If in 10 years 1998 is still the "warmest" of the last century, will you question man-made warming?

Question

Assuming CO2 emissions do not decline?

Answer 1

The enviro-wimps are backpedaling.  They say it isn't "global warming" anymore... it's "global climate change".  They say that some areas will get colder while others get hotter - and some areas will stay the same.

It's pretty tough to take them seriously.

Answer 2

One year means nothing . Long trends paint a more true picture and since 2001 , the trend for temp on the Planet has been...... A COOLING trend !!!

Answer 3

Absolutely. Not that any of the neo-luddite, hippy, greenie, anarchist sheep will though...

Answer 4

My answer is;

Man did not Make "Global Warming".

Global Warming is a natural occurring flex of the planet. ie. . .

What happened after the Ice Age?

Does Man's activites effect the climate of this planet?

Or does Pollution's only effect the lives of Animals, Birds, and Fish?

So I do not bother with man-made Global Warming.

I do question though, Why we would deficate on what we eat?

Hope my anser helps

Answer 5

I don't need to wait 10 years, I already question it.

Answer 6

My attitude is wait and see how the research develops, that we don't really understand the consequences of global warming/AGW/climate change yet, call it whatever you like.  I don't think a one year spike in temperatures or a trend of several years proves or disproves anything-and chew on this for a while: if one of the arguments against GW/AGW is that global temperature readings and averages are inaccurate, how exactly would the conclusion that 1998 is the warmest of the last century lend any credibility to the debate for the skeptics?

My outlook is that regardless of the outcome of the debate about global warming and mankind's influence on it, we don't have any choice but to develop alternative energy sources for all sorts of reasons from political to economic and the momentum is building there; if GW is significantly influenced by the burning of fossil fuels and political and economic demands are causing us to shift to other sources of energy anyway, does the debate about AGW become more academic than practical?

I think so.

Answer 7

Is it really that important, I mean really, important that nobody believes in global warming?

or that it is man made?

whether we believe in global warming or not, we still need to do something about the air quality.

Answer 8

Do you remember last winter? It was the coldest winter I can remember. Our state (Michigan) was close to running out of salt to melt the snow, they said on the radio one more snow day and there wouldn't be any more salt to clean up the roads.

Don't believe it just yet.

Answer 9

Succubus wrote

"Your information is outdated, 1998 is not the warmest year on record, 2006 is; from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007... "

Your source disagrees with you:

"The 2006 average annual temperature for the *contiguous U.S.* was the warmest on record..." (emphasis added)

Then Succubus wrote:

"From NASA; 2005 Warmest Year in Over a Century

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environ... "

And yet, these three separate datasets say 1998 was the warmest on record:

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

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t...

http://www.remss.com/pub/msu/monthly_tim...

I would say 1998 is the warmest year on record globally.

Answer 10

It should be questioned now as it does not exists. It is a farce.

Answer 11

I think I might.

Answer 12

No.  1998 was an outlier that was really far off the trend, I'd be looking at the trend, not each individual year to determine whether there is warming or cooling.

Answer 13

Im pretty sure i wont mate, coz it doesnt take 50 years for the effects to take place it happens over a longer time span....... global warming in a natural thing that has been happening since the origin on the earth, however we humans are simply speeding up the rate of change...

Im not sure if you are aware but we are in a time called the quaternary, currently the holocaust i think its called its been spanning over the last 2 million years... anywho basically teh quaternary can be described as a period of time where climate changed dramatically and rapidly repeatedly so we are still unsure of what exactly is going on, and if it is still in fact going on.. one thing i know is that we are still coming 'out' of a recent ice age and that the average climate is still trying to reach some point of normality, so these increases in temp are natural but are occuring faster because of our recent explosion of cfc's and other harmful greenhouse gas contributing chemicals..

The point i think im tryin got make here is yes, i will still believe in man made warming, i will stil lbelieve it in 30 years if 1998 was still the warmest year, but i can aknowledge that its not all us humans contributing.

Answer 14

Your information is outdated, 1998 is not the warmest year on record, 2006 is; from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007...

From NASA; 2005 Warmest Year in Over a Century

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environ...

From The Weather Underground:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMas...

If that graphic doesn't speak volumes I don't know what does.

Answer 15

A major major climate modeler from Germany announced a couple of month ago natural variations will mean ten years of cooling.  In other words ten years of "noise"

Jim Hansen the other day said that if the sun remain inactive we will get at the most seven years of "cooling". In other words seven years of "noise".

The fanaticals (the ones who keep saying even if global warming is not true that does not gives us the right to keep polluting the earth), and the ones with big egos will never admit that they are wrong.

Answer 16

1998? warmest? what a load of rubbish!

“It is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world before here”

January 21st 1661 Samuel Pepys

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_S...

"as was never known in this world before"!... the odd thing is that the Co2 concentration was only about 280 ppm at the time... How DID they do it?

Answer 17

I won't question human pollution affecting climate.  I don't care if the planet gets hotter or colder I think that it's stupid that we have the technology to create transportation that is more efficient and will drastically improve both the environment and general health of the population and we are letting the "horse-whip" oil companies hold the people back.  How long can we c**p in our test tube before the waste kills us all ?