If global warming is really happening, why do I still have to dress warmly in late May?

Question

I live in Maryland, and it's still chilly. It's almost June, and I'm still having to pull out the long sleeves and jacket! Where is my global warming? Is it REALLY occuring?

I just wanna wear my skirts and flipflops and be warm. :(

Answer 1

Look up thermohaline circulation. I've posted it bout 50 times answering these exact same questions over and over.

Answer 2

That's really a good question.  i've asked that myself several times!  i think that the weather is changing, become very "tropical".  eg. windy, sudden showers, one day sunny, next windy and rainy..  I live in Europe and it's the same here.

Answer 3

Global warming is all a SCAM !!!!  All you liberal hippie tree huggers need to wake up and be opened mined and listen to both sides of the party instead to the way left...... There are a pile of facts that Al gore is wrong about, it's all about MONEY.

Answer 4

Be sure to read the questions at the end!!

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> Into the wild green yonder

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> May 11, 2008

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> By Walter E. Williams - Now that another Earth Day has come and gone,

> let's look at some environmentalists' predictions they would prefer we

> forget.

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> At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel

> Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside

> nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for

> mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said,

> "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough

> that it will not soon be reversed."

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> In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, former Vice President Al Gore's hero

> and mentor, predicted a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the

> 1970s... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death."

> Mr. Ehrlich forecast 65 million Americans would die of starvation

> between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have

> declined to 22.6 million. Mr. Ehrlich's predictions about England were

> gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England

> will not exist in the year 2000."

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> In 1972, a report for the Club of Rome warned the world would run out

> of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and

> petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992.

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> Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said Americans

> were using 50 percent of the world's resources and "by 2000 they

> [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them."

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> In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The

> World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000."

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> Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "civilization

> will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken

> against problems facing mankind." That was the same year Sen. Gaylord

> Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75

> and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."

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> It's not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers

> have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced

> there was "little or no chance" of oil being discovered in California,

> and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In

> 1939, the U.S. Interior Department said American oil supplies would

> last only another 13 years. In 1949, the interior secretary said the

> end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight.

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> Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the

> U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year

> supply of natural gas. In fact,, according to the American Gas

> Association, there's a 1,000- to 2,500-year supply.

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> Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making

> predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and

> millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government

> policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity?

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> When Mr. Ehrlich predicted England would not exist in the year 2000,

> what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent

> such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the Interior Department warned we

> only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should

> President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think

> environmental alarmism is any more correct now the tune has been

> switched to manmade global warming?

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> Here are a few facts: More than 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is

> the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the

> greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees

> Fahrenheit. Most climate change is due to the orbital eccentricities

> of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural

> wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all

> human sources combined.

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> Walter E. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist and a

> professor of economics at George Mason University.

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Answer 5

It's still chilly in Atlanta.  At least I don't have to run the air conditioner yet!

Answer 6

This week we broke the record high temp by 4 degrees where I live. Does this mean that maybe global warming is about "global" trends and not "local" fluctuations?

Answer 7

IT'S ALL HYPE !!  IT'S RIDICULES TO THINK THAT THE TEMPERATURE WILL STAY THE SAME YEAR AFTER YEAR WITHOUT A VARIATION. THERE WILL BE COLDER TIMES AND THERE WILL BE WARMER TIMES-THAT'S LIFE. AL GORE IS TRYING TO MAKE MONEY AND A LIVING, AT OUR EXPENSE. THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD NOT TAKE CARE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING OUR PLANET CLEAN. I THINK RECYCLING IS GREAT. WE NEED TO DO OUR PART-NOT HAVING THE GOVERNMENT IMPART AND CONTROL EVERYTHING WE DO !

Answer 8

For those of us who live in cold (but what SHOULD) be warm climes...don't fret.  We could all use a little global warming to get the blood circulating but that's just never going to happen.

However...sooner or later (this year later than sooner) things will warm up the way they should.

For 'Instant Relief' just hang out with some global warming enthusiasts...they're all full of hot air.

Answer 9

The earth as a whole is increasing in temperature, but a global change of a few degrees will not have an equal effect on every area of the planet.  Some places will still have colder than normal periods.

Answer 10

From my understanding Global Warming doesnt mean that everything will just get really warm.

It means that the weather will get more extreme.

Witch is caused by Warm weather.

Hurricanes, Tornades, earthquakes, etc.

(they usually dont happen in winter do they?).

Will become more frequent and more violent.

Just look at the hurricane season.

And how many Tsunamis there have been.

(Im pretty sure those types of weather are caused by a warmer change in the ocean water)

Answer 11

Global warming is increasing the "average" (not every day) temperature over the entire globe only about 0.15 C per decade.  There will still be winters and both warm & cold days in different parts of the world.

Answer 12

Oooooooookaaaaaaay...

Answer 13

Wow! I love the answers you got so far. NOT! The AGW believers just try to claim oh it doesn't work that way, due to the fact they really don't want to try to figure out HOW the climate works, since if they did they'd realize they're wrong.

And the ones that tried to support you all just use CAPS in their answers, making it annoying to read what they wrote.

I know it's been a cold spring up here in MN too. Shoot the official start of Summer is only a month away.

I know some believe that Summers last longer in the fall, but as long as I can remember 43 years of living in MN that we've always had an Indian Summer the first two weeks of October. Oh and the official start of Fall is September 21st. Winter solstice is December 21st. Spring is March 21st. These dates have been set back in the middle ages or even longer ago than that.

Edit: Dr Jello your answer wasn't up when I started writing this.

Answer 14

The government wants you to drink PROZAC to control the panic attacks provoked by the global warming scam.

Move to Miami, FL.

My 2 cents.