Why is it that if it is cold it is weather and if it is warm it is global warming?

Question

Why is it that if it is cold it is weather and if it is warm it is global warming?

Answer 1

One theory is that the Earth balances its' temperature out. so if it is hot some where in the world, it is equally as col some where else, etc. Personally I don't believe in this, but meh, we can't prove any theories anyway. So global warming causes both hot and cold days.

Back to the question... =[]

As scientists have apparently proven that the Earth's average temperature has risen, the public automactically blames hot days on Global Warming. As cold days go against the general concensus that the Earth's temperature is rising, the 'anomaly' is just written off as weather.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Now the hysteria is no longer over global warming but "climate change." I guess this new moniker was chosen for a little CYA since people are noticing that things aren't getting warmer everywhere (and Al Gore did already say that the debate was over, so you know.)

I  just wish most subscribers to global warming would cop to the fact that it's a belief that they are clinging to rather than a scientific argument they are buying. The vast majority of us, including me, are not qualified to even understand the data. Why is such a load of esoterica that the vast majority of us don't even know how to scrutinize being so heartily and readily accepted by people? And why are scientists not troubled by this trend?

The fastest growing group of scientists in the global warming debate are the skeptics. The only scientists invited to serve on international panels regarding man-made climate change (formerly global warming) are those who already sit in the "pro" camp.

Like I said, I am not qualified to speak on  the scientific data, I am not a climatologist, and neither are the millions worldwide suddenly losing sleep over their "carbon footprint." I find myself skeptical because it is all being marketed so hard by the  cynical "blame America first" crowd and people seeking to sell "carbon credits" which are a joke!

Check out the blog "planet gore" on NRO for more insight into the dubiousity of the academic argument for man made climate change.

Answer 3

Global warming does not stop seasonality.  It means the climate (think about it as the average the daily highs and low temperatures over 30 years) is getting warmer overall.  The average typically gets higher, and the lows not as frequent as they used to be.  The higher temps may get a little more frequent.  Just because it snows doesn't mean GW doesn't exist.  It just might not snow enough or stay cold long enough for ice to freeze in areas it used to always freeze.

Answer 4

When it gets cold it is global cooling and when it gets warm its global warming. What it all boils down to is that the weather and nature are always changing and people can call it what they want.

Answer 5

hey heres a hint  GLOBAL WARMING ISN'T REAL!!

Answer 6

The alarmist's side if full of abstract thinkers.  The reason why this is necessary to Gore's campaign is that he can have thousands of people who are neck deep in snow and ice, yet will believe him when he rants that they are getting warmer.  That is what it boils down to.

By-the-way-  Thanks for all of the messages to all of the people who say that they have learned from me.  I am so glad that so many of you see through the psycho-babble rhetoric being thrown by the other side...

Answer 7

I have never heard that assignment of cold and warm.  I don't know who you heard it from, but they have no idea what they're talking about.

Answer 8

Neat trick isn't it? Now they are working on their public campaign to start using the words climate change instead of global warming so that they can claim the variability of weather as part of climate change even as temperatures are going down.

Answer 9

Actually, some people blame global warming for colder weather too, although I'm not exactly sure how.

Answer 10

Its because the arctic is melting and the heat is going over there while the cold is coming to us but we have been breaking a few HIGH temp. its weird and KoNfUzZlInG Why does a capital I look like a lowercase l IlIl

Answer 11

Global warming causes the change in the weather. Global warming doesn't mean the weather will be hot.

Answer 12

its how they get people to sink their teeth into the lie.

Answer 13

I've only found 3 people in this section willing to hazard a guess as to the definition of heat.  It isn't easy for me to value their opinions about warming, Global or otherwise.  I know the people who are here during the week will be all over it, but Good Lord!  # people?

Answer 14

One calendar year of colder weather doesn't mean anything for global temperature trends. Small fluctuations happen all the time; that's what makes climate trends so hard to keep track of. But one colder year against the previous warming trends doesn't really constitute evidence against global warming. If this keeps up for two or three years, maybe it might mean something.

Answer 15

Cause global warming is a scam!

Answer 16

BECAUSE NOW THEY ARE TURNING IT INTO A BUSINESS ... B.S.!!!! ...EVERY NUT JOB COMING FROM UNDER THEIR ROCK TO JUMP ON THE GLOBAL WARMING TRIP...........

Answer 17

If someone is claiming that global warming is causing today's or this week's or this month's or this winter's hot or cold temperature, then that someone would not be a climate scientist. Particularly if you are talking about a specific area.

Skeptic argument:

"It was way colder than normal today in Wagga Wagga, proof that there is no global warming."

