warming" can not be based on the findings of any two random months. The fact is that, as a result of global warming and climate change, there will be some places in the world where temperature will in fact get colder. And regardless of whether a place is getting warmer or cooler, there will be some fluctuations in precipitation, temperature and other weather patterns from year to year - it's looking at patterns going back not only 150 years (through written records) and tens of thousands of year (through glacier core examination) that allows us to determine that in fact, the earth as a whole is going through a warming period.

Answer 3

its not global warming al gore...its nuclear winter...ice age is upon us

Answer 4

At least Al Gore can still talk about how invented the internet.

Answer 5

go on then show me the evidance

Answer 6

I'm burning fossil fuel as we speak

Answer 7

I hate when people post c**p like this...  It makes all the skeptics/deniers look the same.

You can still deny agw, but an article like this shouldnt be the reason.

Answer 8

Yes the earth is getting hotter, but so is the rest of the planets. Not something the belivers of man made climate shange will share with you. It is cyclical, data far back as 900ad. hottest year to date was 1300 ad england recorded, where were the suv then? no jets. no fossil fuel burning. So it kinda trumps the argument that it is because of the use of fossil fuels. If you take the fact that our natural air scrubbers convert carbon gases in to oxygen gases and look at the data about the amount of green plants and trees in on the planet you can decern the truth as close as it can be understood. Also remeber every anomilis large space body that passes our planet adjust our orbit slightly. That can make a big change as well in our tempratures over long peiods of time. To many variablies to get a acurate reason but if the shoe fits, I undersand the largest contribution to our climate change is the mass and tempreature of the sun. It is a cyclical anomaly as well, gets hotter then cooler as its core reacts with its internal enviroment. by the way mathmatics says we wont survive for ever so why delay the inevitable?

Answer 9

What ever U said is right but actually the bestthing is that U have not understood is the fall in temepreature is also due to global warming it was said that the earth will feature extremity thats what happened.

Increasing temperature is likely to lead to increasing precipitation [4][5] but the effects on storms are less clear. Extratropical storms partly depend on the temperature gradient, which is predicted to weaken in the northern hemisphere as the polar region warms more than the rest of the hemisphere.[6]

[edit] Extreme weather



This image shows the conclusions of Knutson and Tuleya (2004) that maximum intensity reached by tropical storms is likely to undergo an increase, with a significant increase in the number of highly destructive category 5 storms.Storm strength leading to extreme weather is increasing, such as the power dissipation index of hurricane intensity.[7] Kerry Emanuel writes that hurricane power dissipation is highly correlated with temperature, reflecting global warming.[8] Hurricane modeling has produced similar results, finding that hurricanes, simulated under warmer, high-CO2 conditions, are more intense; there is less confidence in projections of a global decrease in numbers of hurricanes. Worldwide, the proportion of hurricanes reaching categories 4 or 5 – with wind speeds above 56 metres per second – has risen from 20% in the 1970s to 35% in the 1990s.[9] Precipitation hitting the US from hurricanes increased by 7% over the twentieth century.[10][11][12] The extent to which this is due to global warming as opposed to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is unclear. Some studies have found that the increase in sea surface temperature may be offset by an increase in wind shear, leading to little or no change in hurricane activity.[13]

Catastrophes resulting from extreme weather are exacerbated by increasing population densities. The World Meteorological Organization[14] and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency[15] have linked increasing extreme weather events to global warming, as have Hoyos et al.[16], writing that the increasing number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes is directly linked to increasing temperatures. Thomas Knutson and Robert E. Tuleya of NOAA stated in 2004 that warming induced by greenhouse gas may lead to increasing occurrence of highly destructive category-5 storms.[17] Vecchi and Soden find that wind shear, the increase of which acts to inhibit tropical cyclones, also changes in model-projections of global warming. There are projected increases of wind shear in the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific associated with the deceleration of the Walker circulation, as well as decreases of wind shear in the western and central Pacific.[18] The study does not make claims about the net effect on Atlantic and East Pacific hurricanes of the warming and moistening atmospheres, and the model-projected increases in Atlantic wind shear. [19]

A substantially higher risk of extreme weather does not necessarily mean a noticeably greater risk of slightly-above-average weather.[20] However, the evidence is clear that severe weather and moderate rainfall are also increasing. Increases in temperature are expected to produce more intense convection over land and a higher frequency of the most severe storms.[21]

Stephen Mwakifwamba, national co-ordinator of the Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology - which prepared the Tanzanian government's climate change report to the UN - says that change is happening in Tanzania right now. "In the past, we had a drought about every 10 years", he says. "Now we just don't know when they will come. They are more frequent, but then so are floods. The climate is far less predictable. We might have floods in May or droughts every three years. Upland areas, which were never affected by mosquitoes, now are. Water levels are decreasing every day. The rains come at the wrong time for farmers and it is leading to many problems"[22].

