global warming?

United States
March 26, 2011 2:50am CST
ok it is now almost a week into spring and it still feels like winter. I live in upstate NY and I can tell you this has been one of the coldest and snowiest winters in a while. I was wondering what the global warming nuts have to say about that
5 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
26 Mar 11
Strange as it may seem, heavy snowfalls and cold weather CAN be an indication of 'global warming'. If the sea is warmer than usual, more moisture is evaporated and carried by the atmosphere to fall as rain or snow. If there is more moisture in the atmosphere, there is more cloud and (especially in winter) less of the sun's heat reaches the ground to warm the lower layers of the atmosphere. This results in COLDER winters with MORE snow (and, sometimes, more rainy summers). The whole point about global warming is that it is GLOBAL. In other words, although your area may be cooler on average, in global terms, the average temperature of the whole earth is increasing. There is plenty of evidence to show that this is the case.
• United States
26 Mar 11
the last I knew global warming was the increase on the green house gasses as a resault warming the earth. you can't go changing the rules because your wrong. its not just where I live it is all over the US record breaking cold and snow fall and a fact I did not mention is the summer here was one of the coldest on record
• United States
31 Mar 11
The quick assumptions of any day of the year being definitive proof of global warming's existence or its nonexistence come from both sides. At least here in the U.S., back when Al Gore was the high priest of all things warming, the enviro crowd would collectively scream and shatter our windows every time a day was a single degree hotter than "average." We heard year after year that we were going to drown in the flood waters and that "global warming" meant a specific thing - it was getting hotter. So when we have colder days, the obvious reaction of some is to get in a good kick. As far as the ins and outs of any climate change debate, there isn't as much satisfaction in that as stickin' it to the Al Goreshippers. Personally, my only real issue with climate change isn't if it is happening or even so much if mankind is really causing it. It's whether or not I trust data compiled by the US and UN and whether or not I trust the book club meetings that serve as "peer-review" science. I do expect people to agree that 2+2=4. Who brings the equation to the table to begin with... that's another issue.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
26 Mar 11
Well I don't believe that global warming is really the effect of what humans done( it just hasten it). but global warming can do extreme left and extreme right. Meaning it can go extremely cold or extremely warm.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
31 Mar 11
Well, politics aside, opinions aside, the fact is that one day or one week or even one year of anything doesn't "prove" anything. We're talking about over ten-thousand years of weather patterns since our last ice age. On that gigantic scale, I don't even think you can use 100 years as a very accurate measure. Folks can measure ice cores, carbon in sea floors, rocks, etc, but there is no definitive way to tell if the blance will be upset by humans. It will be upset. That's just how it is. But by mankind? I don't know. I'm still 100% for cleaner energy and more personal responsibility, if only for pollution and conservation purposes, but I cannot buy into the hysteria - hysteria, by the way, that has been rearing its head since the 1970s, when the supposed top scientists of the day predicted we would be in another ice age by now. And hysteria that, according to Gore, should have us under water by now. It is happening? It's always happening. Our stability window is small and shaky. And that goes not only for weather but for life itself. Upset the balance in any one of a thousand ways and we could suffer mightily for it. But 99.999% of those things are out of human hands. Maybe we will one day have the technology to intervene with natural disasters, or to save Earth from impact, or to quash a biological threat before it spreads. But we panic about this stuff when it seems to be fairly out of our hands. That is said, of course, from my position that a lot of these climate change numbers are cooked in order to give politicians infinitely more power over people. I'm not much of a conspiracy guy. But I don't think that's conspiracy stuff. If history has taught us anything it's that men love to rule over other men instead of allowing mankind to rule itself.
@nangisha (3495)
• Indonesia
8 Jul 11
We don't have snow here because we only had two season here. Dry and rainy season, its usually changing every six month but last years in raining for almost a year and 3 month made many crop failure to harvest and price for vegetable goes up into triple or in certain item its ten times.Its made humidity really high and its not friendly to certain crop. Now we had dry season but its really hot now, honestly my city never this hot. I believe because this global warming we had to dealing with climate change. I just hope it won't leads us to famine.
@512771751 (1096)
• China
21 Jul 12
I think global warming really exists. My grandma told me that now summer is more hotter than before. And there are too much distrous things happen in recent years.