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Can someone tell Al Gore to head to Minnesota and explain to the people there what this Global "Warming" talk is all about??
Can anyone have Al Gore explain how come 6 ouf of the 10 hottest days on record were the early 1900s???
Can anyone explain why Global "Warming" is causing record low temps in Colorado, Wyoming, and other mountain states in OCTOBER??! Where is the "warming" part, Mr. Gore????
Here is the article: Print Story: Record cold for northern Minn.: 40 below on Yahoo! News (broken link)
You can't just look at a cold snap across the US and suddenly say that global warming isn't happening; the fact is that worldwide temperatures have gotten steadily warmer over the last century. Now, whether or not it is caused by humans is up for debate, but you can't deny that it isn't happening.
Clearly someone doesn't understand meteorology. Record highs and lows will occur in ANY month and on any day. You cannot judge the overall trend by just looking at yesterday's highs and lows or even last year's. Forty below is not a record for the state of Minnesota. It's been close to -60 there (I think the state's low is -58 or -59). In 1936, the adjacent state of North Dakota experienced -63 in February and 121 in June. That's four months apart in the same year! Perhaps we need better science education in this country, or at least people willing to think more scientifically.
When coming out of the ICE AGE the temperature will go up but it will take 100s of years. We will alll be long gone. We will still see record lows don't you think?
When coming out of the ICE AGE the temperature will go up but it will take 100s of years. We will alll be long gone. We will still see record lows don't you think?
I don't know when the green freaks will realize that this IS a natural cycle.
There's gotta be a better name for the way the climate has been acting other than "global warming". It seems the weather wants to go from one record breaking extreme to the other without depending on season. For instance, in 2007 rainfall exceeded 60" across much of Oklahoma for the wettest year ever recorded. A couple of years earlier it was quite unusally dry. We surely need to be better prepared for whatever extremes the weather ventures into in the coming years.
Lol.... doesn't matter what the weather is doing, someone is always attributing it to some new fad and line of thinking... give it several more decades and it will be something else...
Weather and climate are two different things. So are global and local. If people can't master that much, they're never going to understand any of it. Just keep in mind that the models for what gets called "global warming" imply greater and more frequent extremes. Higher highs...lower lows...wetter rains...drier droughts. A decrease in coefficients of stability, even when they manifest through all-time record lows, is (if anything) a sign that "global warming" is proceeding as predicted...
You can't just look at a cold snap across the US and suddenly say that global warming isn't happening; the fact is that worldwide temperatures have gotten steadily warmer over the last century. Now, whether or not it is caused by humans is up for debate, but you can't deny that it isn't happening.
Correction, warming is occurring on a regional basis, not a world wide basis. While they think it might be "global", no evidence currently supports the hypothesis of this being a "global" issue. Fact is, we don't really know what we know, but we know we have a lot of data to work out and see if we can figure out something.
Can someone tell Al Gore to head to Minnesota and explain to the people there what this Global "Warming" talk is all about??
Johnny, I apologize in advance if this sounds flippant or rude, but you should take the time to educate yourself on what global warming really means.
Global warming is happening on avg - the warmer avg disrupts established weather patterns. What that produces is climate change, often difficult to predict. This affects everyone, from farmers to utilities to insurance companies. It means wacky weather - everything from cold snaps, to heat waves and droughts, winter tornado outbreaks, and frequent "100 year" floods - basically the crazy weather we're seeing more regularly.
If you hate Al Gore, that's your privelege. You should add to your "hate" list a who's who of the CEOs of most major American corporations, utility companies, the scientific commuity, and now, even the current administration.
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