Greg Holland, director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said on April 24, 2006, "The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change," and that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms when they form in the Caribbean are, "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw." Holland said, "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases." [23] (See also "Global warming?" in tropical cyclone)

[edit] Increased evaporation



Increasing water vapor at Boulder, Colorado.Over the course of the 20th century, evaporation rates have reduced worldwide [24]; this is thought by many to be explained by global dimming. As the climate grows warmer and the causes of global dimming are reduced, evaporation will increase due to warmer oceans. Because the world is a closed system this will cause heavier rainfall, with more erosion. This erosion, in turn, can in vulnerable tropical areas (especially in Africa) lead to desertification due to deforestation. On the other hand, in other areas, increased rainfall lead to growth of forests in dry desert areas.

Many scientists think that increased evaporation could result in more extreme weather as global warming progresses. The IPCC Third Annual Report says: "...global average water vapor concentration and precipitation are projected to increase during the 21st century. By the second half of the 21st century, it is likely that precipitation will have increased over northern mid- to high latitudes and Antarctica in winter. At low latitudes there are both regional increases and decreases over land areas. Larger year to year variations in precipitation are very likely over most areas where an increase in mean precipitation is projected" [4][25].

[edit] Cost of more extreme weather

It's predicted that each 1% increase in annual precipitation would enlarge the cost of catastrophic storms by 2.8%[26]

The Association of British Insurers has stated that limiting carbon emissions would avoid 80% of the projected additional annual cost of tropical cyclones by the 2080s. The cost is also increasing partly because of building in exposed areas such as coasts and floodplains. The ABI claims that reduction of the vulnerability to some inevitable impacts of climate change, for example through more resilient buildings and improved flood defences, could also result in considerable cost-savings in the longterm.[27]

[edit] Destabilization of local climates



The first recorded South Atlantic hurricane, "Catarina", which hit Brazil in March 2004In the northern hemisphere, the southern part of the Arctic region (home to 4,000,000 people) has experienced a temperature rise 1 °C to 3 °C (1.8 °F to 5.4 °F) over the last 50 years. Canada, Alaska and Russia are experiencing initial melting of permafrost. This may disrupt ecosystems and by increasing bacterial activity in the soil lead to these areas becoming carbon sources instead of carbon sinks [28]. A study (published in Science) of changes to eastern Siberia's permafrost suggests that it is gradually disappearing in the southern regions, leading to the loss of nearly 11% of Siberia's nearly 11,000 lakes since 1971 [29]. At the same time, western Siberia is at the initial stage where melting permafrost is creating new lakes, which will eventually start disappearing as in the east. Furthermore, permafrost melting will eventually cause methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs.

Hurricanes were thought to be an entirely North Atlantic phenomenon. In late March 2004, the first Atlantic cyclone to form south of the equator hit Brazil with 40 m/s (144 km/h) winds, although some Brazilian meteorologists deny that it was a hurricane.[30] Monitoring systems may have to be extended 1,600 km (1,000 miles) further south. There is no agreement as to whether this hurricane is linked to climate change, [31] but at least one climate model exhibits increased tropical cyclone genesis in the South Atlantic under global warming by the end of the 21st century.[32]

[edit] Glacier retreat and disappearance

Main article: Retreat of glaciers since 1850



A map of the change in thickness of mountain glaciers since 1970. Thinning in orange and red, thickening in blue.

