If there's so much global warming, why is it so freakin' cold out?

Question

I've been waiting for the global warming to show up since the fall and am getting pretty impatient. I gave all my coats to goodwill because I wouldn't need them anymore. I also had my heat turned off for the same reason. What's going on? Help me Al Gore, you're my only hope!

Answer 1

global warming dose not mean that your local whether is going to get hot. it just means that as a whole the world is warming.

Answer 2

You are obviously confused between a day to day temperature (weather) and a long term average (climate)

And why do you thing that global warming means the end of temperature variation or temperature extremes? did somebody tell it to you from a reputable source or did you just make this up?

Answer 3

The answer is simple.  Anthropogenic global warming is a myth.

The planet is in a natural cycle of warming and cooling all the time.  As recently as the 70s, we were headed for an ice age.  30 years later, it's global warming.  Give it another 20 or 30 years, and it'll be an ice age again.

That said, we should do all we can to reduce pollution, not because it will stop 'global warming', but because it's good for our environment, which is good for us and all other living things on our world.

Answer 4

because depending on where you live the seasons change, that doesnt mean everywhere in the world is going to be steaming hot

Answer 5

john

global warming

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…

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

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

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

If you interested I offer several DIY alternative guides to walk you step by step threw Greener living, how to run your car on alternative fuels and being self-sufficient, at agua-luna com or

www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

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Answer 6

You have to first express yourself rightly.

About Global warming nor u can stop nor I

so wait and watch If required take additional steps to save our Planet.

Answer 7

The reason for this is because the sunlight is coming through holes in the ozone layer. This sunlight melts the ice caps and glaciers. The water coming off of the glaciers and ice caps is disrupting the gulf stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. If the gulf stream is disrupted too badly, we could find ourselfes in a new ice age in a century or so. I know it sounds really wierd, but its true. lmao

Answer 8

well global warming includes local weather too... dont listen to these uneducated people... global warming is a myth.

my science teacher, very smart yet very stupid to listen to gore.. he says global warming effects local weather too... so umm.. MYTH

Answer 9

Climate change in the words of a scientist who showed this on TV over 10 years ago using computer modeling (BTW, they use these programs to predict our day-to-day weather and very accurately) "It's not going to be what whateverybody thinks it is.  Whatev er weather you're having now, you can expect more of it and stronger.."  

So if you're having cold, expect it to be getting a bit colder over all.  Hot?  Expect it to be a bit hotter.  Wet, dry, storms, clear - whatever.  

You've seen too many movies about dramatic changes.  The changes are small but the overall effect grows exponentially.  Just like the rust colored air you breathe in any city over 80,000 population.  It doesn't go from clear blue to rusty air overnight.  It goes slowly over time but the effects multiply to where now large numbers of children are born with asthma.  Lung disease is accelerating. etc etc.  Climatre change works the same way.  First we loose species and the dim-witted say, "So what?" not realizing that the species are living organisms that the earth no longer supports due to our fiddling with our environment.  By the way, we happen to be living species too and like they only one that knowingly is about to commit suicide but won't stop to understand or prevent it because we refuse to believe it.  Rather funny really.

Answer 10

This Winter has been one of the coldest I can remember in 10+ years. The ponds and creeks in my home state of Kansas, were frozen over solid enough to walk on for three months. I haven't seen that happen in over ten years. We are at solar minimum and we have had  La Nina conditions for most of last year. Low cloud cover increases when the sun is less active and less solar energy reaches the oceans. This can be seen most dramatically in the tropics here:

http://www.ssmi.com/rss_research/climate...