Navy Pride
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We are having record cold temperatures and snowfall in history across the United States so the question begs to be asked...
A couple points:
1) a few days of cold in one area do not prove or disprove anything.
2) your poll lacks an option for a "maybe" type answer. I suspect, based on what I have read, that yes global warming is happening, and probably man made causes are contributing to it. However, like most of the people who will respond to this, I am not a scientist. I do not have the background to know for sure. I will not fall into the trap that many will of saying "yes" or "no" when I know full well I am not qualified to say.
of course, the science tells us the earth is warming. the causes are what's at issue.A few days.....Tell that to the people who are suffering through this.....
No maybe, no room for a cop out vote..........
We are having record cold temperatures and snowfall in history across the United States so the question begs to be asked...
A few days.....Tell that to the people who are suffering through this.....
No maybe, no room for a cop out vote..........
of course, the science tells us the earth is warming. the causes are what's at issue.
There are more and more scientists out there every day that might disagree with you.....Just go to google and type in global warming myth and you will see...........
they might, and they might not. you weren't exactly clear in your poll, however. so, my take is that global warming is real, but i'm not certain about the causes.There are more and more scientists out there every day that might disagree with you.....Just go to google and type in global warming myth and you will see...........
they might, and they might not. you weren't exactly clear in your poll, however. so, my take is that global warming is real, but i'm not certain about the causes.
which is the crux of the matter, in many opinions.I try and make it as simple as I can for my friends on the left........Its a simple yes or no......I did not mention man made or not...........
Well, it seems obvious to me that there have been many climate changes in the history of the world, fluctuating up, down, back up, and so on.I try and make it as simple as I can for my friends on the left........Its a simple yes or no......I did not mention man made or not...........
which is the crux of the matter, in many opinions.
Well, it seems obvious to me that there have been many climate changes in the history of the world, fluctuating up, down, back up, and so on.
So it would seem that “Global Warming” could indeed be happening, or it might be back to “Global Cooling” now. Who knows? Who cares? It’ll happen whether we try to do something about the weather or not.
Perhaps that is because they (as I) thought it might be asking a different question, as in:Well someone cares because I got almost 20 responses to this thread in a half hour...........
Given that the issue with global warming is that scientists are alarmed that the global average temperature might raise 1 or 2 degrees celsius over 100 years, a little snow is not enough to prove or disprove anything.
But there have been hints that it was coming. The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming — hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall.
But as far as winter storms go, shouldn't climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen — but probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter rainstorms. And while the mid-Atlantic has borne the brunt of the snowfall so far this winter, areas near lakes may get hit even worse. As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the Great Lakes has shrunk, which has led to even more moisture in the atmosphere and more snow in the already hard-hit Great Lakes region, according to a 2003 study in the Journal of Climate.
Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate Change - TIME
Last year in the PNW we had record breaking tempertures and snow so my question for you is how many years does it take? a few years ago the same scientists that are predicting global warming today were predicting a new ice age..........
The planet goes through warming and cooling trends. Since 1998, we've been in a cooling trend, prior to that was a warming trend. These things happen and have happened throughout history. Right now though, you've got a lot of liberals who are running around screaming the sky is falling and, of course, it has to be all our fault. Never mind all the money they're making off of it, it's got to be all our fault!
The fact is, there isn't any significant evidence that the current trends are anything out of the ordinary or that they have much, if anything to do with human activity. But don't tell that to the liberals who are selling books and carbon credits, they'd lose millions.
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