Global Warming question?

Question

This time last year it was roasting outside. You could get a sun tan easy. All the girls were wearing next to nothing around London, it made lunchtime walks around Marble Arch fantastic.

Anyway, as it's below freezing every night and cold most of the day, does that mean we've beaten Global Warming? I mean the alarmists would have us believe that 1 hot day is proof that we all need to pay more tax in one of the smallest CO2 dumping countries int he world, therefore a whole month of temperatures lower than the same time last year MUST be proof we've beaten it.

Answer 1

no we've not beaten it but it has gone to the extreme ends. some amount has been curtailed due to prohibition of freon and using liquid ammonia in a/cs and fridges

Answer 2

The weather you are experiencing is exactly what climate change is about. Weather is the interaction of water vapor and cold and warm air.

The Co2 theory is seriously flawed. Why would heat trapping gases be a concern while we generate heat close to boiling temperature on the surface of the planet with buildings and treat the symptoms with emissions?

Go to the following link to see a heat source not being discussed and it is generating extreme heat almost 365 days a year. http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h...

Emissions are not good for us and we aren't discussing the toxicity associated with the emissions.

This weather is very alarming, my area had bees and blossoms last week and it is below freezing with a foot of snow this weekend. If we lose the pollinators, we lose our food supply.

Answer 3

It wouldn't surprise me, lets face it this "global warming" is  getting blown all out of proportion to enable the government to tax more things and make us pay extra for doing the things we enjoy!

Answer 4

Last year was excessively warm but even with the colder weather this year we are still warmer on average over the last 30 years. I heard them talking on the radio this morning about hawthorn, commonly called the May flower. Well they want to rename it the April flower as for the last 30+ years it has flowered in April.

Gobal warming is more noticeable to the likes of me as I work outside with nature everyday. Plants are acting in different ways, flowering earlier/later, overlapping with plants that do not normally flower at the same time. Deciduous plants are no longer losing their leaves and more of our native species are suffering because of the lack of frost. Many seeds need a freeze to crack and allow germination, hellebores for instance. These plants will cease to spread as they do now. Look around you at some of our native trees. Several oaks in my area have died in the last few years. They cannot cope with the shift in weather patterns. Too sad :(

We are supposed to be heading for a heatwave summer this year.

Answer 5

Global warming isn't our fault.. the temperature rises and falls naturally, and the levels of co2 follow suit, but with an EIGHT HUNDRED YEAR TIME LAG. And that's only because as it gets hotter, the co2 dissolved in the sea rises into the atmosphere - the temperature of the Earth takes 800 years to get deep enough into the sea for this to happen on a visible scale :) x

Answer 6

Hmm, I think you need to do more research before you can earn that name...  Global Warming does not just raise temperatures everywhere, constantly, and evenly.  It affects the climate balance, so some areas can get colder months, or cold months when it would normally be warmer, etc.

Answer 7

The world has been evolving for billions of years and you will not live to see the result of any change of importance.

Answer 8

no......... thats what global warming does!!!!! it changes all the weather patters!!! i live in South Africa! where we have a sub-tropical climate meaning summer rains etc etc! our climate has dramatically changed!!! we even had snow here last year!!!! as well as winter rains!!! thats the change of weather patterns!!!! Global Warning has taken over!!!! weather patterns all over the world are experiencing changes in their seasons!!!!!

Answer 9

global warming is  a joke and it looks like you've figured it out on your own.

about thirty years ago scientist were sure that the next ice age was coming..now global warming. governments around the world have more important things to worry about.

Answer 10

london has so many cars with so much traffic, it's one of the largest CO2 dumping countries!

Answer 11

trust me, we are far from beating global warming

Answer 12

The hypothesis for how use of fossil fuels would lead to enhanced global warming was proposed in 1896 --http://www.lenntech.com/greenhouse-effec...  --I am a geologist and have been aware of the concept of a "runaway greenhouse effect" since the late 1970s.  My knowledge of the facts does not include the diligent research a scientist should perform before weighing in on a legitimate professional debate.  From an armchair perspective however, it isn't hard for me to observe the arguments and figure out which side does the best job of using the data to formulate a hypothesis.  The book I read in the 70s talked about a runaway climate change that would result from a buildup of gases in our atmosphere; gases that alter the amount of the sun's energy that would be absorbed or reflected by our atmosphere.  The author's hypothesis was that the intitial effect would be an internal reflection, trapping radiation that would otherwise have been reflected out of our atmosphere.  The "trapped" radiation would lead to a warming with subsequent increases in temperature, humidity, and cloud cover.  Eventually, a global cloud cover would lead to a decrease in radiation reaching the surface and a significant decrease in global temperatures.  The scariest piece of his hypothesis was that the changes would be subtle and hard for the general public to buy into, up to the point that the cycle would be irreversible for all practical purposes as far as the human species is concerned.

I've observed two things over the years.  1) Scientific research validating the 1896 hypothesis; and 2) The predictable response of a society in denial for political, economic, or other personal agendas.  

