What does record cold, and record snowfalls, and a winter that won’t quit mean to mean to us country bumpkins?

Question

It means we have been led astray again. These are signs that there is really bad global warming and it is already here and it's much more critical than we used to believe. So does no cold and no snow and mild winters. In fact, we can’t even tell when this disease, so dastardly that it mimics good health, is over. Looking good is just a more dangerous stage of this disease our planet suffers from, a disease which has outsmarted so many of our climate experts (people with degrees and long research records) when Mrs. Stovall’s 4th grade class can figure it out. We bumpkins are trying to kill them.

Answer 1

It may mean a lot to you, but scientists understand it says NOTHING about global warming.

This is just one below average winter, which doesn't mean a thing.  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...

As long as we keep making greenhouse gases in enormous amounts, global warming will dominate in the long run.  It's simple physics.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/di...

The only people who have led you astray are the deceptive deniers of global warming.  Read all about them here:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/32482

Answer 2

True, increased snow doesn't necessarily mean that the climate in that location has gotten colder, it just means that more precipitation fell during that winter (which would still fall as snow even if temps were slightly warmer).  

Even regional cold weather for one year also would not prove anything conclusive about global climate trends, since even year to year variations are larger than the upward temperature trend.  

However, climate changes over time can be measured, as they have in California:

-- Cold days are fewer: The number of days with average air temperatures below freezing has dropped from 79 days to 52 days since 1911.

-- Nights are warmer: Night low temperatures have risen more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1911.

-- Less precipitation falls as snow: The percentage of snow in total precipitation has decreased from 52 percent to 34 percent since 1911.

-- Lake water is warmer: The average July surface water temperature has increased almost five degrees, from 62.9 degrees F. to 67.8 degrees F., since 1999. The lake's surface waters were the warmest on record on July 26, 2006: 78 degrees F.

source: UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center

Lake Tahoe State of the Lake Report 8/15/2007

http://terc.ucdavis.edu/stateofthelake/i...

Andin Colorado:

Climate Change and Aspen: An Assessment of Impacts and Potential Responses

http://www.agci.org/aspenStudy.html

• Aspen's climate has already changed noticeably in the last 25 years. "Temperatures have increased by about 3 degrees and the average number of frost-free days per year has increased about 20 days," the study said.

• Total precipitation decreased 6 percent over the last 25 years while snowfall is down 16 percent.

• Higher temperatures are inevitable even if the world's nations make progress on global warming. Aspen's temperature increases will range from 6 to 14 degrees by 2100, depending on how aggressive the response is to global warming.

• Most of Aspen's precipitation will fall as rain rather than snow. "Snowpack will decline, and peak runoff will occur earlier in the spring," the study said. "Summer and fall stream flows will be reduced, potentially declining below the minimum needed to protect aquatic species. The greater the temperature rise, the more extreme these effects will be."

http://aspenglobalwarming.com/westerncol...

"For the future, climate models indicate that if global greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, Aspen is projected to experience about 6°F of additional warming by 2100, giving it a similar climate to that of Los Alamos, New Mexico. If global emissions continue their rapid rise, Aspen is projected to warm 14°F by the end of this century, giving it a similar climate to that of Amarillo, Texas."

Answer 3

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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 4

I think you have it all wrong.  Global warming does cause record warm temperatures.  Global warming also causes record cold.  This 0.5 degree increase over the last 100 years is causing all sorts of weird weather.  And it's all man's fault!

Answer 5

Could it mean that bumpkins don't actually know doodly squat about climate and it is sheer idiocy to sit around keyboarding about it day after day thinking they are some kind of environmental scientists?