Lewis Glacier, North Cascades, WA USA is one of five glaciers in the area that melted awayIn historic times, glaciers grew during a cool period from about 1550 to 1850 known as the Little Ice Age. Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed. Glacier retreat declined and reversed in many cases from 1950 to 1980 as a slight global cooling occurred. Since 1980, glacier retreat has become increasingly rapid and ubiquitous, and has threatened the existence of many of the glaciers of the world. This process has increased markedly since 1995. [33]

Excluding the ice caps and ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctic, the total surface area of glaciers worldwide has decreased by 50% since the end of the 19th century [34]. Currently glacier retreat rates and mass balance losses have been increasing in the Andes, Alps, Himalayas, Rocky Mountains and North Cascades.

The loss of glaciers not only directly causes landslides, flash floods and glacial lake overflow[35], but also increases annual variation in water flows in rivers. Glacier runoff declines in the summer as glaciers decrease in size, this decline is already observable in several regions [36]. Glaciers retain water on mountains in high precipitation years, since the snow cover accumulating on glaciers protects the ice from melting. In warmer and drier years, glaciers offset the lower precipitation amounts with a higher meltw

Answer 10

run this report every month for the rest of the year...then average out the "warmer" months with the cooler for realistic results, not one month out of the year...

Answer 11

I'd rather you stayed on the planet with all the oil being burned.  I want my old planet back where no one worried about Fire killling everyone.

Answer 12

Global Warming means extreme cold as well as hot

the nights in the desert for example are freezing .much colder than in temperate places or places with lots of trees.

And some of the events are not fake for the people concerned ,

you must be lucky to live in a place that shows little effect so far .

You will be affected when food prices rise due to disasters in third world food producing countries.

and when beer gets to deer because of potable water shortage.

Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting,

When the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will lessen drastically ,and the drag with it , changing the higher warm currents,

Stagnant situations will develop.

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

we are always the last to know.

So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

However

confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

The truth is being distorted at high levels,

And lies have been weaved in.

Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

Besides Corporations have other priorities ,expensive changes will affect profits ,this also affects the truths being published

Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

But there is a LOT that we can do,about being more responsible and economic with our natural resources ,Or be more sympathetic towards Nature, After all out lives depend on that.

How ever

In the first world countries too many do not care or rely on the Gods to take care of everything.

Some or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

So I guess we will have to take what is coming.

Answer 13

Warming for now is real. The cause is what is being argued.

I won't bother cutting and pasting all the research out there into this small box. I'll give you a link to a large list of scientists that have come to different conclusions than Al Gore has.

Answer 14

Global warming is REAL.  You may not know this, but the warming is melting the ice caps, and the water in the oceans is rising and is warming up ... which causes extremely bad weather and much of it is COLD.  If we melt enough of the ice caps and glaciers, we could set of storms so bad we have a new ICE AGE ... it was those 'ice caps' at the north and south poles that allowed the 'middle' to be warm ... no ice there, and the world gets cooler ... but it's global WARMING causing it, not 'global cooling' as you seem to believe.

Answer 15

firstly that's US and not the world. they call it global warming not US warming.

secondly it is just natural variation. one month being cooler then the average proves nothing especially since this is only the us.

BTW 49th coolest is also the 65th warmest.

Answer 16

Hey netnazivictim, it's not very nice to post the same thing under a different name.

No one is running around screaming it's the end of the world, but you are being short-sighted if you think this January is anything special. IF you actually follow the link, look at the bottom of the page at the "TLT" graph, you will see lower temperatures and just as steep of drops in the 1980's and 1990's. Nothing new, except the temperature is greater now that then.

I'm not sorry to burst your fragile bubble, because you so blatantly disregard any data in science.

http://www.remss.com/msu/msu_data_descri...

Answer 17

You're clearly not a scientist, and hoping to keep up your flagrant use of fossil fuels, so you cling to trivial numbers.

Global climate change is much more apt a term. It's long been predicted that one of the outcomes will be more extreme temperatures and rainfall amounts... therefore, using your misguided approach, one will always be able to find pockets of data that "contradict" the overall trend.

Answer 18

The Earth will always heat up and cool down. I am sick and tired of all of the "Global Warming" bullsh*t.

Answer 19

No one has said it will be the end of the world, just the end of life as we know it. If you are in denial because your scared of change don't worry there are many people who think like you that's why nothing will change. So feel free to keep throwing things away and burning fuels like there is no tomorrow. You are aware that governments and large company's pay their own scientists to put out the so called facts you quoted, this is because they want you to continue being a consumer so they can line their pockets with more cash.