My questions for those in denial are what, who, and why.  What are the benefits of denying that global warming is influenced by man-made activities?  Who stands to gain from that denial?  Why would the general public trust more in a political debate versus scientific debate?  The "flat earth" mentality seems always to be led by a loud voice that stands to lose power over the people.  The quiet voice is driven by those seeking truth, whatever it may be, and often under personal attack.

Answer 13

You cannot prove or disprove Global Warming.  It is largely a hysterical religious belief stemming from the premise that humans are evil.

Answer 14

Global warming is the biggest hoax of in history.  Peddled by power hungry politicians who want you to believe that you must vote for them so they can save us, greedy media tycoons who love a good scare story and the poor sods who have been falling for the hype for years.

See this link for full details:  http://inel.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/dec...

Answer 15

As far as I'm concerned, it just goes to show that all this 'global warming' business is a load of old tosh. I've said all along that it's simply down to nature - cyclical  events which are entirely natural occurrences.

Answer 16

Well now,  You have just discovered the fallicy of all global warming theory.  Nothing on this earth is more unpredictable than the weather.  We have a saying where I live........."only fools and newcomers try to predict the weather"  Come let us reason together.  Let us search history for the answer.  20 years ago the same crowd that screams Global Warming now were predicting another Ice age.  They are just as correct now as they were then.  The planet will warm.  The planet will cool.  There will be another Ice age.  It will be preceeded by a warm period which we are now in.  These cycles repeat over thousands of years.  The cycles repeated at least 5 times before man walked the planet.  Geological FACT.  Man emerged at the end of the last ice age.  You better believe that man can NOT control the next Ice age.  It will happen in spite of what man and his puny ego can do.  Most of what we call the temperate lattudes today will be covered in ice.  The weight of the ice and the corresponding reduction of the oceans will produce major continental drift.  The survivors if any will awake to a whole new geography of the world.  Al Gore and all his foolish followers cannot change one inch of this.  The magnetic field of the earth may change polarity during this major change.  That has also happened before and is long overdue geologically speaking.  We're talking back to the stone age here if humanity survives.  It's not gonna happen in the next 10 years,  It may not happen in the next 10 generations but it WILL happen.  And there is NOTHING puny man and all his creations can do about it.  That's it!  Bottom line.  The Earth is a living planet and it heeds it's own life and cycles.  Man is no more than a passenger on the surface of it.

Answer 17

I think it may be to late to beat it. We keep saying we must save the planet, the planet will be fine it will just kill us of and then heal itself. Maybe we should start saying save ourselves.

Answer 18

Global Warming is a myth.

Answer 19

GW is an untested, unproven theory at best! Al Gore's trying to make a few bucks selling some stupid idea of "carbon credits" just another way to tax people and business.

Answer 20

There is NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING!

The Weather people said it was a hoax!!

Answer 21

If youre from a cold climate country, chances are  youre not gonna feel the effects as much as we do from the south. If the temperature rises there in your country, it would still be cold because it was already cold from the start. Its only on rare occasions that it gets really hot in there. In here where the temperature used to be moderate; cool before, we feel drasrtic effects of the sun's burning heat as the temperature rises even more. Its really burning. I hope I brought clarity to you and I do hope that you be more aware and more literate about this issue.

Answer 22

Maybe you should read the media more regularly.

It helps if people understand the EL Nino/La Nina phenomena.

There’s been a fair bit of coverage about the La Nina we’re currently experiencing. In the  Nino/La Nina phenomena warm and cool pools of water and air move from one side of the Pacific to another, this also has the effect of shoving atmospheric bodies of moisture and the jet streams around. I simplify obviously. El Nino is the warm part, La Nina is cool part. Their effects are quite well known going back to the 19th century. (El Nino’s the more famous one.)

We’re having a cool La Nina at present, which has been responsible for the heavy American and Chinese snowfall and last year’s floods in Africa.

The Mail website article on this La Nina was headed ‘2008: The year the world will cool down.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...

The TimesOnLine headline was: ‘La Nina threatens to wreck world’s weather’

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...

The Telegraph’s was: ‘Blame the soggy summer on La Nina’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...

The USA’s media are currently focusing on how La Nina years usually have more hurricanes.

Put “La Nina” into Google news and you’ll get many more media reports on the current La Nina. Use quote marks.

More on El Nino/La Nina generally.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/elnino...

This La Nina will fade away later this year. That means there’ll be another El Nino along sometime in the next couple of years.

Answer 23

i think gobal warming is down to government experiments out at sea and they blame it all on u

some is giving everyone thumbs down so i gave you all a thumbs up

Answer 24

That does not make up for an entire summer worth of the hottest temperatures on average. That just doesn't balance out. Wait until this summer and see how the weather changes appear. Watch the frequencies of storms, the temperatures. You will see that global warming definitely isn't gone. And for all of you that say that scientists are looney for believing there's an ice age coming. Please learn to think, history shows that the planet had things happening the same as they are now before the ice age came the first time. An extreme warming, followed by an ice age. It's a cycle, the sad fact is, this time we are cutting the amount of time it will take to happen.