Global Warming?

[Cierra]

Do you believe global warming is true? Why or why not?

The reason I'm asking is lately I've heard/read things about people saying it's fake, made up by the government, etc.. I've always thought it is something we (the world) needs to be concerned about.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I will not be one of those people calling you crazy. It is a route to control the people. What better excuse to control all our ways of life from what we eat to where we go and add more tax revenue for the government on the false claim the world is sick and we need to take drastic measures to save it.

Not mention everything out there is saying the exact opposite about global warming.

 

[DrLeftover]

The Vikings that were raising sheep among the oak trees in Greenland a thousand years ago seemed to have thought Global Warming was a good thing.

 

[Webster]

...so much for a cooling Earth....

This past September was the warmest since records began in 1880, according to new data released by NASA this weekend. The announcement continues a trend of record or near-record breaking months, including May and August of this year.

The newly released data could make it very likely that 2014 will become the warmest year on record.

Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told The Huffington Post last month that although these temperature records are significant, they are just one piece of the data that "point towards the long-term trends" of warming. He cautioned against focusing too intently on any one month or year, but rather the broader scope of human-caused climate change.(Huffington Post)

 

[DrLeftover]

I guess it depends on who is working the numbers.

Illinois State Climatologist

Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Departures for 2014 for Illinois
Posted on October 3, 2014 by Jim Angel

Here are the monthly temperature and precipitation departures for 2014. September joins January, February, March, and July as much cooler than average months. For precipitation, we noted last month that we were regularly alternating between wetter- and drier-than-average months in 2014. That changed in September with two months in a row of wetter-than-average conditions.

http://climateillinois.wordpress.com/

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

...so much for a cooling Earth....

This past September was the warmest since records began in 1880, according to new data released by NASA this weekend. The announcement continues a trend of record or near-record breaking months, including May and August of this year.

The newly released data could make it very likely that 2014 will become the warmest year on record.

Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told The Huffington Post last month that although these temperature records are significant, they are just one piece of the data that "point towards the long-term trends" of warming. He cautioned against focusing too intently on any one month or year, but rather the broader scope of human-caused climate change.(Huffington Post)

It is so hot glaciers are growing at record numbers across the globe.

 

[DrLeftover]

ooopps

Climate change: Models 'underplay plant CO2 absorption'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29601644

 

[Webster]

It is so hot glaciers are growing at record numbers across the globe.

...you were saying, Liberty?

Although Glaciologists measure year-to-year changes in glacier activity, it is the long term changes which provide the basis for statements such as "Global Glacier Recession Continues". Some Skeptics confuse these issues by cherry picking individual glaciers or by ignoring long term trends. Diversions such as these do not address the most important question of what is the real state of glaciers globally?

The answer is not only clear but it is definitive and based on the scientific literature. Globally glaciers are losing ice at an extensive rate (Figure 1). There are still situations in which glaciers gain or lose ice more than typical for one region or another but the long term trends are all the same, and about 90% of glaciers are shrinking worldwide (Figure 2).

It is also very important to understand that glacier changes are not only dictated by air temperature changes but also by precipitation. Therefore, there are scenarios in which warming can lead to increases in precipitation (and thus glacier ice accumulation) such as displayed in part of southwestern Norway during the 1990s (Nesje et al 2008).

The bottom line is that glacier variations can be dependent on localized conditions but that these variations are superimposed on a clear and evident long term global reduction in glacier volume which has accelerated rapidly since the 1970s.

....but, anyway...please proceed, Liberty.