With no increase in temperatures in over 10 years, do you still believe global warming is a problem?

Question

or do you see that so called "global warming" was only a problem in a given period of time? Now what ever caused the short warming in the 1990's is gone and we don't have to concern ourselves with it again?

Answer 1

its global not USA warming. so you need global and not US data.

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

and es the 5 year global average has been increasing.

Answer 2

I wish it was global warming here. It's May, but the weather tells me it's February.

Answer 3

Looks like the "5 year mean" has been up since 1984!

Answer 4

I do think it will, and also don't. More people are starting to say that in the next years the temperatures might come back to normal. I think that the seasons are changing and climate is changing.

Answer 5

yes ulness we stop it but the earth with dies in the near 2025

Answer 6

I believe in climate change and man is one of the contributors. I believe this because I believe in the second law of thermodynamics. We are burning 10 million barrels of oil each day plus coal and natural gas. The variables are to many to work into good computer models, but just because the AVERAGE temperature is about constant does not mean big swings can cause disasters.

Answer 7

I guess that historic levels of arctic ice melt and the loss of the Ross ice sheet in Antarctica are merely a coincidence. Some people are going to have to see beach front property in Utah before the lights go on for them. Really sad.

Answer 8

Thanks for that Dr Jello I haven't laughed so much in ages

your link not only is the U.S. "not global" but it clearly shoot your own question in the foot,

(a) look at the 2006 temp on your list

(b) look up 'mean' in a dictionary

Last time I looked 2006 was within the last ten years

Answer 9

No, it is a complete scam. Weather changes, that's just how it is. If it is so warm, why on May 3 is it still in the 30's at night?

Answer 10

The top of the page you reference shows that you're trying to confuse "Contiguous 48 U.S." temperature with global temperature.  Nice try.  

You know full well that 2005 was the hottest year globally, and 2007 was tied for second place:

The year 2007 tied for second warmest in the period of instrumental data, behind the record warmth of 2005, in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analysis. 2007 tied 1998, which had leapt a remarkable 0.2°C above the prior record with the help of the “El Nino of the century”. The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean is in the cool phase of its natural El Nino – La Nina cycle. Figure 1 shows 2007 temperature anomalies relative to the 1951-1980 base period mean.

The global mean temperature anomaly, 0.57°C (about 1°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 mean, continues the strong warming trend of the past thirty years that has been confidently attributed to the effect of increasing human-made greenhouse gases (GHGs) (http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007... The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2...

Thanks for giving us yet another opportunity to show how faulty and misleading this particular claim is, and for allowing us to set the record straight on global temperatures and trends.

Answer 11

Temperature has increased.  Scientists KNOW this, and people here are smart enough to understand why this is true.  Here goes.

Temperature is governed by two factors.  Short term weather and global warming.  The weather can go either down or up, global warming only goes up.

When weather randomly goes up with global warming, we get an unusually hot year like 1998.  When weather goes down the year is a little cooler, but still warm, like 2007.

So how can we sort these factors out?  By averaging over a longer period than one year.  Five works pretty well.  You can see the result, the red line on this graph.  The zigzags of the black line are weather doing its' thing, causing individual years to be above or below the red line.

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

But the red line goes inexorably up, as global warming increases the temperature.

Thanks for the question.  Starred.

EDIT - You've mistakenly cited the US temperature instead of the global temps.

Answer 12

considering most got all bent out of shape over the nonsense without every having a real clue as to what was supposed to be taking place, I would say its a safe bet that they won't change their mind until  they see the ice flow coming down their streets form the next ice age.

Answer 13

You know all you "so called non-believers" like your some kind of agnostic crusaders are getting everything so confused and mixed up.  With that said global warming is not that the earth will be 130 degrees tomorrow morning and every day after that, but rather weather pattern are going to get crazy and yes to Mr. I Believe, global warming can even trigger a ice age.  So why don't all of you idiots get off your high horses and stop trying to use Jesus as your excuse for the way multinational oil corporations and governments have behaved.  Also stop saying  that "there is no way humans can alter this planet" !