What do you global warming nutters have to say about this? China is having it's coldest winter in 100 years...

Question

In the midst of every one screaming global warming!! global warming!! China's average temp this winter has been 33 degrees feirenheight. Coldest in 100 years. Also the other day I was reading my local paper and it had this scientist that was talking about how the rocky mountains are going to start getting hardly any snow wich will drasticlly impact run off and hence resovoirs run empty. etc. I live in Washhington state and the mountains have the largest snow pack they have had in years. Infact they have had to close the passes on many occasions this winter because of all the snow fall. Seems to me like all you global warming alarmist are wrong , wrong, wrong. Only thing over heating is your little nugget brains.

Answer 1

You are confusing climate with weather. This demonstrates utter and complete ignorance of the topic. What does that say about your brain?

Fortunately there is a website you can go to and have your questions answered, that way you won't have to ask questions in here and reveal your ignorance any further.

Answer 2

I'd tell you my opinion but you're too set on running people into the ground.  You'll be lucky if we meet in person some day.

Answer 3

Simple: global warming refers to long term trends--not to short term seasonal variations.

We live on a very large planet--and you have local variations all the time, one place or another.  They don't affect long-term climate trends--in fact, usually have nothing to do with them.

The so-called "skeptics" are very predictable, though. Because they are too ignorant to know this, they invariably fixate on every snowstorm or cp;d spell --and all they are doing is displaying their own ignorance.

Answer 4

Meanwhile places like New Zealand are having the hottest summer theyve ever had!!! how does that gel with your theory?

Answer 5

They quickly become the "deniers".  Nothing to see here...move along, move along...

Answer 6

What part of GLOBAL don't you understand?

Answer 7

It is called Global warming and not China warming for a reason. It is warmer than average here in Texas right now for example. So you need temperatures from all over the world and then you need to average them and then even if it is cooler now you need to check the 5 year running average and the least squares fit for the data for the last 100 years and basically do statistics. Global warming is not some obvious problem that you can just see on your own. It takes lots of people gathering lots of data and doing lots of statistics. Kind of like cancer. Smoking causes cancer but lots of smokers never get cancer. One smoker living to be 105 and then dying in a car accident does not disprove that smoking causes cancer. You need statistics that show more smokers get cancer than non smokers.

Answer 8

Global warming is happening. The permafrost is thawing, you can grow crops in areas that were too cold before, robins are nesting in ALASKA, glaciers are melting, enormous icebergs are breaking off, polar bears don't have ice floes to hunt from, etc.  Get your head out of the sand.

http://environment.independent.co.uk/cli...

http://www.life.ca/nl/71/bears.html

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/AS...

http://www.reuters.com/article/environme...

Answer 9

You're confusing weather with climate, as did the 10 previous people who posted this same misconception.

Answer 10

its local temps, not global. if this was sustained for several years this argument may have some merit but currently it just a dumb argument.

can you tell the difference between local weather and global climate. if i, with my little nugget brain can why to you struggle with this simple concept o' wise one.

PS try looking at the global temps over a few years. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

a nice little animation

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/mpg/...

Answer 11

In reality, the temperature might rise a degree in a century.  Humans may have added a bit to that.  There is really no noticable effect of "global warming" today.  We are a degree warmer at most than a century ago.  So if it was 30 in China, maybe human influence caused it to be 30.5 degrees.  In fact, climate is far too complex to make any definitive statements.  Since human influence is probably far less than the natural variation, it is quite possible we are moving into a cooling trend.  I'm hoping for continued warming, for a while anyway.

Answer 12

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"The China Meteorological Administration said the weather was the coldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces, going by the total number of consecutive days of average temperature less than 1 degree Celsius (33.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

But it expected brighter weather ahead, though fog could become a problem and temperatures at night would likely still be below freezing, slowing the thaw.

"It is still necessary to remain alert for possible low temperatures, frozen rain, snow, freezing and heavy fog," said administration head Zheng Guoguang.

He added the cold snap had caught the country off guard, in an area unprepared for such heavy snow. But climate change could see more extremes in weather in China, Zheng warned."

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I think the administration head in the China Meteorological Administration summed it up best by stating "But climate change could see more extremes in weather in China."

Answer 13

I will answer this and try to ignore your insults and ranting. Frankly it does not really help your cause by seeming so hostile and it also seems as though you do not actually want to hear an educated answer because you have made up you mind already.

   However, you mention snow and huge amounts falling. Where does snow come from? From the sky. And how does it get in the sky? Evaporation. So, if it has been hotter than usual in a wet place there would be more evaporation and therefore more snow would fall in a cold place. I am in New Zealand and we are having a very hot summer and a drought....... mmmmmm, I wonder where all the water has gone....?

   Also, I think that if you are trying to be a climatologist then you should do more studying outside Washington state, maybe a little bit of heating would help your 'little nugget brain'