If we are all affected by global warming how come its freezing in joburg.?

Question

If we are all affected by global warming how come its freezing in joburg.?

Answer 1

If it wasn't for the fact that "global warming" is in the news every day, no one would even notice that there was any change in the temperatures.

After all, what are the believers telling us?  That the climate has increased just 0.5 degrees in the last 100 years?

Answer 2

There is a difference between climate and weather.

Weather can vary up and down while climate steadily rises.

Answer 3

Weather.

Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere and trapping more heat over time globally does nothing to local weather variations.

Answer 4

global warming is basically happening everywhere, no matter where you go. maybe its the natural weather in joburg.

Answer 5

High latitude areas have warmed more than low latidudes due to the loss of ice, which causes changes in albedo (reflection of radiation by ice) Though it is still "freezing" in many places looking at global temperatures from the instrumental record a 0.8 C warming trend from 1856 to 2000 is shown. Read some peer reviewed journal articles related to paleoclimate to gain a better understanding of these processes. :)

Answer 6

climate change has happened for many years. before we were here, so global warming is fake

Answer 7

Because you don't understand the difference between the words GLOBAL and LOCAL.

If you are really interested in global, why don't you do some actual research on the theory?

Answer 8

Just one below average winter, which doesn't mean a thing.  It happened in 1982, 1991-1992, 1999-2000.  EVERY TIME global warming came back stronger than ever.  Proof.

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

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

As long as we keep making greenhouse gases in enormous amounts, global warming will dominate in the long run.  It's simple physics.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/di...