Since we are having one of the coldest winters ever have the Global Warming?

Question

theorist been singing a different tune?

Answer 1

No, they will never sing a different tune. This is a religion to them, more like a cult.

Truth is, for them, everything is caused by global warming.  No rain? Must be global warming.  Too much snow? Must be global warming.  Too many mosquito's? Must be global warming?  Too many hurricanes in '06? Global warming.  No hurricanes in '07, also, you guessed it, global warming!

Someone in the UK took the time to put together a list:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.ht...

Answer 2

Nope.  Just a cold winter, no big deal.

It happened in 1982, 1991-1992, 1999-2000.  EVERY TIME global warming came back stronger than ever.  Proof.

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

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

Answer 3

We didn't have the coldest winter ever, we had the coldest winter during the warming period. Global cooling is back and better than ever.. Go buy some heavy coats and heating systems that uses natural gases.

Chris P, I hope you get best answer, you made me laugh my *** off by that link!

Answer 4

Why? It's not a question of a single storm, or a single season being colder or warmer or whatever.

Ironically if the models and ice-cores of previous warm/cold cycles is any measure, the "warm period" will be distinctly colder in the US, and Europe, as the models and ice-cores suggest that the gulf stream could shut-down as the last of the glaciers melt.

These last melting glaciers "reboot" the cycle creating the conditions for a new Ice age, by shutting down the "gulf stream" in the oceans, - this seems to occur pretty rapidly, causing North America and Europe become cold and dry and spend a couple of thousand years accumulating light layers of snow over the upper 1/3rd of the US, and covering Canada.

It might only rain or snow a couple of inches a year but the snow never melts and just accumulates until you have massive ice-sheets - again - and the cycle repeats every 20-40 thousand years or so or has over the last few million years.

We don't know however what happens with as much CO2 and methane gets released into the atmosphere as is like to be released in the next few decades, there just hasn't been a historical period like the one we are entering - at least not in 50,000 years of human history and certainly nothing comparable in the modern era.

Again - here it wouldn't be such a big problem, if it was an Ice Age or a Warming Period if it wasn't for the fact that our systems of food-production and water distribution and commerce and where are cities and borders are , are predicated more or less on the idea that things stay more or less exactly as they have been. Is the United States willing or prepared to annex Canada when they refuse our companies "fair" access to wheat or whatever.

Are we prepared for a China that cannot feed itself to try and obtain control/access to the Himalayan watershed, Whose side do we take, India, China, Russia or Pakistan?.

How does India or Pakistan - for that matter continue to feed themselves if the Monsoons fail or arrive early or late or don't drop the proper amount of rain in the right spots.

Just ask farmers in the US how crop yields have been over the last few years, and you begin to understand that its not REALLY about politics, it's just that conservatives / Republicans - in particular - won't get around to acknowledging it until they have to start explaining to farmers why we can't extend their disaster relief for another year of drought, or explaining to industries executives why water  rationing in their manufacturing process is a good thing, or how they should have been smarter and started using less water...some time ago.  

And as far as doing what's right, politicians hold no real responsibility to the people so that's not really a problem now is it. At least not if you as long as you can afford to pay much more for whatever depends on a reasonably stable environment.

Answer 5

We aren't having one of the "coldest winters ever".

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/rese...

"The average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during December 2007-February 2008 (climatological boreal winter) was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

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The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the 16th warmest on record for the December 2007-February 2008 period (0.58°F/0.32°C above the 20th century mean of 53.8°F/12.1°C)."

Answer 6

This is a colder winter than the last ten years or so but no where near as cold as it has been. They're still singing the same tune because mankind refuses to do anything about it.