If Global Warming is real, Why does it not get Hotter every year? This may be a normal warming trend.?

Question

I am not denying that the earth 's climate changes, these are called cycles. I have only found FACT’s to sustain these are warming and cooling cycles.

There is no scientific proof that we are only getting hotter and will never cool down again.

If scientists can't even agree on what has happened in the past, imagine how much more difficult it is to figure out the future.

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/NATION/844993096/1002

Answer 1

Exactly, yes the earth's climate is changing but if you look at the research for the past 700,000 years scientific graphs show high and low temperature patterns similar to that of a heart monitor machine. About every hundred thousand years, there is a significant warming followed by a drastic cooling. It has been shown through scientific research that the Earth has normal patterns of heating and cooling. Over the last hundred years, the 1930’s and the 1950’s had warmer recorded temperatures than the present decade.

Answer 2

You are correct. There is evidence to support "global warimg" that occured millions of years before the industrial era, however it is more rapid today. I do think the global warming exisist and is part pheomnia and part due to pollution. We cannot deny that pollution is indeed killing the Earth, I mean look at what happened to our ozone layer.

Answer 3

What do you call this? Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight. The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small one all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

Answer 4

Weather happens on a yearly basis, climate however is collated over a period of thirty years and taken as an average. One cannot really tell of climatic change by the events of one year, but rather from a collection of years correlated together.  

In 2007, the weather in the United Kingdom for example was affected by an unusually low jet stream for that time of year (June), but can not be considered climatic change.

"There is no scientific proof that we are only getting hotter and will never cool down again."

The climate of the earth as a general trend is becoming hotter, rather then the entire climate of the earth. Although glaciers are retreating in certain places on the earth, they are advancing just as fast in other regions of the world.

Britain for example could be affected by melting ice caps in a way which would actually cool it down. The North Atlantic Drift (More commonly known as the Gulf Stream) moves a current of warm water to the South Western coast of the UK and increases the temperature by around 6c on average in the Summer in that region and 4c in more northernly parts of Britain. A mass of water as the product of melting ice caps could change the direction of this flow of water and cause the temperatures to be closer to that in Northern Europe or Canada.

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Different weather cycles have happened since the formation of the earth (ice ages etc.), it is not the fact that particularly the weather is changing at all dramatically compared to times alot further back in the time scale but that we have not existed for all that long in the stream of time and climatic changes could cause problems for our way of life.

Answer 5

yes it has gotten hotter, but never this hot

Answer 6

co2s effect on the atmosphere is so minimal, and the increase has been insignificant.  Also, the ability of co2 to warm the atmosphere decreases with every additional unit.  This is just part of a cycle.  There is no way anyone can tell what will happen in the future.  I believe we could start a cooling period at any random year.  

1998 was an el nino year, and so was 2006 I think.  Those were very warm years.  El nino can effect the global averages.

Answer 7

Because short term weather is "noisy" data.  A year can be unusually warm (1998) or unusually cold (1999).  But the long term trend is crystal clear - we're warming.  Two good graphs showing all that:

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

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

This situation is common in science.  Short term data that is noisy and unpredictable, while long term data is very predictable.  Radioactivity is one example.

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 8

This is a cut and paste from the link you posted. The guy is dutch. Lets just remember that the dutch have legal "coffee shops" and tolerate prostitution, same s*x marriage, and grow tulips. I bet from this list that there are at least 2 things that you hate with a passion but you still listen to the guy cos he helps you deal with your guilt.

"I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting — a six-meter sea level rise, 15 times the IPCC number — entirely without merit," said Dutch atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, one of the researchers quoted in the report by Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee."

sorry mate but you are spouting garbage. What do you mean "Why does it not get Hotter every year?" it does, and thats why people talk about global warming. Thats why part of the name is "warming" or it would be called "global the same as it was before"

  And you talk about these scientists that dont believe, well what about the scientists that said they will never work again on an ipcc report because it did not go far enough??

Answer 9

the immediate effect of global warming is not a total rise in temperatures everywhere and every time, but rather more power to the climate engines, that result in wilder fluctuations of temperatures, winds and precipitation globally, and there are bound to be some annual variations, but in the last few years we have seen more storms in the Caribbean, killing heat in central Europe and more floods everywhere.

Answer 10

the earth IS getting hotter. You feel that its always raining and snowing because the Earth is tilted at an angle that the north pole recieves more sunlight. And so the ice there melts faster and travels down the earth.

Answer 11

Why does the temperature go down some years and why did we get 30 years of cooling after 1940?  Why doesn't the rate of warming increase with the concentration of CO2.  The answer is that the climate is driven by things other than CO2 and CO2 might be doing virtually nothing to the temperature of the Earth.

Answer 12

No one knows with any certainty whether or not the Earth is warming.  Anthony Watts has organized a site survey of the 1200 to 1300 or so surface weather monitoring stations located across the U.S. and after reviewing one-third (so far) of the sites, found there to be less than 15% that meet minimum site requirements.  The result is that our stations are recording warmer than actual temperatures.  Over time, this has gotten worse, due to man-made heat collecting objects such as parking lots, buildings streets, machinery....etc. encroaching on the monitoring equipment.  

Bottom line:  Poor science due to poor data.

One may safely assume that there are similar problems with such monitoring in other countries.

Unfortunatley, The "man-did-it" global warming advocates have conveniently forgotten to mention this in their statements of so-called 'man-did-it' global warming.  Omitting such vital information has served to make the majority of people very skeptical of the whole issue.

And to make things worse....NOAA....the agency overseeing these stations....has done nothing to remedy the situation, supposedly due to budget restraints.

Answer 13

Hate to burst your bubble, but global warming is happening, and we're causing it.

Yeah, there have been periods of warming and cooling throughout history. But, we also have to look at the effect CO2 levels have on the temperatures as well.

Every year, the CO2 levels are getting higher and, in general, so are temperatures.

No connection?

I don't think so. Even if you're right, we've got to fix global warming anyways, because it's having catastrophic effects on all ecosystems, and we could be in big trouble in just a few short years.

Answer 14

Yes. Those who claim it's getting hotter every year must have found evidence to support this belief. There's another school of thought that purports the Earth is in fact going into the early symptoms of an Ice Age.