Global Warming: When the Earth is pulling out of an Ice age, isn't its temperature supposed to warm?

Question

just curious

Answer 1

I don't quite understand your question, couldn't it be rephrased as "When the Earth is warming, isn't it supposed to warm?" It sounds like a tautology to me.

Edit:  I'm serious, doesn't anyone else realize that this question is circular?

Answer 2

yes , its nothing humans have done , nore can we change the earth let alone the complete solar system.

thats why there is ice where once there was not, and its hot in areas that once was freezing cold

Answer 3

There is a regular warming and cooling cycle to the earth.  However, what is being measured now is above and beyond such natural warming.  The temps being recorded exceed what would occur naturally.

Answer 4

Sure.  But that process stopped about 10,000 years ago.  Here's the data:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

The line of the graph on the far right is an essentially vertical line, which is the warming we've created.

Answer 5

Yes, and we had just started warming from a mini ice age when man started keeping track of the average global temperature. Then on a bigger scale our planet had come out of a glaciation period about 10,000 years ago and for people to believe that inter-glacial periods don't have major peaks and valleys in the temperature record haven't studied or paid attention too how times were like in other eras of human civilizations.  The warm periods in our past were a time of plenty and people thrived while the cold periods people starved, froze and had major plagues.

Answer 6

Ice ages, and inter-glacial periods, are triggered by small changes in Earth's orbit called "Milankovitch cycles" by astronomers, or "orbital forcing" by climatologists. Since Earth's orbit can be computed for thousands of years into the past and future, we know that orbital forcing peaked 6000 years ago, during the Holocene Maximum, and is actually cooling the planet right now.

Here's the science:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

Answer 7

Yes. Earth is actually just coming out of an ice age, so naturally, Earth is  warming. : )

Answer 8

Yes...but man isn't supposed to leave his Ice Age homes and take advantage of the new-found resources uncovered and deposited by the retreating glaciers.  We've forgotten our place.  It's the IPCC's job to remind us.

Answer 9

Not according to Al Gore.  He doesn't realize that glaciers are doing exactly what they're supposed to do in the age of retreat.

Answer 10

Yes, interglacial periods last for 10,000 - 15000 years, this one has occurred for 10,500 years. The climate record indicates that interglacials abruptly end after a rapid peak in global temperatures, however there are always those believe there own B.S. rather looking at the historical record.

Answer 11

NOOOOOO, stop using logic! The authorita of the IPCC must never be questioned. Next you are going to start mentioning the sun , as if that has anything to do with our climate. Or maybe you would like to mention that water vapor accounts for about 95% of the greenhouse gases. DANG, now I am using logic. We must be stopped. Do not think. repeat after me, "Al Gore is right. He only wants to help us, and maybe keep $100 million for himself. He really is just trying to help."