If global warming is now...why is the snow line getting farther south in CA ?

Question

Why is China enduring it"s worst storms in 50 years? why is there snow in the Middle East for the first time in decades

Answer 1

its all part of the shifting of weather...here in NY we usually have tons of snow..but its only slushy and possibly icy. it might also be connected to wind patterns and el nino.

Answer 2

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Looks like you have you eyes open. Can’t say that about to many people in society today. Most of us walk around with blinders until a catastrophe hits, then we wake up pretty quick. Unfortunately we go blind again a few months later…

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We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

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Answer 3

"La Nina cooling in the second half of 2007 (Figure 2) is about as intense as the regional cooling associated with any La Nina of the past half century, as shown by comparison to Plate 9 in Hansen et al.  (http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1999/1999... and updates to Plate 9 on the GISS web site. Effect of the current La Nina on global surface temperature is likely to continue for at least the first several months of 2008."

It's Winter.  We're in a strong La Nina cold cycle.  

That's all weather, having nothing to do with climate (long term trends).

Answer 4

You need to do some actual reading about global warming.  Global warming does not say snow and winter will end.  It is a scientifically supported concept that predicts a 1-5 degree centigrade increase in GLOBAL temperature will cause major shifts in GLOBAL weather patterns.  This means some areas will get more snow/rain while more traditional wet areas will get less.  For instance, while it is snowing in the Middle East and China's coastal regions, many places in the Alps are getting no snow at all.

Perhaps you would actually like to try and understand what you are trying to disprove?  Or is ignorance more your style?

Answer 5

When the temp is below -10 you get less snow,,,,,

The warmer the air the more moisture it can hold.

Answer 6

It was Global Cooling in the hottest area but Global warming in the Coolest area.

Answer 7

global warming is expected to have an average global rise in temperatures by a few degrees, but it is also expected to make the world climate a lot wilder.

what you describe is exactly the phenomenon of wilder climate, more extremes.

Answer 8

It is silly for people to think that they know what the weather will be in the years to come. We have a couple hundred year of written data, we have 50 years of being able to see weather that will get to us in a few days. We are learning from ice and land cores. As someone told me once, YOU HAVE A FEW DOZEN PHOTOS OF A PERSON, HOW DO YOU TELL WHAT THERE LIFE WAS LIKE FROM A HAND FULL OF VACATION PHOTOS. Weather is what we have day to day, Climate is what happens over several hundred years, we humans live for about 70 and most of us think the world started the day we were born and will stop the day we die

Answer 9

You are not suppose to be asking questions like this.

Answer 10

global warming doesn't just make the weather warmer. it changes the air over oceans as well. this leads not to warmer weather, but haphazard weather patterns, which is why we get these changes now. the actual temperature rising is one of the least noticeable effects of global warming we'll have.

Answer 11

The AGW believers will probably report this question

Answer 12

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

enough emotive arguments more show means squat. levels of snow are subjective. this nasa data shows the earth is warming.