"Does this even deserve an answer? If we must "

Answer:

"The chaotic nature of weather means that no conclusion about climate can ever be drawn from a single data point, hot or cold. The temperature of one place at one time is just weather, and says nothing about climate, much less climate change, much less global climate change."

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10...

  First of all you could not feel the difference in temperature that scientists say has happened over the past 100 years.  They only say the temp has risen 0.7 C degrees in 100 years, or about 1.3 F degrees.  They didn't say winter would be 10 degrees warmer at your house this winter.

Nevertheless, that 1.3 F rise is enough to melt the ice caps and glaciers and have other effects.  In the Arctic, the temp has risen over 3 C degrees.

Skeptic argument:

The earth has had much warmer climates in the past. What's so special about the current climate? Anyway, it seems like a generally warmer world will be better.

Answer:

"I don't know if there is a meaningful way to define an "optimum" average temperature for planet earth. Surely it is better now for all of us than it was 20,000 years ago when so much land was trapped beneath ice sheets. Perhaps any point between the recent climate and the extreme one we may be heading for, with tropical forests inside the arctic circle, is as good as any other. Maybe it's even better with no ice caps anywhere.

It doesn't matter. The critical issue is not what the temperature is, or may be, or will be. The critical issue is how fast it is moving."

"Rapid change is the real danger. Human habits and infrastructure are suited to particular weather patterns and sea levels, as are ecosystems and animal behaviors. The rate at which global temperature is rising today is likely unique in the history of our species."

"This kind of sudden change is rare even in geological history, though perhaps not unprecedented. So the planet may have been through similar things before -- that sounds reassuring, right?"

"Not so much. Once you look at the impact similar changes had on biodiversity at the time, the existence of historical precedent becomes anything but reassuring. Rapid climate change is the prime suspect in most mass extinction events, including the Great Dying some 250 million years ago, in which 90% of all life went extinct."

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/1/...

Skeptic argument:

Global warming has been going on for the last 20,000 years.

Answer:

"It is true that 20,000 years ago the temperature was some 8 to 10° C colder than it is today. But to draw a line from that point to today and say, "look, 20K years of global warming!" is dubious and arbitrary at best. "

"If you have look at this graph of temperature, starting at a point when we were finishing the climb out of deep glaciation, you can clearly see that rapid warming ceased around 10,000 years ago (rapid relative to natural fluctuations, but not compared to the warming today, which is an order of magnitude faster). After a final little lift 8,000 years ago, temperature trended downward for the entire period of the Holocene. So the post-industrial revolution warming is the reversal of a many-thousand-year trend."

"A closer look at today's trend, within the context of the last 1,000 and 2,000 years, makes it even clearer that today's trend is striking -- opposite to what one would expect without anthropogenic interference."

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12...

Go to the link for a more complete picture.

Answer 18

Because I suppose when it gets hot your brain does not work too well, and you start being delusional.

Answer 19

lol

good point

Answer 20

thats like asking why is the ice age colder than weather and warm weather not global warming. global warming is obviously an unnatural super heating of the earth due to the deterioration of the ozone layer by pollution and yes, a little b/c of cows and oh natural toxics. you should read up on something before asking a silly question.

Answer 21

it just means that the ozone layer is thinning and the temperature becomes unpredictable and weird and eventually it will rise significantly

Answer 22

Well. As you know, you're a great observer of people's cliches.

I guess we're all guilty for having a One Track mind.

Answer 23

Cold weather can be a result of global warming, or it can be a result of el nino. la nina effect.

But how can global warming make it cold?

When we have large air flow moving out of the equatorial zones, up through temperate zones and into arctic zones, of course there is only so much space in the arctic. As air piles up on top of the air already there, the air already there must leave. We call that an arctic high pressure area.

The bigger the volume of hot air pushing north, the more polar air must push south.

Eventually that process does warm up the arctic too. But  there is a lot of cold air up there to be shoved out.

We also notice that when a big storm is heading north, along its west flank it is pulling down a lot of cold polar air, that counter clockwise movement around a low pressure area.

Push and pull, those storms  move warm air to the poles and bring cold air out of the polar area.

That is weather.

Answer 24

if ur in the uk global warming will affect the gulf stream that keeps britian warmer then most places because of global warming the balance will be affected and thus affecting the gulf stream making britain colder it will ice over and merge with the north ice cap.

Answer 25

Because some parts of the world is frozen, and other parts of the world there is always hot dry weather there!! Global warming is effecting the weather patterns for the entire world, so it does not necessarily mean that every place in the world would be cooked, because of global warming!! Watch the weather channel, and you might find out that I might be right!! Take care!!

Answer 26

its dumb.