My car got stuck in the snow on my way to a global warming seminar. Can anyone explain?

Question

2 days ago it was -10 degrees F. I woke up this morning and there was 5" of fresh snow on the ground. When will global warming start showing me signs that it's for real?

Answer 1

Yes, I can explain.

It's called winter.

Answer 2

Can't claim any knowlege on the matter, but reading your question made me laugh out loud......It takes  a lot for me to laugh out loud while alone at my computer.

Good job. :-)

Answer 3

It's not just going to happen overnight, obviously.  If you've read the paper recently, there have been some startling statistics about record-breaking highs this year.

Answer 4

You must live in the Chicago area. I know what you mean about wishing that Global Warming would actually make for constant milder winters.

Answer 5

Thanks for a good laugh.

If global warming amounts to a degree or two, what would be the effect (on average) on winter days that otherwise would have been 12 below?  You won't notice much.

On the other hand, human agriculture has adapted over hundreds of years to subtle microclimates, so change is not beneficial.  Redistribution of precipitation patterns will also challenge human adaptation to current water supplies.  For example, what happens when the Himalayan glaciers supplying 2.4 billion people in Asia are gone?  What happens to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Denver as snowpack and water supplies in the Colorado Basin dwindle?  

Challenging human agriculture and water supplies will threaten survival in some places, challenge economies in others.  So you'll still be cold in winter, but that won't be your biggest problem if your money is no longer worth anything or basic services in our fragile modern civilization such as food deliveries stop altogether.  Past human civilizations have all passed.  What makes ours magically invincible?

Answer 6

Certainly... The current "Global Warming" panic is a bunch of BS invented by a looser politician for his own political and financial benefit (AlGore)

THERE IS NO HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING!  The average temperature and climate of our planet fluctuates up and down by several degrees over the centuries, and it has happened for millions of years all by itself, with no help from the Human race.  The planet may be going into another warm spell, but it has NOTHING TO DO with humans!

Answer 7

ok.well u wont get any signs of

global warming cuz its not true..

think about it for a while.

remember when they were talking about

"global cooling"?there are some people

that want the government to establish more

laws to slowly lose are freedom.

Answer 8

winter may be?

Answer 9

Not Guilty!

global warming

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)

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Answer 10

Yeah you don't know how to drive. Quite simple.

Oh do you ever come on and post when it is 110 degrees?

No, and the reason being is GW is not a snapshot of a day or a season.

Answer 11

It's not real--just the earth's natural cycle.  In the middle of Ice Ages...... We'll probably have another giant glacier over our heads in 20-30,000 years.......

Answer 12

You have encountered the annual phenomena termed WINTER. I have added a link to help you better understand it's meaning and another from NASA to show you the average GLOBAL temperature rise.

Answer 13

You obviously were attending the wrong Global Warming Seminar.

These swings in local or global weather are expected by older people who have seen it. Somehow or other people who are less than 60 years old have only lived in a period of extremely stable climate, which some scientists say is an anomaly in itself.  The last few years in my area of North Texas we have seen several years of extreme drought, warmer temperatures, broken in 2006 by one of the wettest early summer periods in history.

We are also beginning to approach a very high Solar Max on this cycle.  It's interesting that in the early 1950's North Texas went through a very similar extended drought.  It also was in a period that was followed by a very high Solar Max.  NASA is expecting a similar or even higher Solar Max in 2011-2012.  Is this coincidence?  It could be, but it is too insignificant a period or observation and correlation to trust this connection.

And so, if it was cold when starting to your meeting, this would have just been a local anomaly which should be expected.

In direct answer to your question. You didn't have chains on your wheels like people from Buffalo always keep in the trunk of their cars. Next time try chains.