Yesterday, the temperature in New York was nearly 60 degrees. Today and tomorrow will also be in the mid to high 50’s and it will be above 60 degrees on Monday! We are in the middle of December, not April! Is global warming for real or is it just a hoax by the environmentalists to scare people?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
yesterday we break a warmth record in Montreal, and for the first time in MANY years we wont have snow for Christmas, we must stop hidinh our head in the sand, Global warming is a serious preoccupation and we must all take serious decisions to face it
I don’t know if the reason is global warming or not, although I suspect that it is. I do remember snow in the NW of England every winter, heavy snow. Now if we get snow during the winter its the exception rather than the rule, and if it does snow now its quite light. Our winters are so much milder than 30+ years ago
Also I would like to add, that many country’s are at long last facing the problem. Taxes on fuel are very high and driving is VERY expensive. However this is not the case in the USA compared to many other serious ‘trying to go green’ countries. The USA still has relatively very low fuel taxes. It really is hard to abandon our love affair with the car, but its a bitter pill that has to be taken.
The USA is such a large consumer of fuel that the efforts of Counties like Britain are a bit like whistling into the wind. Without a serious cold blooded effort from America we can achieve very little.
I don’t think my grandchildren will ever see snow in their home town.
Did the people in the 1920’s dustbowl blame it on global warming or did they just say “Gee, it hasn’t rained in a while.” Scientifically, global warming can only account for 1-2 degrees on average, not 30 degrees. Stop blaming every warm spell on global warming. It trivializes the real problems.
The earth runs in cycles. We happen to be in a warm spell right now. In about 30 years we should be back in the cold again. Global Warming needs another 200-300 years to really be felt.
I live in a cold area of my country, Spain, and I have the mountains very close and an ski station to about 50 miles… this year it is not still opened up.
I remember when I was a young boy and I played with my friends (battles of balls of snow). Now here it snows twice a year and it is very little if you think that I am in one of the coldest areas in the country.
Snow gone!
“Anonymous said…
The earth runs in cycles. We happen to be in a warm spell right now. In about 30 years we should be back in the cold again. Global Warming needs another 200-300 years to really be felt.”
30 years prior to the colder winters that I remember 30 years ago, records show it was colder still in winter.
I just heard on TV that in Europe we have the warmest winter in 1300 years!
The Earth’s climate is in a constant state of change. The current argument over climate change, if this is anything more than a short term statistical anomaly, is whether it’s man-made or part of a natural cycle (or several cycles). My belief is that we’re experiencing natural cycles and that the man-based influence is overstated.
Whether the earth is in a naturl cycle or not, the facts are irrefutable that the wasteful burning of fossil fuels over the last two hundred years is accelerating the gobal tempurature increase. Of course, my country is the greatest contributer of carbon dioxide emissions. Cut back on driving or air conditioning? Forget it. President Carter was bounced out of office for even suggesting it. I propose more beer and pina coladas to cool off!
Is the earth really round, or is that a joke by round-earthers? I firmly believe the world is flat. We need to give equal airtime to flat-earthers and round-earther in the media. Why should my flat-earth belief not be given equal time?
You may argue if global warming is man-made or not, but can we really afford not to take action to at least try and stop this global problem? Worldwide climat changes is a fact, and considering that we´re all on this voyage together, on the tiny, fragile vessel called earth, it would be wise to co-operate.
/P-J
I have lived up North all my life so a warmer winter would be nice for a change. But I am very very concerned about Global warming. It will wipe us out. I see no possibility of stoping it. money and greed will keep us burning fuel and keep warming things up until it is too late which is very soon.
But there is a solution. it is called Nuclear Winter. When the nuclear bombs go off they will put a cloud around the earth and cause winter even in summer time. So all we have to do is start a nuclear war and everything will be fine.
So pretty soon we will all be dead and it wont matter anymore. We will either freeze or get cooked or blasted into atoms by the bombs. Crazy world. the only solution I can see is cut the population way way down. There are simply too many people and no way to support all of them on the long term.
