Have u felt significant change in climate? Is "global warming" campaign just a splurge?

Question

Have u felt significant change in climate? Is "global warming" campaign just a splurge?

Answer 1

Yes it is real!!!!  Some people like the previous answer don't take it serious.  I am over 50 years years old and I have seen a big change over the years.  I leave in Michigan and we are having cooler summers and warmer winters.  It may not matter so much right now but I believe my grandchildren could see a significance difference.  If people only care about today and not worry about tomorrow things will turn nasty with ice caps melting and the sea levels rising.

Answer 2

Yes.  It snows much less lately!

Answer 3

Personnally, yes !

I come from the South of France. When I arrived in England, life was COLD...and in 1982, when I was pregnant with my first child, I  remember the snow staying on the ground here, in Kings langley-Hemel, for 3 weeks ! (I had to walk to work, bicycle unsafe for preganant woman !)

We dont even get snow here anymore......

Answer 4

I think spring is coming

Answer 5

In many places it wouldn't be very obvious yet, since temperatures vary 40 degrees or more from night to day, and the temperature change so far has only been about 1 degree F.  

However, it is melting polar ice and raising sea levels, increasing evaporation and contributing to droughts, melting glaciers that supple the world's largest rivers, and disrupting ecosystems worldwide, particularly in the arctic and at high altitudes.

Global warming is often misrepresented as a mild change that will happen gradually between now and 2100.  However, local studies confirm that the changes that may be barely noticeable have been occurring for several decades now:

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article...

Warming trends in the Tahoe Basin:

-- Cold days are fewer: The number of days with average air temperatures below freezing has dropped from 79 days to 52 days since 1911.

-- Nights are warmer: Night low temperatures have risen more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1911.

-- Less precipitation falls as snow: The percentage of snow in total precipitation has decreased from 52 percent to 34 percent since 1911.

-- Lake water is warmer: The average July surface water temperature has increased almost five degrees, from 62.9 degrees F. to 67.8 degrees F., since 1999. The lake's surface waters were the warmest on record on July 26, 2006: 78 degrees F.

source: UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center

Lake Tahoe State of the Lake Report 8/15/2007

http://terc.ucdavis.edu/stateofthelake/i...

It's real, it's been measured in countless ways around the globe, the effects are already being felt.  We'd have to be pretty stupid as a species to continue on the same course.  My personal opinion is that our lack of reaction to global warming may disprove the theory that there is intelligent life on this planet.

Answer 6

Someone help please.  I am burning up.  The temperature has gone up one degree in the last one hundred years.  Must be global warming.  However, I recall that in the seventies the same lefties were warning us about global cooling.  We were facing a cold future.

Answer 7

I think that global warming is real and probably a threat, as most scientists say that it is.

The real problem is how to fix it.  Some seem to believe that it is through bureaucracy and regulation.  I on the other hand, prefer the idea of private property rights and free market solutions.  Individuals generally take better care of the environment than government.