Isn't the earth supposed to rise 1 degree per century?

Question

In most of the graphs I checked, it seems to have done so.

Answer 1

Dr. Stephen Hawking said it would reach 450 Degrees F and rain Sulfuric Acid during our lifetime.

If this is true, and it should be because Dr. Hawking is a very smart person, we should see temperature increases in the 20 degree F range each and every year!

Answer 2

the earth is not following the rules any more

Answer 3

'Supposed to'?  What does that even mean?  Are you suggesting that every century over the past 4.5 billion years, the planet's temperature has risen 1°C?  I guess that explains why the current average global temperature is 45,000,000°C.

If you look at the ice core data, you'll see that the only time the planet warms 1°C in a period of 100 years is when it's undergoing a serious climate change (for example, entering or exiting an ice age).

http://globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:I...

http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precaut...

Here's the data over the past 10,000 years.  Not only did the temperature not increase by 1°C per century, it didn't change by 1°C total over that 10,000 year period (until now).

http://globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:H...

Answer 4

Actually, this winter is the coldest on record for the last 100 years.  And not only that, it was WARMER in the middle ages.

not to knock Dr. Hawking, but I really don't think that's gonna happen.

Answer 5

Sometimes.  Sometimes more, sometimes less, sometimes it gets colder.  We don't really know why, so we don't really know what it is supposed to do.

Answer 6

Temperatures go up and down, and there's evidence to show that it's been both warmer AND colder than what it is today.  As an example, we know that up until around 1875, the Hudson River used to freeze over EVERY year, for about 300 years.  The same thing used to also happen to the Thames River in England, where they used to have the "Frost Fair's" every year, up until around 1815 or so.  We also know that the tree line in Northern Europe used to extend much farther north than it does now, around the 1200's (So obviously, it was warmer than today).

There's also evidence that when the "Little Ice Age" started around the late 1200's and early 1300's, the planet had warmed MUCH faster in a single century than the much hyped 1 degree of today, so again, you don't need to buy into this Global Warming Craze of today.

By the way, a little side note, Mt. Kilimanjaro, show in Al Gore's video, THE SNOW IS BACK!!!!

Answer 7

No, it has not warmed 10 degrees since the year 1000 for example.

Unfortuantely past warmings did not happen this fast, so we're taking the planet into entirely new territory.

Here's one data point on current vs. historic warming rates:

New Research Confirms Antarctic Thaw Fears - Spiegel Online

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk...

"...the Pine Island Glacier has shrunk by an average of 3.8 centimeters annually over the past 4,700 years. But the Smith and Pope glaciers have only lost 2.3 centimeters of their thickness annually during the past 14,500 years. Satellite measurements taken between 1992 and 1996, though, show a loss of 1.6 meters in thickness per year on the Pine Island Glacier -- a figure that represents 42 times the average melt of the past 4,700 years."

Answer 8

i think a lot of people have seen the back-to-front version of the Ice Age Temperature changes graph, i.e. showing it going back in time from left to right. that's the only explanation i have for all these people who keep stating that we are still 'coming out of' an ice age. if you look at it closely, you will see the sharp peak temperature at the end of the ice age (in our case 10000 years ago) followed by a series of drops and smaller rises until the earth's biosystem 'thermostat' finally gets the planet back down to the 'best' temperature, i.e. the next ice age.

http://globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:I...