Maybe a pandemic bird flu will kill everyone off or the nuclear bombs or global warming. I dont think we can recover from global warming or a nuclear hallocast so we need to choose bird flu. We just have to stop making babies.
It looks like it will be a “green X-mas” in almost entire Sweden!? Something is wrong if you ask me…
Arlauk
Environmentalists DO try to scare people. However, the US National Academy of Science, and the academies of science of many other countries have signed a declaration, saying “acknowledge that the threat of climate change is clear and increasing”.
While it’s perfectly understandable to be skeptical about the claims of many “environmentalists”, it seems completely irrational not the trust the experts in environmental sciences. And they’re pretty much all saying the same thing; the Earth is getting warmer, it’s our fault, we have to do something.
Susan asked:
Is global warming for real or is it just a hoax by the environmentalists to scare people?
I am a scientifically minden person.
If I hear that “in the last 100 years the average temperature went up 0.6 C degrees, I am unable to correlate that with warm winters (who would perceive 0.6 C higher temperature), melting polar ice (it doesn’t melt if the temperature goes from -15 C to -14.4 C), claimed heat waves and everything else we hear about “global warming”.
The average temperature elevation either must be far more than 0.6 C in the last hundred years (than how come the environmentalist DON’T claim that?) or we are being brainwashed. It’s got to be one or the other. Considering that during the 60s and early 70s the exact same threats (the world is doomed unless we change our consumption appetite at the west), but that time it was based on global cooling (coming new ice age). Do you all remember? Do you remember the prediction that by the 90s New York will be under water? Because I do. And it isn’t.
In fact, no threat, none whatsoever came through what the environmentalists threatened the people of the planet.
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But let’s say, just for the argument’s sake that I am wrong and there is global warming. Did you read the recent article, that the Mars Global Surveyor recorded (CO2) ice cap loss during the last three years on the MARS?
Draw your own conclusion.
Gabor
Last week I went out dressed in Jeans and T-Shirt! About 15-20 years ago I always built Snowmen in dezember. I am coming from Germany.
Cappu
It seems those who disagree with the scientific community, which is very quite unified in saying that global warming is a big threat never actually argue the facts.
They just bring up unrelated issues and arguements to cloud up the matter with doubt.
All experts agree that global warming is a fact. What they argue about is whether it is caused by human activity or natural causes like increased cosmic radiation. Probably it is a combination. Since we cannot do anything about cosmic radiation we will have to do something about the human causes and reduce the CO2 emissions.
We see now tendencies that the ice in the arctic melts faster than predicted by even pessimistic climate models. And glaciers in Greenland moves faster than ever before.
The issue is not the average temperature, but rather the standard deviations. When you add more energy to a system, *especially when it had previously reached an equilibrium in a relatively closed setting*, you can increase the deviations in nonlinear fashion, even in the opposite direction. This is the premise by which the 2004 movie “The Day After Tomorrow” could have global warming causing a deep freeze.
The fact that world climate has behaved in nonlinear fashion other times, even within recorded human history, and then righted itself, may or may not be comfort. The distinguishing factor this time is the greater retention of energy, which is being measured.
What gets me is everyone wants to argue over Global warming and if it is real or not.. I’ll tell you what is real. Pollution.. over population and lack of respect for the environment. Global warming or not we need to clean up our act.. no pun intended. Being the dominant species of the planet is it not our responsibility to keep the health of the planet at its best? Everyone claims to be so smart, but yet all these great minds and great inventions do so little to help keep the planet clean and safe. The bottom line is the US wants to tell all other countries to do the right thing but our hipocritical government does much of nothing but line the wallets of the corporate greed machines they feed and watch out for. Plain and simple.. nothing will change until something drastic happens. It will take people frying in ridiculous temperatures for the corporate greed machines to finally say “Hey.. if all the consumers croak how will we sell anything?” Everyone needs to read about our history as a species.. History repeats itself.. daily. Take a look at the roman empire.. Greed.. corruption and no restraint = fall of Rome… Not just Rome.. many other empires.. I miss winter. I like the snow.. and because of the all the greedy, cheating crooks I may never see winter again. or is it a natural cycle?