Is global warming really global cooling? Or is it just a play of facts?

Question

Somewhere, I read that global warming is actually global cooling. The oceans are pulling in the Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, and only emitting a very small amount. Then, the oceans heat up, and add even more precipitation. Then, snowfall cools the earth down. Is this fact or fiction?

Answer 1

You've got an awareness of some variables, but to understand climate change fully you need to know a LOT more.

For starters:

- We don't know when the oceans will stop absorbing CO2

- The oceans emit 90gigatonnes of C per year, while absorbing 92.

- Out of the 7Gt/year we emit, only 2 are absorbed by oceans (and plants i believe), 2 to an unknown sink, and 3 to the atmosphere.

- CO2 doesn't cause oceans to heat up

- If we have a rise in melting of ice, it can reverse huge conveyer belts of water movement, meaning vast drops and rises in some temperatures

- You need cold conditions for snowfall. Even if it falls as snow, it needs cold conditions to settle.

I only gave a very simplistic overview with likely flaws (im no expert obviously). However, as you can see the scenarios you are mentioned are either too simplistic, or actually wrong. Its good to see people doing research on it though.

Answer 2

It really depends on who you ask. I have watched documentaries where everything about global warming is a lie. Other documentaries claim everything is true and that we will die in twenty years from the heat of the Earth.

Right now, I don't believe there is a definite answer.

Answer 3

According to the *new* global warming (oops, I forgot, it's now called "climate change" instead) theory, when it's colder, man-made climate change is responsible. When it's warmer, man-made climate change is responsible. Sounds kinda fishy to me.

Answer 4

There is no global anything.  The world is changing naturally and has done so for millions of years gone by and will keep doing so for millions of years into the future.  It is called nature - don't let people make you think differently.

Answer 5

The earth has hundreds of built in systems which moderate the weather. If not, then the earth would have burned up during any of the past warming stages.

Answer 6

Global warming leads to global cooling.  When polar ice melts, the ocean levels rise and submerge heat-retaining land.  Cold water from freshly melted ice stop the currents that bring warm tropical water to the temperate regions of the world and we begin to experience a global cooling.  If large amounts of water start to freeze on land, then you will begin to see glaciers creep across the land, not only covering the ground with ice, but also reflecting much of the sun's radiated heat back into the atmosphere.

Answer 7

The religion of Global Warming is all about fear-mongering Humanity into lifestyle change. It's junk Science based on an "agenda rather then facts. Is the planet polluted? Yes. Do we need to find ways to clean up the planet and save resources? yes. Is the sky falling, are we all going to die in the next 10 years? NO!  Stop the propaganda so the real solutions to Humanity's problems can be solved with "real- Sciences and facts.

Answer 8

Global warming panic mongers will attribute anything to Global warming.  Even colder temperatures.  When we got strong hurricanes, they were a cause of Global Warming.  When we got fewer hurricanes, another cause of Global Warming