Is present chilly climate due to global warming?

Question

Is present chilly climate due to global warming?

Answer 1

No.  You're asking about weather (local, short term variations), not climate (long term trends that determine what survives in your local ecosystem, including the food that you eat).

As noted by NASA, NOAA, etc., Northern Hemisphere temperatures are temporarily being affected by a strong La Nina cooling cycle:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2...

The El Nino / La Nina cycles do temporarily overpower and mask the underlying gradual warming trend, but they do nothing to stop it.

The progression in scientific understanding is explained in detail by a physicist/historian on this site:

www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm

Impacts of Global Warming

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/impac...

The Discovery of Global Warming

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index...

The author Spencer R. Weart is Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, USA.  His own informed conclusions regarding global warming are posted here:

http://www.aip.org/history/climate/SWnot...

Here are summaries of some of their latest research into carbon cycle science and what to do to mitigate the damage, which is being conducted across more than a dozen federal agencies:

http://co2conference.org/agenda.asp

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sa...

Answer 2

The short answer is no.  

However the original question posed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was what is causing the climate to change.  which many parts of the world has been observing.  They have responded that it is highly likely that this climate change is caused by global warming.  And there is nothing in their logic which says that the warming has to be equal across the world.  In fact they specifically say that it will not.

We will all have to wait until about this time next year when all the data for 2008 from around the world has been collated before we know whether global warming is still continuing.

Answer 3

no it is due to the ice age we have been in for the last 3 million years

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

its time to warm up.

Answer 4

Overall climate change of a radical sort can produce higher highs and lower lows.

Answer 5

Global warming is not a blowtorch that eliminates winter. It's a small but steady increase in AVERAGE temperature that will cause great damage if we do nothing.

For a short time, in some places, winter weather can overcome global warming. But, long run, over the whole Earth, the AVERAGE temperature is increasing. NASA data:

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

We need to do something about that.

Answer 6

Huh?

This is about the dumbest question I've seen as yet.

Answer 7

No, it's due to winter.

I included a Wiki link so you can read up on it.

Answer 8

No, I would think it is more to do with AO and TSI than anthing else.  We have scene a trend over the past year in global temperatures, but it is not up.  From NOAA (not GISS)

2006  1    0.3474

2006  2    0.5245

2006  3    0.5419

2006  4    0.4532

2006  5    0.4903

2006  6    0.5799

2006  7    0.5560

2006  8    0.5516

2006  9    0.5601

2006 10    0.5856

2006 11    0.5726

2006 12    0.7095

2007  1    0.8314

2007  2    0.6254

2007  3    0.6077

2007  4    0.6728

2007  5    0.5261

2007  6    0.5078

2007  7    0.4676

2007  8    0.4685

2007  9    0.5289

2007 10    0.4991

2007 11    0.4484

2007 12    0.3975

2008  1    0.1793

Will it continue?  Who can say.  What can be said that in the past year, the Earth has shed about .6'C, over a relatively smooth curve.  Was there a change in GHG? Yes, but they increased.  Was there a change in aerosols, nope.  The past year defies the models, where did .6'C go?????  Who dunnit?????   Even Hansens rosy scenario C did not predict last year.

Forget GISS,  seems all they have been doing is CYA work.  It's sad.

Answer 9

No. "Global Warming" is a scam. It's just a natural thing. Didn't the globe warm up after the ice age? Hmmm.....

Answer 10

Yes, global warming causes global cooling also,

global cooling causes climate change, and it is all caused by 8 years of Bush/Cheney. There was no climate change when Bill was driving.