Global Warming!! Opinions?
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I do believe the earth is warming. But I also believe its a combination of all factors. El Nino, global warming, recovery from mini Ice Age. (Yes, we were in a mini ice age from the 1500's to the mid-late 1800's) It's all adding together. El Nino probably has the biggest factor. El Nino is starting to end. That with the perfect timing of a real cold front, we'll see lows close, if not below zero this time next week. A fairly normal winter will return.
The earth naturally warms and cools. We are in a warming cycle. But, how long will it contine to warm? Thats the question. How long till the next Ice Age? How much will the earth warm?
I guess right now, all we can do is play out part in the enviroment. Try and stay as green as possible.
The earth naturally warms and cools. We are in a warming cycle. But, how long will it contine to warm? Thats the question. How long till the next Ice Age? How much will the earth warm?
I guess right now, all we can do is play out part in the enviroment. Try and stay as green as possible.
Our period of sub zero temps is allmost a month or more early, we usually dont see -20 temps until mid to late Feb. We also have more snow allready then all of last season or the season before, but not the record snowfall that some news agencies have reported.
It is also unusual for the sub zero temps we had in Nov and Dec that we had this season.
It is also unusual for the sub zero temps we had in Nov and Dec that we had this season.
Global warming IS a natural heating process. It has happened before and there's nothing wrong with it...except we're making the process faster and the temperature has risen much higher than it has in the past.
The pollution we're pumping into the air adds to the ozone layer, which traps more heat inside, for whoever asked how that theory worked.
The pollution we're pumping into the air adds to the ozone layer, which traps more heat inside, for whoever asked how that theory worked.
Global warming IS a natural heating process. It has happened before and there's nothing wrong with it...except we're making the process faster and the temperature has risen much higher than it has in the past.
The pollution we're pumping into the air adds to the ozone layer, which traps more heat inside, for whoever asked how that theory worked.
The pollution we're pumping into the air adds to the ozone layer, which traps more heat inside, for whoever asked how that theory worked.
We just TIED the record high for January. That doesn't appear to me to be hotter than it has ever been.
We haven't shattered temp records.
Also, so is there a giant hole in the Ozone or is it thicker than ever..... I am confused.
The point is, YES we should be more conscious but it is not rising at an alarming rate as the media would have you believe.
London Ontario just had a 3 ft snow fall in 36 hours and it almost tied the record from 20 years ago for most snow fallen in such a short time.
Well, occording to a graph I saw, the peak of the temperatures recorded during other global warming processes were twice as small as our temperature now.
And it has definitely been getting warmer for me...A while ago, it was 65 degrees in the middle of DECEMBER.
ETA: The ozone layer has been getting thicker, btw.
And it has definitely been getting warmer for me...A while ago, it was 65 degrees in the middle of DECEMBER.
ETA: The ozone layer has been getting thicker, btw.
Having stood on retreating glaciers, I have no doubt something is melting them. The way I look at it is simple. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it traps heat. Since we are emitting it, it stands to reason that we are warming the Earth. If global warming does not exist, it is by blind luck that something else is canceling our CO2 emissions (increased plant growth perhaps).
Climate is a very sensitive thing. Erupting volcanoes (on the other side of the World) have made it SNOW in Vermont in the summer every so often. And the effects aren't always logical. Its thought that the Middle Ages' Little Ice Age was caused my MELTING of the icecaps which messed with the oceans a little to much.
Climate is a very sensitive thing. Erupting volcanoes (on the other side of the World) have made it SNOW in Vermont in the summer every so often. And the effects aren't always logical. Its thought that the Middle Ages' Little Ice Age was caused my MELTING of the icecaps which messed with the oceans a little to much.
Its all about money! Whatever the latest environmental fad is draws in money. It just happens to be global warming. In the 70's it was global COOLING (yes, cooling), 80's it was acid rain, 90's it was the ozone layer, and now its global warming. Money for politicians like Al Gore to not actually have to really work, but make big money on movies full of mistruths, and all sorts of non related organizations to make money on their own cause. All they have to do is mention global warming is the cause of their problem, and the government will give them money to keep paying themselves to do whatever they are doing.
The whole glaciers are melting idea comes from a half a dozen 'conviently' selected glaciers that are regularly measured. Add in the other 20 or so large glaciers across this world, and you actually find that overall they are growing, not shrinking. The climate changes over time as does everything. Eventually the sun will burn out and turn into a huge super nova and literally swallow the earth. That'll happen in another ~5 billion years. Not firing up my lawn mower this weekend certainly won't prevent that.
After all, the same scientists who believe in the ice age, came up with global warming. I find it hard to believe that the fire the caveman built to cook his dinosaur was really the cause of the ice age ending.
If you want an environmental cause, find something else like China. There are real problems there people can actually do something about. Humans have a huge impact on the environment for sure, but if you take the billions upon billions of dollars out of the global warming fad, you'll not hear a peep about it anymore. When was the last time you heard something about acid rain? Yeah its been a long time for me too
The whole glaciers are melting idea comes from a half a dozen 'conviently' selected glaciers that are regularly measured. Add in the other 20 or so large glaciers across this world, and you actually find that overall they are growing, not shrinking. The climate changes over time as does everything. Eventually the sun will burn out and turn into a huge super nova and literally swallow the earth. That'll happen in another ~5 billion years. Not firing up my lawn mower this weekend certainly won't prevent that.
After all, the same scientists who believe in the ice age, came up with global warming. I find it hard to believe that the fire the caveman built to cook his dinosaur was really the cause of the ice age ending.
If you want an environmental cause, find something else like China. There are real problems there people can actually do something about. Humans have a huge impact on the environment for sure, but if you take the billions upon billions of dollars out of the global warming fad, you'll not hear a peep about it anymore. When was the last time you heard something about acid rain? Yeah its been a long time for me too